This book presents the fundamentals and applications of solution-focused coaching both in individual coaching and in coaching entire teams. It provides central tools for consulting as well as an extensive collection of solution-focused coaching questions for practical use. In the second part of the book, methods and procedures for conducting team coaching workshops are presented. The book is aimed primarily at coaches and consultants who want to enrich their work with solution-focused coaching, as well as managers especially in the field of human resource management.
Author(s): Jörg Middendorf
Series: Business Guides on the Go
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 137
City: Cham
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction
It Is Just an Innocent Question!
Part I: Individual Coaching
1: It Is Not About Solutions!
1.1 An Initial Guide
1.2 Misunderstanding: The Solution-Focused Approach Focuses on Solutions
1.3 Misunderstanding: Problems Are Never Talked About in the SFC
1.4 Misunderstanding: Solution-Focused = Miracle Question!?
1.5 Conclusion
2: If It’s Not Broken, Don’t Fix it
2.1 Basic Assumptions of the Solution-Focused Approach
2.2 The Classic Session of SFBT
3: It Is Simple and Sometimes Easy
3.1 The Solution-Focused Coaching (SFC) Process
3.2 Define and Differentiate the Outcome
Transcript of a Real-Life Example
Fifty Questions Around Goals and the Preferred Future
3.3 Recognize and Develop Resources
Transcript of Real-Life Example: Continuation
Fifty Questions to Recognize and Develop Resources
3.4 Recognize and Reinforce Progress
Almost 50 Questions Around Progress
3.5 Adjourning
3.6 Mastering Challenging Situations
4: It Is More than a Miracle
4.1 The Miracle Question and Its Children
4.2 Scale Questions
4.3 Formula First Session Task and Compliments
4.4 Attentional Focus
Part II: Team Coaching: Reteaming®
5: It Is All About Motivation: Reteaming®
5.1 The Idea of Reteaming®
5.2 The Five Factors of Motivation
6: It Starts with a Motto: The Assignment
6.1 The First Contact
6.2 The Personal First Contact
7: It Is About the Team’s Future: The Team Coaching Workshop
7.1 Joining
7.2 Start Checklist: Flip Charts and Material to Start With
8: It Is Only 12 Steps: The Team Coaching Workshop
8.1 Our Future Dream
8.2 Our Goal
8.3 Our Supporters
8.4 Our Benefit
8.5 Our Progress So Far
8.6 Our Future Progress
8.7 Our Challenges
8.8 Our Confidence
8.9 Our Promise
8.10 Our Progress Monitoring
8.11 Our Strategies Against Setbacks
8.12 Our Celebration of Successes
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