Mindset The coach’s best performance is based on their mind frame when using the coaching skills, knowledge, and tools, bracketing their other specialist knowledge and skills while in the coaching conversation. Considering that most of a person’s limitations are self-imposed,…
{Driver, 2011. Coaching Positively: Lessons for coaches from positive psychology.} Introduction The coach encourages positive client emotions by having a growth mindset, embodying positive capacities, and nurturing their psychological wellbeing. The coach’s mindset directly influences the client’s mindset. It shapes…
{Franklin, 2018. Achieving Success and Happiness. The relevance of theories of wellbeing and flourishing in Positive Psychology Coaching practice. In Green & Palmer. PPC in Practice.} Positive psychology (PP) theories can inform the agenda and process of Positive Psychology Coaching…
Beliefs, Actions, and Outcomes Humans act. When they act in the pursuit of explicit goals or outcomes, we speak of performance. When the performance creates desired outcomes, we look for sustaining factors supporting the performance. Sometimes performance does not yield…
{Linley & Harrington, 2006. Strengths Coaching: A potential-guided approach to coaching psychology. International Coaching Psychology Review. Vol. 1, No. 1 April 2006} What is “Strength”? Strengths are inner capacities that can be facilitated and harnessed through the coaching relationship. At…
Using your strengths to serve others or a greater cause increases life satisfaction and fulfillment. The Life Summary Write an account of your life as you might want a great-grandchild to perceive it. What are the things you find most…
Summary of strengths Strengths are a person’s capacities they are instinctively good at that energize them when practiced. Strengths-focus yields better results than weakness-focus. We can overcome our negativity bias by accessing our resourcefulness and positive emotions. Acknowledging one’s strengths…
{Csikszentmihalyi, 1990. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience.} Pleasure and enjoyment Pleasure is fleeting; it does not require an investment of psychic energy or attention; one can feel it without effort. Pleasure is an important component of life quality, but…
{Csikszentmihalyi, 1990. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience.} Achieving flow in one activity does not necessarily guarantee that one will carry it over to the rest of life. Is there a coherent meaning to life? Is it possible to give…
Mindset: Psychological Flexibility Beliefs about life are mental models we hold about reality. We don’t distinguish between what we believe and what is real when beliefs become deeply ingrained without being challenged by contrary experiences. We communicate rigid, persistent demands…
{Biswas-Diener & Dean, 2007. Positive Psychology Coaching: Putting the Science of Happiness to Work for Your Clients.} Background to Strengths Consider a pilot program where low-achieving eighth-graders were recruited to mentor smaller children, namely the incoming first graders, with immediate…
Confidence: Your Strengths Profile Gain a deeper understanding of your Strengths Profile quadrants and the strengths language to set some initial actions. Realized strengths Which realized strengths could you not be without? Why is this? How are you using your…
{Scheel, Davis, & Henderson, 2013. Therapist Use of Client Strengths: A Qualitative Study of Positive Processes. The Counseling Psychologist. 41(3)} Discussion Positive processes designed to help clients toward optimal functioning can be categorized into five themes: (a) amplification of strengths:…
Introduction Your resilience keeps you going in difficult times and lifts you up to continue after a fall. It is your capacity to respond quickly and constructively to crises. It is your ability to bounce back after a negative emotional…
{Biswas-Diener & Dean, 2007. Positive Psychology Coaching: Putting the Science of Happiness to Work for Your Clients} {Driver, 2011. Coaching Positively: Lessons for coaches from positive psychology.} Introduction Emotion and motivation are linked internally. Feeling upset or frightened in contrast…
{Biswas-Diener & Dean, 2007. Positive Psychology Coaching: Putting the Science of Happiness to Work for Your Clients.} How much of our happiness, talents, accomplishments, aspirations, values, hopes, and beliefs about life’s meaning are under individual control? Much of what seems…
{Falecki, Leach, & Green, 2018. PERMA-powered coaching: Building foundations for a flourishing life. In Green & Palmer (Ed). Positive Psychology Coaching in Practice} {Kauffman, 2006. Positive Psychology: The Science at the Heart of Coaching. In Sober & Grant (Ed). Evidence-Based…
{Driver, 2011. Coaching Positively: Lessons for coaches from positive psychology.} If you harness positive psychology, you can know and value your strengths and note and value others’ strengths. Your mindset could lead you to grow and develop and encourage others…
Designing Positive Workplaces: Job Engagement, Work-Related Wellbeing, and Work Performance Workplace coaching Workplace coaching is concerned with attaining work-related goals in terms of skills, performance, or developmental outcomes. Historically, workplace coaching was focused on poor performers and available to middle…
Principles for Designing Positive Workplaces {Cameron, Dutton, & Quinn (Eds.), 2003. Positive Organizational Scholarship: Foundations of a New Discipline A possible subtitle: The positive dynamics in businesses and organizations that give rise to extraordinary outcomes. The focus on optimal individual…