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Innovation    Leadership Coaching    Solution-Focused    Team Building
SOLVED Solution Focused Progress Focused Coaching and Development Create Learning Team Building and Leadership

Leadership and Team Coaching sound nice until you have to put them into practice. I’ve developed a team and leadership coaching process called SOLVED, using solution-focused as the basis for making progress and adding value to the decision-making and problem-solving of others.

Below are several questions following the SOLVED coaching method that may be useful in team and leadership coaching.

Situation:
  • What needs to happen here today so that you can say that it is worth your time?
  • What’s changed since you first realized this is a challenge?
  • Share when, where, how, and who is involved?
  • What are you doing when this problem is absent or less severe?
Observer:
  • Suppose there is a miracle overnight that solves the problem or challenges you brought into this session. How will you start to discover the following day that the miracle has happened?
  • It is one week from now, and I am visiting you; what will be the 1st observable change that makes me realize you have made progress?
  • How will others see your progress?
Level:
  • Where are you on a scale of 1 – 10? Ten means that you have reached your goal entirely, and 1 means the opposite.
  • On a scale of 1 – 10, where 10 means you’ve reached the point where you can stop worrying, and 1 represents the opposite, where are you when you notice progress?
  • On a scale of 1 – 10, where 10 means you are spending your time on another challenge, what does a 9 look like?
Validation:
  • What are you already doing well, that is keeping you at that level?
  • In the past, how have you made progress on such challenges?
  • From your response on the scale, what has happened to keep you at the number?
Exceptions
  • Which situations in the recent past contained at least a small piece of your preferred future already happening? How did you do that?
  • Where are you, and what are you doing when this challenge is gone?
  • What is working well enough?
Decision and Direction
Clarifying how to proceed, plus:
  • From our discussion today, what will be your next small step?
  • How will you share with us what was helpful from that step?

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