The Solutions Focus

The Solutions Focus
Author: Paul Jackson
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey International
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2011-02-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1904838316

The revolutionary yet radical alternative—the solutions-focused approach—to discovering what works at work.

Brief Coaching for Lasting Solutions

Brief Coaching for Lasting Solutions
Author: Insoo Kim Berg
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2005-10-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0393712494

Like so many helping professionals today, coaches are discovering that the most effective treatment plan is not always the one that takes the most time. Perhaps more so than in any other situation, coaching allows practitioners to quickly forge collaborative relationships with their clients and help them maximize their performance in work and in life. Brief Coaching for Lasting Solutions teaches coaches how to conduct conversations that are most useful to clients in achieving their goals within a brief period of time. The authors, two of the leading practitioners of the brief coaching method, masterfully guide readers through the steps of this process–from the initial meeting to follow-up sessions to troubleshooting setbacks–while illustrating essential skills with ample case examples.This book is written for coaches who want to reduce the time it takes to provide effective coaching while making the best use possible of resources the client brings to the table. At the same time it is written for the benefit of today’s clients, so many of whom want to avoid coaching that is time-intensive and costly, and instead seek coaching that is organized, efficient, and affordable.Whether your clients seek a solution to a specific problem or strive toward a more general life goal, this invaluable resource will put you on the path to brief coaching success.

Brief Coaching

Brief Coaching
Author: Chris Iveson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2012-03-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136503099

Brief Coaching offers a new approach to coaching by considering how the client will know when they have reached their goal, and what they are already doing to get there. The coach aims to work towards the solution rather than working away from the problem, so that the client's problem is not central to the session, but instead the coach and the client work towards the client's preferred future. This book employs case examples and transcripts of sessions to offer guidance on: looking for resources rather than deficits exploring possible and preferred futures examining what is already contributing to that future treating clients as experts in all aspects of their lives. This practical guide includes summaries and activities for the coach to do with the client and will therefore be a useful tool for both new and experienced coaches, as well as therapists branching into coaching who want to add to their existing skills.

Team Coaching with the Solution Circle

Team Coaching with the Solution Circle
Author: Daniel Meier
Publisher: Solutions Books
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2005
Genre: Coaching (Transportation)
ISBN: 9780954974916

Daniel Meier shows you how to use the positive power of Solutions Focus to work with teams in business and organisations. Meets the needs of meets the needs of both the experienced coach and the manager looking for practical steps. Applying the positive power of Solutions Focus to working with teams, Daniel Meier shows you how to: Apply Solutions Focus methods with groups and teams Choose and use the eight steps of the SolutionCircle Become an effective team coach - as a manager or external resource Engage team members in finding useful action steps Use challenges and difficulties in the team to build progress.

The Coaching Solution

The Coaching Solution
Author: Renée Robertson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780990938040

Based on the author's firsthand experience during the merger of telecom giants MCI and Verizon, and the implosion of WorldCom, this book teaches how internal coaching programs, when executed properly, can retain and develop talent in the face of rapid change and many unknowns. Part autobiography, part how-to manual and workbook, The Coaching Solution provides corporate managers, executives and coaches with a highly personalized, step-by-step approach to building an effective coaching program. As a former talent management executive, Robertson shares her best practices and lessons learned. Her goal is to promote coaching inside organizations and to guide those interested in building high-performance employees, teams and organizations.

Coaching Plain & Simple: Solution-focused Brief Coaching Essentials

Coaching Plain & Simple: Solution-focused Brief Coaching Essentials
Author: Kirsten Dierolf
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2009-03-30
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0393712508

An easy-to-read, pocket-sized primer on brief coaching basics. This is a highly practical and condensed introduction to solution-focused coaching, offering a simple and clear structure for coaching sessions that is easy to learn. Content is illuminated through exemplary dialogues from real coaching sessions and bullet-point toolboxes for greater variety of choice. Narrative explanations create a helpful framework for understanding the general idea of coaching and the practicalities of the solution focused approach. Several illustrating graphs and symbols give the book an easy to read, light touch. The book targets beginners in coaching who are looking for simple guidance and step-by-step ideas in their learning process. Topics include: What is coaching? • Coaching—simple, concise and effective • Overview: Major elements of the coaching conversation • Contracting—before you start • Coaching agreement for the first session • Preferred Future • Resources and forerunners of solutions • Small steps and clues of upcoming progress • Session conclusion • Follow-up sessions • Brief coaching of executives—three examples • Beyond technique—continuous learning as a coach

Coaching to Solutions

Coaching to Solutions
Author: Carole Pemberton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2012-05-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136416706

The book provides a tool kit for managers tasked with raising performance and sustaining motivation. Organisations are being judged by the way in which they accommodate the needs of the individual in work and life-style terms. In this context, the ‘smart’ employer will not only be looking to develop policies that retain talent through recognising their work-life issues, they will be equipping their managers to manage that talent in ways which maximise the contribution that individual can make. The text introduces managers to techniques largely drawn from Brief Therapy (De Shazer & Berg). Brief Therapy is used in the UK, but primarily by social workers, psychologists and counsellors. It's application to work settings is now growing. The attraction of a Solution Focussed approach to coaching is that it offers pragmatic tools that help managers structure helping conversations. The book presents the principles of solution focussed thinking in a language that is readily understandable by managers, and shows how those principles can be applied to a range of issues which managers may find themselves facing as willing or enforced coaches. The book places coaching as an activity which can be done as part of the daily process of management.

Sell More With Sales Coaching

Sell More With Sales Coaching
Author: Peri Shawn
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2013-10-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118785932

Sales coaching tools and strategies to help you sell more Sales executives and business leaders are looking for ways to increase their revenues without major changes to their technology, processes or workforce management. When done effectively, sales coaching can be the catalyst that improves sales results, team morale and employee retention. Sell More with Sales Coaching provides results-proven sales coaching material that includes assessment, exercises and sales coaching questions. As a result of applying the tools and strategies in this book, sales leaders and teams will drive higher revenues and performance by: Assessing team members' sales capacities Determining what type of coaching is needed on an individual basis Identifying sales mistakes being committed by salespeople Coaching salespeople to avoid committing sales mistakes Improving the quality of sales conversations Increasing the quality of conversations within the team Leveraging the use of CRM during sales coaching The author's company, the Coaching and Sales Institute, has worked with large sales forces and provided training for the launch of the debit card, and one of the fastest-growing divisions of the Royal Bank of Canada.

Coaching People

Coaching People
Author: Patty McManus
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781422103470

Most managers coach employees by giving them feedback and evaluating their performance, right? Wrong. Coaching differs markedly from other managerial functions. With its wealth of tips, worksheets, and self-assessments, this handy guide shows managers how to use coaching--not only to strengthen direct reports' skills but also to rev up their performance to unprecedented levels.

The Art of Coaching

The Art of Coaching
Author: Elena Aguilar
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2013-02-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1118421027

Hands-on resources for new and seasoned school coaches This practical resource offers the foundational skills and tools needed by new coaching educators, as well as presenting an overview of the knowledge and theory base behind the practice. Established coaches will find numerous ways to deepen and refine their coaching practice. Principals and others who incorporate coaching strategies into their work will also find a wealth of resources. Aguilar offers a model for transformational coaching which could be implemented as professional development in schools or districts anywhere. Although she addresses the needs of adult learners, her model maintains a student-centered focus, with a specific lens on addressing equity issues in schools. Offers a practical resource for school coaches, principals, district leaders, and other administrators Presents a transformational coaching model which addresses systems change Pays explicit attention to surfacing and interrupting inequities in schools The Art of Coaching: Effective Strategies for School Transformation offers a compendium of school coaching ideas, the book's explicit, user-friendly structure enhances the ability to access the information.