Integration of Solution-Focused Coaching into the Workplace

 Module 2: Creative Solution Finding (Online Lessons)

Overview

Solution-Focused coaching skills enable an individuals, as a coach, to create transformational change in others. The Erickson coaching methodology is built on 4 pillars based on neuroscience: 

• A Solution-Focused approach to coaching moves clients towards their desired future outcomes, instead of concentrating on past experiences or reasons for present dissatisfaction.

• A Systemic approach emphasizes the holistic nature of clients, seeing how positive change it into their bigger picture can.

• A Client-Centered approach allows individuals to trust their client’s inner resources and skills, respecting their agenda and future outcomes.

• An Action-Oriented approach pursues transformational change in specific, inspired steps that lead to fundamental shifts in attitude, behavior, and habit formation.

Learning Objectives

These skills individuals gained from Erickson’s Solution-Focused approach to coaching will become the cornerstones of their needs to partner with people to help them reach their full potential.

✓ Creating trust with others

✓ Going beyond just hearing

✓ Powerful questioning

✓ Robust goal setting

✓ Designing positive actions

✓ Fostering accountability

Content Covered

·       The Prioritization Wheel

·       Coaching Lab - triad practice

·       The Timeline Exercise

·       The Stakeholders Exercise

·       The Tri Position Planning Exercise

·       The Mentors Table Exercise

·       Review and Integration

Hours of Training

This course is for individuals who:

• use career coaching skills in their workplace
• develop leadership skills
• want the foundational coaching skills
• want to integrate coaching but not necessarily practice exclusively as a professional coach
• want to work more effectively with colleagues
• are HR professionals developing skills to influence and connect with people
• work involves intense people engagement and motivation