Kirsten Dierolf

Daniel Meier

Peter Szabó

An easy-to-read, pocket-sized primer on brief coaching basics.

Solution-focused Brief Coaching Essentials

Coaching Plain & Simple

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 Plain & Simple: Solution-focused Brief Coaching Essentials

Debbie Hogan

Svea van der Hoorn

Sukanya Wignaraja

Solution Focused Practice Around the World provides an exploration of the diverse uses of SF and offers fascinating insights into how the Solution Focused approach is currently used in many applications around the globe. Bringing together prominent authors, practitioners and trainers, the collection is divided into five sections: theory; therapeutic applications; working with children and adolescents; coaching and working with organisations. Originating from the first international conference on Solution Focused practice spanning all applications of the approach, the chapters provide a grounding in the theory and practice, and an exploration of the breadth and depth of Solution Focused therapy. All practitioners of the Solution Focused approach globally as well as those working in the wider fields of therapy, social work, education, coaching and human resources will benefit from this text and the applicability of the inherent theories to their area of expertise.

Solution Focused Practice Around the World

In many approaches to team development, the coach assumes there are some measurable “ideal qualities” that make teams functional or some “ideal processes” that need to be developed. In this book, Kirsten Dierolf presents the elegant (but radical) simplicity that team development can be driven by how the TEAM wants to be. (Their goals ... not imposed goals.) In this practical and engaging book, Kirsten offers lots of practical tools and lots of REAL examples of working with teams ... with LOTS of examples of positive outcomes in terms of team development and cohesion ... but, perhaps more importantly, positive outcome in terms of productivity and moving forward. Michael Durrant, Faculty of Education & Social Work, University of Sydney, Director, Brief Therapy Institute of Sydney Solution-focused coaching is not rocket science. It is a respectful and positive approach to change and problem solving. Even if the basic ideas of SF are easy to understand, one still needs to learn the tricks of the trade in order to apply its basic tennents in different contexts. In this useful book, you will become familiar with an impressive collection of simple and effective tricks of the trade for working soluton-focused with teams, groups and organisations. I highly recommend to coaches, consultants and managers. Ben Furman, Helsinki Brief Therapy Institute

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