An Integrative Goal-Focused Approach to Executive Coaching
{Grant, 2006. In Stober & Grant (Eds.) Evidence-Based Coaching Handbook.} Coaching is about helping individuals regulate and direct their interpersonal and intrapersonal resources to attain…
Objective Setting and Impact Evaluation Framework
(Ogbeiwi, 2017. Why written objectives need to be really SMART. BJHCM, 2017 Vol 23 No 7.) Well-formulated goals are fundamental to planning effective results-oriented action…
Goal Power
{Driver, 2011. Coaching Positively.} Introduction Setting useful goals brings out your client’s best performance. Goals keep the coaching conversation focused, ensuring it has a sense…
Acceptance and Commitment Training, Values, Choice, Fulfillment, and Co-Active Coaching
{Collis & Winters, 2018. Applications of Acceptance and Commitment Training in Positive Psychology. In Green & Palmer. PPC in Practice.} Like other positive psychology (PP)…
The Positive Coach: Being, Knowing, Doing, and Lifelong Developing
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…
Mindset: Positive Motivation in Coaching
{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,…
Achieving Success and Happiness: Positive Psychology Coaching in Practice
{Franklin, 2018. Achieving Success and Happiness. The relevance of theories of wellbeing and flourishing in Positive Psychology Coaching practice. In Green & Palmer. PPC in…
The BEST model of performance enhancement of John Franklin’s
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…
Coaching Psychology and Strengths Coaching
{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”? …
Coaching Positively to Increase Sense of Purpose: The Meaningful Life
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…
Coaching Positively to Increase Flow and Involvement: The Engaged Life
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…
The Flow Experience
{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;…
The making of meaning
{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…
Strengths Exercises
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…
Strengths Coaching
{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…
Strength-Focused Coaching Conversations
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…
Positive Processes in Strength-Based Coaching
{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…
Coaching Positively for Resilience
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…
Enhancing Positive Emotion With Solid Happiness Interventions
{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…
Choosing Happiness: Goals, Relationship, and Positive Thinking
{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,…
Coaching Positively for Wellbeing: The Full Life
{Falecki, Leach, & Green, 2018. PERMA-powered coaching: Building foundations for a flourishing life. In Green & Palmer (Ed). Positive Psychology Coaching in Practice} {Kauffman, 2006.…
Introducing Positive Coaching
{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…
Designing Positive Workplaces
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,…
Foundations of Positive Organizations
Principles for Designing Positive Workplaces {Cameron, Dutton, & Quinn (Eds.), 2003. Positive Organizational Scholarship: Foundations of a New Discipline A possible subtitle: The positive dynamics…