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Coaching Freestyle?

I teach “the theory of the approach with no theory” every year at a solution focused institute every year and as a part of that

Little boxes without topses… personality profiles

If you catch me on a bad day and ask me about personality profiles, you will trigger a rant. Personally, I don’t believe that you

Change. Minds. Now.

“Learn how to wire the brain for lasting change”, “Change minds effectively”, “Break negative thinking”, — sentences we read in marketing blurbs for coach training.

Can you listen to what the client does not say?

Can you really listen to "what the client does not say"? In this Blogpost Kirsten explores communication as information transfer vs. communication as co-creation and shows you examples of how this makes a difference.

Do this with resistant clients

In Solution Focused coaching, we are assuming that clients want to cooperate. If we have the impression that that is not what is happening, it is in our responsibility as coaches to create the conditions for collaboration with the client. Usually, we just need to listen some more and suspend our judgement.

Coaching assumptions: choose them wisely

Hi – this is Chris speaking. I am SolutionsAcademy’s global training director and love working as a mentor, coach supervisor and coach trainer. I’ll be

Coach or Charlatan?

How you can separate the wheat from the chaff with the help of the International Coaching Federation “Coach” is not a protected job title like

CHALLENGING the CLIENT???

Can you challenge your client? Should you challenge your client? What if you do challenge your client and they stop liking you? What if you

Coaching Buzzword Bingo

We had a really interesting discussion in our Coaching Supervision training the other day. Some of us had participated in a global coaching initiative with

Celebrating progress – 2 cool coaching hacks!

What would I write if it weren’t for the participants in my trainings, free coaching meetups and my mentees! A few weeks ago, I noticed

Are you stuck in the tyranny of “now”?

“I lack self-confidence!”, “I am an introvert, “She is a low performer” — All these statements support the “tyranny of now” and impede the liberating

5 ways to ask future focused coaching questions

Future focused questions are some of the most powerful and transformational coaching questions you can ask. They invite the client to think about a preferred

6 tips when clients get on your nerves

I know, I know, I know — your clients never get on your nerves. They shouldn’t, right? I mean, as coaches, we are these saintly

Authentic selves don’t exist

“Whaaaaaat????”, I can imagine you disagree, look puzzled, maybe even angry as you read the above statement. There is so much talk about “authentic selves”

Book review: “Assholes” by Aaron James

Assholes: A Theory by Aaron JamesMy rating: 5 of 5 stars “Assholes: A Theory” is a philosophical / psychological treatise on the definition, characteristics and treatment of the

Coaching Freestyle?

Little boxes without topses… personality profiles

Change. Minds. Now.

Can you listen to what the client does not say?

Do this with resistant clients

Coaching assumptions: choose them wisely

Coach or Charlatan?

CHALLENGING the CLIENT???

Coaching Buzzword Bingo

Celebrating progress – 2 cool coaching hacks!

Are you stuck in the tyranny of “now”?

5 ways to ask future focused coaching questions

6 tips when clients get on your nerves

Authentic selves don’t exist

Book review: “Assholes” by Aaron James

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