Coach Accreditation
Solutions Focus Coaching Masterclass
Extend your coaching repertoire with a proven approach to positive change.
The Solutions Focus Coaching Masterclass refines and extends your coaching repertoire by intentionally integrating pragmatic and proven Solutions Focus methods into coaching and leadership conversations.
About
Solutions Focus is a powerful yet subtle approach to positive change. From its origins twenty years ago, it is now being used by major corporations, top business schools and many coaches and consultants as the methodology of choice where effective, respectful and lasting change is wanted.
The Solutions Focus approach will help you to work with change, emergence and the unexpected more confidently. The philosophy is practical and can be used in any form of interaction whether with teams, members of staff, or even in your personal conversations. You will build a greater awareness of the impact of words and language, and use them even more skilfully.
- Learn how to integrate proven Solution Focus (SF) tools and concepts into your coaching
- Use an emergent tool-based approach to better respond to the coachee - using the six Solution Tools and five Solution Focused Boosters
- Learn to focus more on the coachee and their language
- Work in a broader range of contexts, building on a 'not-knowing' approach
- Understand the philosophical principles of Solutions Focus Coaching, based on the assumption that 'change is happening all the time'
- Build extra flexibility and confidence to work with whatever happens
Minimum requirements
This is an advanced coaching skills course. Participants must have attended the GCI Introduction to Leadership Coaching course or the Coaching Accreditation Program.
Participants should also have experience of applying their coaching skills in their workplace roles.
What you will gain
A richer, more flexible coaching repertoire that draws on proven Solutions Focus tools and concepts
Greater confidence working with uncertainty, change and the unexpected in coaching conversations
Heightened awareness of the power of language and the skill to use it more intentionally
Practical strategies to help teams and individuals become more solution-focused, creative and empowered
Structure
Session 1
- A Solutions Focused welcome
- Using the solutions focus tools to set up the day
- What we already know about coaching
- The GROWTH framework as a coaching foundation
Session 2
- Working in a complex world
- Implications and logics of working in linear and complex worlds
- The Albert model
- Problem focus vs solutions focus
- Affirming what’s working
- Bringing strengths to the fore
Session 3
- Problem to platform
- Engaging and contracting
- Future perfect
- Engaging creativity to stretch the world of our clients
Session 4
- Solutions Focus conversation expanders
- Building the detail to create change
- A user’s guide to the future
- A practical result of thinking in a complex way
Session 5
- Scaling
- An unreasonably effective tool for noticing progress
- Counters
- Looking for what’s already working
- Devising Small actions
- To quickly build progress
- Coaching demonstration using all the tools and expanders
- Preparing for practise
Session 6
- Putting it all together
- Coaching practise session using all the tools
Learning design
At GCI, we believe that we act our way into learning rather than learn our way into acting.
Research-informed, Practitioner-focused
With this principle in mind, all of our courses have a strong emphasis on practice.
A Learning Design to Enable Praxis
When we are engaged in praxis we are reflecting in action, taking what we are learning and applying it in real-life situations. Our in-person and online courses enable praxis through a ‘coaching approach’ to facilitation combined with a range of thoughtfully designed adult learning experiences including:
individual and group reflection activities
co-operative learning tasks
practice opportunities using real workplace scenarios
modelling
observation and feedback
debrief sessions
Flexible Modes of Delivery
The Solutions Focus Coaching Masterclass is available in a range of delivery patterns:
- Two full-days consecutively (in-person only)
- Two full-days spaced (in-person or online)
- Blended option with one full-day in-person and remainder online
In their words
Our facilitators
As a coaching organisation, we endeavour to model a ‘coaching way of being’ in our interactions with our clients by being:
- Respectful
- Humble
- Curious
- Strengths-focused
- Reflective
We encourage a culture of high expectations through our commitment to the ongoing development of our people based on mutual respect and collaboration. Our consultants are expert coach practitioners who draw on a wealth of educational experience to provide the highest level of service as coaches and trainers.
Fees and what is included
This price is for an individual registering on an open-enrolment course.
Savings are available for organisations who wish to run this course for an in-house group.
Please email info@growthcoaching.com.au to request a quote or discuss this further.
Register your interest
If you would like to explore offering this course to your own group, or would like to be notified when new dates are announced, please complete the form below. A member of the GCI team will be in touch.
