Download or read book Solution Focus coaching leadership conversations constructives written by GŽry Derbier and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-11-06 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ce livre est un guide pratique des techniques de conversation qui font la spécificité de l'approche de Coaching Solution Focus. Ces techniques pourront profiter à tout coach débutant ou même expérimenté, à celui ou celle qui voudra développer un leadership différent, ou tout simplement à ceux qui seront curieux d'explorer un nouveau moyen d'avoir des conversations plus constructives aussi bien professionnelles que personnelles.

Download or read book Positively Speaking written by Paul Z. Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Positively Speaking: The Art of Constructive Conversations with a Solutions Focus By Paul Z Jackson and Janine Waldman Suppose.. You've got a difficult conversation that you're really not looking forward to You want to change your boss's mind, but he doesn't listen You need your team - or your children - to take responsibility for their own issues Top consultants Paul Z Jackson and Janine Waldman take you on a tour of successful, constructive conversations, from preparation through opening remarks to agreeing the right actions. Illustrated throughout with tips, examples and exercises, Positively Speaking will develop your skills in creating dialogue that works well for you at work, in social settings and at home. With a resource-based, solutions-focused approach, you will find it simpler and more enjoyable to get what you want by talking to people the Positively Speaking way. And the results will be positively extraordinary. Praise for Positively Speaking: "With Positively Speaking Jackson and Waldman have created my dream Solutions Focus book: they make the concepts absurdly easy to understand and - more importantly - they make the material relevant to my work and relationships " Dr. Robert Biswas-Diener, Programme Director, Center of Applied Positive Psychology "The strategic application of Solution Focused approaches can help unlock the most challenging aspects of executive leadership in the modern public sector. Jackson and Waldman's approach instils the discipline of simplicity and builds confidence through positive enquiry. I have greatly benefited from working with them and recommend Positively Speaking as a way ahead." Andrew Fowlie, General Manager, NHS Grampian "For me, there's nothing like going on a course and gaining new skills - unless it's a book like 'Positively Speaking', which gives me background, theory, case studies, models and, most importantly real concrete ways to put all of that into practice in my day-to day work of coaching, facilitation and working through conflict. This book is a real asset to any practitioner who needs to 'just do it' - just great." Ann Lukens, Director, Groupworks "This resource really does live up to its aim of helping us learn more about what we can do rather than what we can't. I like the way it brings the idea of Solutions Focus to life through examples, case studies and practical exercises. I'll definitely be using these ideas in my work as a facilitator and coach." Colin Coombs, Learning & Development Manager, Tate Paul Z Jackson and Janine Waldman are co-directors of The Solutions Focus (www.thesolutionsfocus.co.uk), leading a team of consultants, facilitators and coaches who apply this approach worldwide in organisations including Beiersdorf (Nivea), PepsiCo, Reading Borough Council, John Laing and The Metropolitan Police

Download or read book The CCL Handbook of Coaching written by Sharon Ting and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coaching is vital to developing talent in organizations, and it is an essential capability of effective leaders. The CCL Handbook of Coaching is based on a philosophy of leadership development that the Center for Creative Leadership has honed over thirty years with rigorous research and with long, rich experience in the practice of leadership coaching. The book uses a coaching framework to give a compass to leaders who are called to coach as a means of building sustainability and boosting performance in their organizations. The book explores the special considerations that leader coaches need to account for when coaching across differences and in special circumstances, describes advanced coaching techniques, and examines the systemic issues that arise when coaching moves from a one-to-one relationship to a developmental culture that embraces entire organizations.

Download or read book Solutions Focus 3rd edition written by Mark McKergow and published by Nicholas Brealey. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solutions Focus Practice is transforming coaching, consulting and leadership in organisations all over the world. A powerful yet simple approach to positive change, a solutions focus approach to people problems explores what works in a given situation and aims do more of it. The Solutions Focus is the definitive guide to this revolutionary yet practical alternative to conventional wisdom. It demonstrates how the unique SIMPLE method of working sidesteps the search for the causes of trouble and heads directly for the solution. Today national solutions focus associations around the world from Sweden to Australia, base their training on the methods explained here. Solutions focus is in widespread use by consultants, coaches, facilitators and managers. It can be applied at one-to-one, group or organisational levels. Applications include health and wellbeing, sales and negotiation, team building and leadership, performance management, organisational strategy and even peace-building and climate resilience. This long-awaited new edition of The Solutions Focus is fully revised and updated for today's executive, career and life coaches. Including the transformative OSKAR coaching framework, one of the most used throughout the coaching world. Revisions to this acclaimed book include updates throughout to position it in the contemporary landscape. Next generation developments are fully covered including new research on embodiment and experience, the role of hosting rather than directing, and the importance of detail. New case studies from around the world including Nestle, Kraft, Tate and Canon continue the book's legacy of learning from real cases by looking closely at what happens and how it works. Finally, new material exploring improvisation and co-constructed stories completes the update and will ensure this book remains the leader in its field for generations to come.

Download or read book The Weekly Coaching Conversation written by Brian Souza and published by Productivitydrivers. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether your team is in an office, on a field, in a classroom, or in your living room-have you ever felt they had more to give, but you weren't quite sure how to get it out of them? Have you ever thought they might benefit from a coaching conversation, but you didn't really know what to say or how to say it? Are you looking for that one new idea, that one simple strategy that will take your team's performance-and your career-to the next level? If so, The Weekly Coaching Conversation is definitely the book for you. Every once in a while a book like this comes along with a message so simple-yet so profound-it literally transforms people's lives. In a story as inspiring as it is informative, bestselling author Brian Souza reveals the secrets to unleashing a person's potential. Introducating a groundbreaking, yet easy-to-apply framework that's backed by years of rigorous research, The Weekly Coaching Conversation gives managers, supervisors, and team leaders that playbook to turbocharge any teams' performance.

Download or read book Solution Focused Coaching Supervision written by Kirsten Dierolf and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solution Focused Coaching Supervision offers the reader a theoretically coherent framework for coaching supervision, outlined in an engaging way that is simple to understand and apply immediately using a variety of collaborative coaching supervision moves grounded in practical examples. The book offers an in depth understanding of the theory of Solution Focused Supervision, which as a social-constructionist approach, privileges the coaching supervision clients’ experience, resources and preferred future over an “analytic” or deficit-oriented stance. It also provides a step-by-step “how-to” for individual, group, peer and team coaching supervision. Coaching supervision ethics is discussed in theory and via real case examples. Deliberate and reflective practice models will enable readers to develop their practice wherever their starting point may be. The reader will also find transcripts of actual coaching supervision sessions to bring the theory to life. An essential and comprehensive resource that will enable beginner coaching supervisors to start practising this highly respectful and ethical approach to coaching supervision, while also inspiring more advanced coaching supervisors to use this simple and effective approach to coaching supervision.

Download or read book Solution Focused Team Coaching written by Kirsten Dierolf and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solution Focused Team Coaching offers readers a simple, practical and effective way to coach teams. Its evidence-based approach, which has been applied successfully to many fields, is presented in an engaging, pragmatic and approachable way, making this book a must read for anyone who wants to broaden their horizon within the team coaching space. This book presents the background and philosophy of Solution Focused team coaching and then moves on to explore its practical application in various formats of team coaching, with different audience dimensions. The reader will find a useful structure for team coaching processes as well as detailed descriptions for facilitating team coaching “moves” (conventionally called “techniques” or “tools”) for both online and live settings. With this book, it is easy to plan a Solution Focused team coaching process from contract negotiation through workshop design to follow-up and evaluation. It covers difficult team situations such as conflicts, and different forms of teams from shop-floor to executive teams, Agile teams and special formats of team coaching, as well as how to facilitate larger teams. Additionally, readers who want to achieve certification and/or accreditation will find it extremely useful to read about ICF, EMCC and AC team coaching competencies and how Solution Focused team coaching is an easy way of embedding those competencies. Solution Focused Team Coaching is a must for any coach, from those who would like to learn a pragmatic, impactful and easy way to move into team coaching to experienced team coaches who would like to learn a new approach and expand their skills, and anybody interested in exploring the fascinating world of team coaching.

Download or read book The Leader s Guide to Coaching in Schools written by John Campbell and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2017-06-08 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grow your leadership skills to bring out the best in your school! Hallways, parking lots, staff rooms—these are all places where you and your staff have conversations every day. What if you could use these opportunities to build your staff’s resiliency and empower them to reach their goals. The Leader’s Guide to Coaching in Schools offers a proven, accessible, and usable framework to increase your interpersonal effectiveness and grow your ability to coach your staff to overcome obstacles and create their own solutions. Coaching experts John Campbell and Christian van Nieuwerburgh demonstrate how coaching is not just for formal coaching relationships, but how a coaching approach can be applied throughout a school day to create a culture of growth. Through sample questions, video examples, and tools this step-by-step guide shows you how to: Introduce a coaching approach into a wide range of conversational contexts Use the GROWTH coaching conversation framework to improve both staff and student success and well-being Use coaching approaches in areas that school leaders typically find challenging: in formal performance reviews, when giving informal feedback, and when working with teams Help your staff get "unstuck" no matter what challenges they are facing by using solutions-focused coaching techniques that help them envision desired outcomes and the actions needed to achieve them. "The GROWTH coaching model should be in every administrator’s hand as their bible for school improvement. Having this guide will guarantee success and getting the best out of all stakeholders." —Elizabeth Alvarez, Principal John C. Dore Elementary, Chicago, IL "The book is just what the doctor ordered for busy leaders—short and concise." —B.R. Jones, Superintendent of Education Tate County School District, Senatobio, MS

Download or read book Solutions Focused Special Education written by Nicholas Burnett and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the work of innovative educators, this edited volume shows how adopting a solutions focused approach can offer new constructive ways forward for special education. Diverse international contributors from both the world of special education and solutions focused thinking, offer ways to rethink special education and to focus on what can be done rather than what can't. Each chapter offers insights into how solutions focused thinking can reframe special education and the tangible results for children, families and schools. Chapters on teaching and learning, behaviour support, human resources, school leadership and family and community show how a solutions focused approach can be transformative for all aspects of special and inclusive education.

Download or read book Brief and Simple written by Natalie Polgár and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of articles provides: - authentic practitioner accounts of the Solution Focus(SF) approach being used successfully in team coaching and organizational development all around the world. They were written by authors like Yasuteru Aoki, Jesper H. Christiansen, Jenny Clarke, Hannes Couvreur, Kirsten Dierolf, Ben Furman, Dominik Godat, Chris Iveson, Marco Ronzani and Peter Szabó. - smart practices on how to face serious organizational development challenges such as attracting and keeping good people, facilitating the formation of high performing teams, improving career management and succession planning, increasing job commitment, support motivation and reducing stress. - tools to enhance the link between individual, team and organizational goals and their achievement - interviews with leaders who use SF in their everyday work to motivate employees, create team unity, facilitate open communication, encourage action and innovation, maintain vision and perspective. Our hope for this book is that leaders and employees in organizations, coaches and consultants will find inspiring examples of the lightness and simplicity, variety and flexibility that is the solution focused process. “This is a book about organisational change. [...] The solution focused approach came to the organisational change world from the therapy room. It is a very specific approach, devised in the mid to late 1980s as part of the interactional brief therapy tradition by Steve de Shazer, Insoo Kim Berg, their colleagues at the Brief Family Therapy Center in Milwaukee and others. It’s not (even if it sometimes looks like it) about being positive. It’s not about looking on the bright side. It’s not even about finding solutions. In the interactional tradition, we look for the ways in which meanings are continually created, moulded and evolved in everyday conversation. An ‘organisation’ is not really as solid as it sounds – it is a group of people engaged in organising, which is a continuous process (even if things seem very stuck at a particular point). By changing the conversations, the questions, the responses, we cannot but change the organisation. [...] This book is the latest collection of SF cases, following on from 2007’s Solution Focus Working These books are treasure troves of ideas for the seeker with some time and patience. They are not quick-fire checklists. Treat this book as a starting point for developing your own work and practice.” – Mark McKergow

Download or read book Solution Focused Therapy written by Alasdair Macdonald and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2011-08-12 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Solution-focused Therapy remains the most accessible yet comprehensive case-based introduction to the history, theory, research and practice of solution-focused therapy (SFT) within mental health care and beyond. Drawing on contemporary research and the author′s own extensive experience, the fully revised and updated new edition includes: " discussion of recent developments relevant to research and training " a new chapter on challenges to SFT and the integration of SFT with other therapeutic approaches " extended discussion on ethical issues " topical exploration of the application of SFT with patients with personality disorders and dementias " contemporary research on solution-focused coaching and approaches to organizational change " new case material. This highly practical guide should be on the desk of every student or trainee studying this strongly supported, growing approach. It is also a useful resource for practitioners wanting to update their core skills and knowledge.

Download or read book Innovation Leadership in Practice written by Karina R. Jensen and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovation Leadership in Practice provides a unique source of new insights on the role of innovation leadership and effective practices through conceptual models, empirical case studies, development interventions, and tools.

Download or read book Conversational Capacity The Secret to Building Successful Teams That Perform When the Pressure Is On written by Craig Weber and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2013-04-19 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What keeps a team performing at its peak even under the most difficult conditions? Conversational capacity: the ability to have open, balanced, nondefensive dialogue In a world of mounting complexity and rapid-fire change, it's more important than ever to build teams that work well when the pressure is on. Craig Weber provides managers and team leaders with the communication tools they need to ensure that the team remains on track even when dealing with its most troublesome issues, responds to tough challenges with greater agility and skill, and performs brilliantly in circumstances that incapacitate less disciplined teams. Craig Weber is an international consultant specializing in team and leadership development.

Download or read book Coaching in Professional Contexts written by Christian van Nieuwerburgh and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have your students mastered the underlining theory and skills of coaching practice but wanting to get a flavour of what coaching actually looks like in different real-life settings? Then you have come to the right place! Whether they are wanting to find out more about the use of coaching within the private or public sector, within health care or education, Christian van Nieuwerburgh and his team of expert authors will take them on a unique journey into all of these coaching contexts and beyond. Challenging the idea that a coach can work in any setting without a detailed understanding of the field, this book: addresses the importance of understanding professional context when coaching, exploring current debates and considering the hows and whys of using coaching in a certain context provides tools and knowledge to enable readers to adopt best practice techniques from a range of fields delves into the personal and professional challenges that will inevitably arise. Whether a practising coach or a coach in training, this practical guide will provide your students with the ideal ′way-in′ to all the different contexts in which they may wish to coach.

Download or read book Coaching Conversations written by Linda M. Gross Cheliotes and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2018-04-13 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focus the power of your collaborative school community with powerful coaching conversations! Effective coaching conversations are powerful tools to rally your school-community stakeholders to work collaboratively toward transformation, and, ultimately, share in success. The Second Edition of this best-selling handbook includes new neuroscientific research that demonstrates the potential for change in schools and expands the approach to cover teacher/student interaction. In addition to learning techniques to engage and motivate, readers will also discover how to: Develop relational trust within the school to heighten personal growth and learning Utilize the power of committed listening, intentional conversations, and nonjudgmental feedback Create positive changes in how people think and interact

Download or read book The Center for Creative Leadership Handbook of Coaching in Organizations written by Douglas Riddle and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effect better outcomes with a robust coaching program The CCL Handbook of Coaching in Organizations deals with the practical, ethical, and political challenges of coaching within an organization. From coaching superiors to coaching business teams, this book outlines the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) approach to professional coaching to help readers better manage leadership development and talent management program outcomes. With expert guidance on the key functions of human resources, learning and development, and organizational development, readers will gain insight into the issues associated with coaching program implementation and management, and the use of internal versus external coaches. Coverage includes a wide range of coaching-based services used in most large organizations, with practical advice on creating the right programs for maximum impact within the available budget. Professional development is a hot topic and plays a key role in attracting and retaining the best talent. Coaching is a broad area within the field, encompassing a range of services and goals, with varied expectations and requirements. This book provides actionable guidance for those designing, initiating, and implementing coaching programs, with new approaches and techniques that drive better outcomes. Provide direct coaching within an organization Manage coaching systems and programs Initiate and lead mentoring and peer-coaching programs Manage external coaches, and deal effectively with coaching suppliers An ideal coaching program must balance need with budget and be tailored to the requirements and resources of both the organization and the participants. It's a complex undertaking, but the right strategy and planning can lead to even better than expected outcomes. For the human resources professional who wants to strengthen an organization's coaching program, CCL Handbook of Coaching in Organizations is a thoughtful reference for a specialized function.

Download or read book Navigating the Coaching and Leadership Landscape Strategies and Insights for Success written by Wefald, Andrew J. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2024-03-07 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's rapidly evolving leadership landscape, a glaring gap exists between theory and practice in coaching and leadership. While scattered research attempts to shed light on this critical intersection, a comprehensive resource remains elusive, leaving practitioners and scholars needing a unified framework to navigate this complex terrain. The absence of a holistic understanding hampers the efforts of leaders striving to cultivate effective coaching practices and impedes scholarly progress in this burgeoning field. Navigating the Coaching and Leadership Landscape: Strategies and Insights for Success, poised to bridge the divide between theory and practice in coaching and leadership. By meticulously examining the theoretical underpinnings and practical applications of coaching within leadership contexts, our comprehensive volume offers a long-awaited solution to this pressing problem. From elucidating the foundational connection between coaching and leadership to providing actionable insights into implementing coaching practices, each chapter serves as a guiding beacon for practitioners and scholars alike.