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    Coaching Basics: Guiding People and Helping Them Advance
    Coaching Basics: Guiding People and Helping Them Advance
    Coaching Basics: Guiding People and Helping Them Advance
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    Coaching Basics: Guiding People and Helping Them Advance

    By Kerstin Hack

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    This Quadro introduces you to the basics of coaching. It explains the attitudes that make coaching successful and describes the most important techniques of asking questions and coaching methods. It is suitable for people, who want to start with coaching as well as for experienced coaches, who want to revive their knowledge.
    Ideally suited for all, who want to accompany people in their processes of growth and change.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDown to Earth
    Release dateApr 12, 2012
    ISBN9783862705078
    Coaching Basics: Guiding People and Helping Them Advance

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      Coaching Basics - Kerstin Hack

      Kerstin Hack

      Coaching Basics

      Guiding People and Helping Them Advance

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      Kerstin Hack: Coaching Basics. Guiding People and Helping Them Advance · Quadro No. 14

      Copyright © 2010 Down to Earth · Laubacher Str. 16 II · 14197 Berlin · Germany

      English version 2018

      Design: www.michaelzimmermann.com

      Photos: iStockphoto.com - filonmar (1), Pink Tag (6); photocase.com - AllzweckJack (14), mr. creank (22), Stardust (30)

      Translation: Debbie Wright

      Copy editing: Marion Warrington

      ISBN: 978-3-86270-507-8

      More English e-books:

      www.down-to-earth.de/e-books/englische-e-books.html

      Learning coaching

      How to use this book

      Week 1: What is Coaching?

      1.1 The role of the coach

      1.2 Whoever questions, leads

      1.3 Boosting competency

      1.4 Discovering options

      1.5 Defining differences

      1.6 The Gordian Knot

      1.7 Talking about solutions

      Week 2: Finding Goals

      2.1 The first step

      2.2 A specific mandate

      2.3 Defining goals

      2.4 Initiating goals

      2.5 The first step

      2.6 Step by step further

      2.7 Celebrating small successes

      Week 3: Seeing Possibilities

      3.1 Tools

      3.2 The miracle question

      3.3 The miracle question in detail

      3.4 A little bit of miracle

      3.5 Discovering resources

      3.6 Creative resources

      3.7 Feedback

      Week 4: Walking the Road

      4.1 Discovering differences

      4.2 Even more differences

      4.3 Circular questions

      4.4 Reinterpretation

      4.5 Change of perspective

      4.6 Tangible tasks

      4.7 Compliments

      Literature Tips

      Learning coaching

      Coaching is simple, but not easy.

      —Steve de Shazer

      ■ Guiding people in their development – I can think of no better job. It is amazing in coaching to experience the penny literally drop. People experience moments of clarity, and long cherished problems suddenly begin to dissolve.

      I continue to be amazed at the power of good coaching. It's really not difficult – all you need is good questions and a few tools. It's very easy! It becomes problematic when we find easy things difficult. We seem to overcomplicate things. Our view of simplicity becomes obstructed. 

      In a competition, the answer was sought to the following question: The pope, the American President and the Russian President are sitting in a hot air balloon, which is losing air through a leak. In order for two of them to survive, one needs to be thrown overboard. Which one should it be? Thousands of replies came in. The winner of the competition was a child, who answered: The fattest.

      Problems are often complicated, but solutions are always simple once they have been found. Why didn't I think of that? many clients say after a coaching session. Or: Why did I need a coach in the first place? I could have come up with the answer myself. Maybe – but maybe not because we seem to be able to obstruct our view

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