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101 Coaching Strategies and Techniques 101 Coaching Strategies and Techniques provides focused, practical strategies to help the coach with their work. Each point provides a detailed explanation of the strategy together with potential pitfalls and solutions. Contributors from a range of coaching backgrounds are brought together to cover a number of issues faced by professional coaches including: (cid:127) confidence building (cid:127) developing specific skills and strategies (cid:127) group coaching (cid:127) problem solving and creativity (cid:127) self awareness (cid:127) the stuck client. 101 Coaching Strategies and Techniques will be a handy reference tool for busy coaches; the bite-sized strategies will also provide a useful guide for those in training. Gladeana McM ahon is Fellow and Chair of the Association for Coaching, UK. Her publications include Achieving Excellence in Your Coaching Practice and Essential Skills for Setting up a Coun- selling or Psychotherapy Practice. Gladeana was listed as one of the UK’s ‘top ten coaches’ in the Independent on Sunday. Anne Archer develops leadership and change capability in organ- isations in both the public and private sector. She also facilitates coach training programmes, open and in-house, and provides 1:1 and group supervision. Anne works with leaders and coaches across the globe. She is Editor of the Association for Coaching bulletin and is a member of the ICF. Essential Coaching Skills and Knowledge Series Editors: Gladeana McMahon, Stephen Palmer & Averil Leimon The Essential Coaching Skills and Knowledge series pro- vides an accessible and lively introduction to key areas in the developing field of coaching. Each title in the series is written by leading coaches with extensive experience and has a strong practical emphasis, including illustrative vignettes, summary boxes, exercises and activities. Assuming no prior knowledge, these books will appeal to professionals in business, management, human resources, psychology, counselling and psychotherapy, as well as students and tutors of coaching and coaching psychology. www.routledgementalhealth.com/essential-coaching-skills Titles in the series: Essential Business Coaching Averil Leimon, François Moscovici & Gladeana McMahon Achieving Excellence in Your Coaching Practice: How to Run a Highly Successful Coaching Business Gladeana McMahon, Stephen Palmer & Christine Wilding A Guide to Coaching and Mental Health: The Recognition and Management of Psychological Issues Andrew Buckley & Carole Buckley Essential Life Coaching Skills Angela Dunbar 101 Coaching Strategies and Techniques Edited by Gladeana McMahon & Anne Archer Group and Team Coaching: The Essential Guide Christine Thornton The Coaching Relationship: Putting People First Stephen Palmer & Almuth McDowall 101 Coaching Strategies and Techniques Edited by Gladeana McMahon and Anne Archer First published 2010 by Routledge 27 Church Lane, Hove, East Sussex BN3 2FA Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 270 Madison Avenue, New York NY 10016 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2010. To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk. © 2010 Selection and editorial matter, Gladeana McMahon and Anne Archer; individual chapters, the contributors All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. This publication has been produced with paper manufactured to strict environmental standards and with pulp derived from sustainable forests. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data 101 coaching strategies and techniques / edited by Gladeana McMahon & Anne Archer. p. cm. ISBN 978–0–415–47333–0 (hbk.) – ISBN 978–0–415–47334–7 (pbk.) 1. Personal coaching. 2. Executive coaching. 3. Counselling–Practice. I. McMahon, Gladeana, 1954– II. Archer, Anne, 1960– III. Title: 101 coaching strategies and techniques. BF637.P36A15 2010 158′.3–dc22 2009040663 ISBN 0-203-85441-1 Master e-book ISBN ISBN: 978–0–415–47333–0 (hbk) ISBN: 978–0–415–47334–7 (pbk) Contents List of figures and tables xiv List of contributors xv Introduction xx A Confidence building 1 1 A strengths and skills exercise 3 GILL DICKERS 2 Achieving an outcome by exploring metaphors 5 ANGELA DUNBAR 3 Acting positively in difficult situations 8 PENNY SWINBURNE 4 Building general confidence and self-esteem 11 PENNY SWINBURNE 5 Celebration and reward 13 MAGS McGEEVER 6 Coping imagery 16 GLADEANA McMAHON 7 Creating a stronger feeling of confidence (or any other positive feeling or resource) using Clean Language 19 ANGELA DUNBAR vi CONTENTS 8 Hold up a mirror and the client will do the rest 22 PETER MELROSE 9 Moving beyond comfort zones 25 CAROLINE SHOLA AREWA 10 Power music 28 MAGS McGEEVER 11 Rescue remedy breathing exercise 31 GLADEANA McMAHON 12 The stand-back strategy 33 GLADEANA McMAHON 13 The step-up technique 36 GLADEANA McMAHON 14 Transition to a new level of responsibility 38 HELEN WARNER 15 Unblocking resistance or fear 40 JOAN O’CONNOR B Developing as a coach 43 16 Adding to the data – feelings 45 ANNE ARCHER 17 Bringing yourself into the room: how to use your presence 48 JULIA CUSACK 18 Helping your client to learn for themselves, not doing the work yourself 50 PETER MELROSE 19 Managing and maximizing a relationship with a third party sponsor 52 HEATHER COOPER CONTENTS vii 20 Managing yourself during the coaching session 55 DARRYL STEVENS 21 Pre-coaching ritual 57 MAGS McGEEVER 22 Redefining the meaning of feedback and creating a unique feedback pattern 59 ELSPETH CAMPBELL 23 Rusty or out of practice 62 JULIA CUSACK 24 Sometimes coping is as good as it gets 65 PETER MELROSE 25 Three-part breathing exercise 68 CAROLINE SHOLA AREWA C Developing specific skills and strategies 71 26 Attitude awareness – impact and influencing 73 GILL HICKS 27 Building a high performing team 76 HELEN WARNER 28 Coaching for confidence in delivering presentations 78 DARRYL STEVENS 29 Confidence building with body language 81 GILL HICKS 30 Creating an impact at work – appearance 84 GILL HICKS 31 Decisions by intuition 87 MAGS McGEEVER viii CONTENTS 32 Enriching a leader’s influence style through a deepening understanding of their impact on others 89 ELSPETH CAMPBELL 33 Handling poor performance/unacceptable behaviour 92 PENNY SWINBURNE 34 Impact – voice 95 GILL HICKS 35 Multi-level modelling 98 BRUCE GRIMLEY 36 Success role modelling 101 DIANA HOGBIN-MILLS 37 The Frame Game 103 DENIS GORCE-BOURGE 38 The swish model 106 BRUCE GRIMLEY 39 Time projection imagery 109 GLADEANA McMAHON D Focusing on the future 111 40 Action planning 113 ANGELA DUNBAR 41 Career choice 115 DIANA HOGBIN-MILLS 42 Career visioning 119 DIANA HOGBIN-MILLS 43 Future vision 123 CHRISTINE K. CHAMPION CONTENTS ix 44 The new behaviour generator 125 BRUCE GRIMLEY 45 Visualizing future goals: back to the future 129 GILL DICKERS E Group coaching 133 46 Box process 135 DAVID ADAMS 47 Disruptive thinking/disruptive marketing 139 DAVID ADAMS 48 Issue processing 141 DAVID ADAMS 49 Leading as a team 143 ANNE ARCHER 50 More/less/stop 146 DAVID ADAMS 51 Unlocking creativity 149 DAVID ADAMS F Problem solving and creativity 153 52 Finding you r niche (using Clean Language) 155 ANGELA DUNBAR 53 Job decision making 157 DIANA HOGBIN-MILLS 54 Letting them draw their own conclusions 160 JULIA CUSACK 55 Mind mapping for insight and problem solving based on the work of Tony Buzan 163 CHRISTINE K. CHAMPION
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