Appreciative Coaching: How Our Assumptions Influence Our Questions
Appreciative coaches automatically know how to word their questions so they empower the client. How? By making the right assumptions
Appreciative Coaching: How to Instantly Improve The Coaching Relationship
There’s a quick and easy way that appreciative coaches use to improve the relationship with their coaching clients. All you need to do is…
Appreciative Coaching: Why We Assume That Something Is Working For Every Client
The Thin Book of Appreciative Inquiry, an excellent introductory book by Sue Annis Hammond, is unusual among Appreciative Inquiry books in that it doesn’t set out the ‘five principles’ (Constructionist, Anticipatory, and so on) as fundamental to the approach. Instead, it lists eight ‘assumptions’ – some of which map on to the standard principles fairly
Appreciative Coaching: How Does the 5-D Format Compare to the GROW and TGROW Models?
If you have any prior experience of coaching you may well have used the GROW model, probably the most widely used format in coaching, and you may be curious about how the Appreciative Inquiry 5-D format relates to it. The GROW model, developed by Graham Alexander and popularised by Sir John Whitmore in his book
Using the 5-D Format in One-to-One Coaching
The 5-D format is the most widely used way of structuring Appreciative Inquiry processes, and by far the one that I have the most personal experience with. Although it originated, like Appreciative Inquiry as a whole, in the field of organisational development, it translates very nicely to one-to-one coaching, as well as team coaching. In