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Third stage: Experimental stage
C: I am very impressed by how important it is to you to let go as
a coach, and also by your ability to be truly coachee-centered. I
would like to suggest a small e xper ime nt. It will require about
a minute pe r day and will be fun. Would you like me to tell you
about it?
C: Good. Make a list which you update every evening. Let us say
for the next five days. Note down everything that happens
during your coaching meetings that you want to continue
happening in the future.
Second session
The standard focus for the second and the following sessions is
on solutions and resources that popped up
in the meantime:
• What is better? What else? What would other people say?
• How did you manage to do that?
• How can you maintain your progress?
Less coaching, greater success
A group of scientists, working with sociologists Steve de Shazer
and Insoo Kim Berg in the USA, investigated the art of reducing
counseling to the maximum very intensively and with great
success. Over the course of about twenty years, the team
examined and identified what is especially useful in coachee /
coach conversations in order to provide coachees with a
successful way of reaching their goals.
This resulted in the development of solution-focused brief
counseling, a simple procedure which leads to the rapid
identification of sustainable and effective solutions. In concrete
terms, this means that, by systematically refraining from
counseling activities that are of little use, th RF