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

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Claudia Salowski

After my first career with specialist and leadership positions in the industry in Corporate Communications and Human Resources Learning & Development I started my own consulting firm in 2010. I offer systemic consulting for organisations as well as training and coaching for groups and individuals in the areas of leadership, teamwork, communications etc. I also write articles and books, my book "Creative Methods in Business Coaching" is available also in English language on amazon.