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Facilitative Coaching: A Toolkit for Expanding Your Repertoire and Achieving Lasting Results
Many facilitators realize that the basic methodologies they use often fail to take their clients to a place of deeper learning and growth required when addressing complex issues. This book offers over seventy exercises, along with tips and tools for expanding the professional coach's repertoire and includes a full range of interventions. The book also includes step-by-step guidance on how to use these innovative methods with clients. Based on the Skilled Facilitator model developed by best-selling author Roger Schwarz in his landmark book, The Facilitative Coaching Toolkit is ideal for coaches who are looking for advanced alternative approaches to helping their clients get "unstuck" when dealing with obstacles.
464 pages, Paperback
First published November 21, 2008
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December 27, 2012
Swashbooked, 10 minutes + discussion, Christmas 2012, with @ipreuss.
Why I picked it: Actually, Ilja picked it. I liked that it looks practical, with exercises one can use as a coach.
Notes:
Easy to use: paperback, very clear font, wide pages, lays flat.
Includes CD (what is on it? We'll report back here once we find a CD drive and check :-)
Back cover:
"Become a collaborative coach who fully engages clients in achieving creative, purposeful action toward their deepest dreams and desires"
"For both the professional development of coaches and use with coaching clients."
Based on the authors' coaching model, which in turn is based on (book) The Skilled Facilitator of Roger Schwarz.
Cool tool: Coaching exercise matrix, to help pick an exercise. (I swashbooked this at 3pm and by 5pm had already used the matrix and found it helpful!)
* matching client needs with exercises. With categories: Mutual learning conversation, Role play, Guided imagery, Writing, Visual Expression, Body Work, Fieldwork & experiments, Rituals.
* Methods are quite varied: Example: "To shift thinking": Ritual approaches (these are quick for the coach, longer for the client), and Shared Conversation approach (full hour session with coach, using drawing etc.).
* p46 Choosing an appropriate intervention: test-drive it on yourself, client learning style, willingness, exploration, joint design (offer several options), watch out for "please the teacher".
* Includes examples of conversations to design an intervention.
Discussion:
* is a toolkit that is compatible with co-active coaching. Guiding principles look like a subset of co-active model. Ex: co-creation, look for resonance (watch out for "please the teacher")
* matrix makes it valuable in real time with minimal advance investment.
Decision:
Keep paper book and get it on Kindle, to use as a reference book on spur of the moment, even on the road.
(Damn, it's not on Kindle? Cannot find e-book format anywhere... what a missed opportunity to sell us another copy!) Perhaps the CD fills this need... will report back.
Why I picked it: Actually, Ilja picked it. I liked that it looks practical, with exercises one can use as a coach.
Notes:
Easy to use: paperback, very clear font, wide pages, lays flat.
Includes CD (what is on it? We'll report back here once we find a CD drive and check :-)
Back cover:
"Become a collaborative coach who fully engages clients in achieving creative, purposeful action toward their deepest dreams and desires"
"For both the professional development of coaches and use with coaching clients."
Based on the authors' coaching model, which in turn is based on (book) The Skilled Facilitator of Roger Schwarz.
Cool tool: Coaching exercise matrix, to help pick an exercise. (I swashbooked this at 3pm and by 5pm had already used the matrix and found it helpful!)
* matching client needs with exercises. With categories: Mutual learning conversation, Role play, Guided imagery, Writing, Visual Expression, Body Work, Fieldwork & experiments, Rituals.
* Methods are quite varied: Example: "To shift thinking": Ritual approaches (these are quick for the coach, longer for the client), and Shared Conversation approach (full hour session with coach, using drawing etc.).
* p46 Choosing an appropriate intervention: test-drive it on yourself, client learning style, willingness, exploration, joint design (offer several options), watch out for "please the teacher".
* Includes examples of conversations to design an intervention.
Discussion:
* is a toolkit that is compatible with co-active coaching. Guiding principles look like a subset of co-active model. Ex: co-creation, look for resonance (watch out for "please the teacher")
* matrix makes it valuable in real time with minimal advance investment.
Decision:
Keep paper book and get it on Kindle, to use as a reference book on spur of the moment, even on the road.
(Damn, it's not on Kindle? Cannot find e-book format anywhere... what a missed opportunity to sell us another copy!) Perhaps the CD fills this need... will report back.
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