New beginnings need coaching!
An opportunity
• John Constable, Hampstead Heath with a Rainbow
The challenge
• Cildo Meireles, Babel
Solutions focus inquiry
Naum Gabo, Standing Wave
Conversations with magic
Subverting and challenging
From problems to solutions
1. What is the problem?
2. How long have you had it?
3. How did it arise?
4. Who or what do you think is to blame?
5. What’s your worst experience in dealing with this problem?
6. Why haven’t you solved it yet?
1. What outcome are you hoping for?
2. How will you know when you’ve got it?
3. What might others notice?
4. What will be better?
5. What resources or experience do you already have that might help you solve the problem?
6. What is going to be your first step?
Anchoring my development
Cultivating presence
Committing time and energy to
active reflection Actively
seeking feedback
from colleagues, clients and
friends
Living life fully
Investing in a broad
worldview
Experimenting with new ways
of being
Continuing to work
unresolved issues and unfinished business
Tolbert & Hannafin 2006
My coaching foundations: Questioning*
• What makes a
good question
• How much do you
prepare
• Intention
• In the moment
• Put lists away
This and following 6 slides are based on Coaching Fundamentals by Ana Karakusevic, Roffey Park
Institute
My coaching foundations: listening
• Is a coach the same as a
good listener?
• Listening as presence
• Listening to ourselves
• Connection, possibility and
co-creation
My coaching foundations: feedback
• Give or offer?
• Lightness
• Non-righteousness
• Exploration
• How we receive it
My coaching foundations: trust and boundaries
• Takes a long time to build
• Self-awareness
• Is it counselling?
• Is it mentoring?
• Trust own self and hunches
• Whole person
My coaching foundations: Imagery
• Metaphors and
language
• Images and
imagination
• Powerful change
makers
My coaching foundations: presence
• A coach not as mirror but equal partner
• Presence of mind
• ‘the next question’
• Growth is not a linear path
My go-to questions
1. What outcome are you hoping for?
2. How will you know when you’ve got it?
3. What might others notice?
4. What will be better?
5. What resources or experience do you already have that might help you solve the problem?
6. What is going to be your first step?
My go-to quote
‘That’s a way to see it and
there is also another way
to see it.’ Insoo Kim Berg
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