Designing Coaching Conversations Creatively

What is the course about?

This Espresso Course supports you in using creative methods for your Coaching conversations - in order to make the results more visible and more tangible

Often times Coaching conversations or problem solving is mainly focused on or limited to a pure dialogue, that means they take place on the levels of facts, logic and language. Using Coaching as a methodology and adding creativity methods helps to activate emotions and the power of mental pictures so that solutions become more visible and more tangible.

The course contents are:

1. Introduction: Why Coaching? How is Coaching different from Mentoring and Training?
2. Coaching as a profession and a leadership tool
3. The Coaching Mindset
4. Setting the stage
5. The GROW model for solution-oriented conversations
6. Using creative methods in contracting and goal-setting
7. Solving problems playfully
8. Visualization and documentation during the Coaching process
9. Roles and Responsibilities in the Coaching process
10. Wrap-up

Course content

What will you learn?

This course structure will support both, experienced Coaches as well as Leaders or Managers with less experience in Coaching. There is also a bonus video that shows different scenes of demo Coaching processes that provide insights on how the methods look like in real life.

Course instructors

Zum Profil

Claudia Salowski

Nach erster Karriere in Fach- und Führungspositionen in der Industrie in den Bereichen Corporate Communications und Human Resources Learning & Development bin ich seit 2010 mit eigener Beratungsfirma selbstständig und berate Organisationen, coache und trainiere Führungskräfte und moderiere Veranstaltungen und Prozesse. Darüber hinaus bin ich als freie Autorin tätig, u.a. sind meine Bücher "Kreative Methoden im Business Coaching" (2020, Springer essentials) sowie "FrauenStärken - mit Working Out Loud die berufliche und gesellschaftliche Position von Frauen fördern" (2022, Springer Gabler) im Buchhandel erhältlich.