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SOLUTION FOCUSED COACHINGBUILDING PEFORMANCE

Chris Iveson

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HOW TO . . .

How to get across a whole way of working to a couple of hundred coaches who don’t speak your language.

After this you may say:

“First of all go to an art class!”

However, what follows does illustrate the description process that makes Solution Focused coaching so effective.brief.org.uk 2

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A Performance

Conversation

COACH What are your best hopes from this session?

CLIENT I am very worried about tomorrow’s board meeting – I’m not sure I can handle all the issues I really need be at my best.

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Being at your best

COACH Let’s imagine you wake up

tomorrow and find that you are at

your best, ready for whatever the day

brings.

What might be the first thing you

notice as you wake up that begins to

tell you that this is a day when you

are at your best?

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Windows ‘Paint’ BRIEF

This is such a slow and difficult

task I’m going to take a short

cut! In the real session each

point in the picture was

described. The most important

part of each description was the

interactions between the client

and each of the (named)

‘witnesses’ of his behaviour.

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The Board!!!!

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Ready for anything!

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At your best!

The session stopped here with

the coach trusting that he would

know best what to do and being

at his best he was likely to

produce the best performance.

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At your best!

For a complete transcript of

another ‘At your best’

conversation go to the BRIEF

Blog “Chapter 9” on

www.brief.org.uk or

http://www.brief.org.uk/blog/?p=

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