Solution-focused Coaching: Simply Effective
© 2002, Coert Visser & Gwenda Schlundt Bodien John is a 35-year-old project manager who was offered external coaching. John performed generally well but was said to communicate rather bluntly. The goal of the coaching was to help John improve his communication skills, to communicate more tactful and aware. John and his coach tried to find situations in which john had already done this. Together, they explored these situations and identified which behaviors of John helped to make his communication more effective. Doing this they identified some things that worked really well (taking some time before responding, asking other peoples help, etc.). In the following few weeks John started to apply these solutions consciously. It worked fine. John even applied his new skills in applying for a new job within his organization. He got the job. Nowadays many managers and employees are assiduously looking for ways to lessen their problems or to increase their work pleasure. The market for exte...