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Powerful conversation to structure meaningful progress

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Coaching for Professionals

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An integral development-oriented

approach to conversationsand cultural change

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In search of methods to lead conversations in a structural and effective way.

How to work with deeper identity and meaningfulness?

How to enhance client’s or employee’s ownership?

Questions about your own career and personal development.

Looking for an inspiring approach that turns problem solving and quick fix, into a more meaningful way of helping others.

Looking for a patterns of conversations that enhance life !

Your needs and development

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The five pillars of the approach

1. Dialogue2. Goal-oriented project3. Identity4. Self-guidance5. Larger whole

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Leading(Advising)

Pacing(listening)

1Development-oriented dialogue

(zone of proximal development)

Dialogue

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Triangular setting 1

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Triangular setting

Collaborative

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inquiry

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Triangular setting

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Ex: Direction of gazing 1

1. Choose a partner (make duo’s).

2. Agree who is coach and who is client.

3. Construct a triangular set-up with chairs and body.

4. Coach asks: ‘think about a topic for this meeting’.

5. Client looks where the topic mentally is situated.

6. Coach and client alternate three directions of gazing.

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Set up a coaching framework 1

Tell your client what you are going to do

>> negotiate a coaching frame

Tell your client what you are doing

>> engage your client

Tell your client what you have done

>> educate your client

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Examples:

‘Coaching is about helping you to sort out what you want and sustain you in progression along your path.’

‘I want to have an authentic dialogue with you and my core expertise is to structure your issue in such a way that it is easier for you to cope with your challenges’

‘I am not going to solve it in your place. I need your collaboration’

CREATE YOUR OWN ELEVATOR STORY THAT FITS YOUR SITUATION

Sell an idea. Inspire with your pitch.

Ex: elevator pitch 1

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Multi-track the way you deal with clients’ or employee’s issues

Structure meaningful progress

The Fork Model is a tool to to to structure meaningful progress.

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Coach

Four tracks of progress

Client

Self-guidance

Greater whole

Identity

Project

What is your contribution to the greater whole?

What are you doing?

How are you dealing with …?What do you have to learn in order to be more effective in …?

Who are you?What is your actual theme of personal development?

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Meaningful progress

Client

Self-guidance

Greater whole

Identity

Project

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Conversational flow

Client

Self-guidance

Greater whole

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SELF GUIDANCE

GREATER WHOLE

PROJECT

IDENTITY

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Multi-track structuring

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Coach

1. Goal-oriented project

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Self-guidance

Greater whole

Identity

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Goal-oriented project 2

From problem solving to creative goal-oriented work

Problem Goal

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Ex: Goal-oriented project 2

1. The client tells about a negative felt present state or situation.

2. Coach : in contrast with that situation, what would be your goal?

Problem Goal

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2. Identity development

Client

Self-guidance

Greater whole

Identity

Project

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Ex: Identity development 3

1. How old are you now?2. Are you in the middle of something, at the

beginning of a stage of life or at the end of a stage?

3. What is typical for your personal development now?

4. What do you need in order to progress in who you are? (to become whole)

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Development theme

Fragmented Integrated whole

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3. Self-guidance

Client

Self-guidance

Greater whole

Identity

Project

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Ex: Self-guidance

Self-guidance

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1. Assesment (take a project or ID development in mind)

• How are you dealing with your project progression?• How are you dealing with your identity

development?

2. Progress: What can or have to be improved in order to make progress?

3. Intervention: Do you have that skill already available in other contexts of your life?

Lacking skill Learned skill

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4. Greater whole

Client

Self-guidance

Greater whole

Identity

Project

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Ex: Exploration of meaning 5

Greater whole

1. Take a larger whole to which you belong.

2. Participation: what is your suffering?

3. Positive: what kind of improvement to you like to see?

4. In what way are you a walk the talk of that improvement?

Suffering victim Cultural creative

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Coach

Four tracks of progress

Client

Self-guidance

Greater whole

Identity

Project

Create meaningfulness

Structure goal-oriented action

Enhance the skill of self-guidance

Place events in a life narrative

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References

Vandamme, R. Ph.D. (2015). Coaching Handbook for Professionals. Powerful conversations to structure meaningful progress. Ghent: Coaching&Co.

ISBN: 9789490384081

www.coachingbooks.net

info@coachingforprofessionals.netwww.coachingforprofessionals.net

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