As lead author of Appreciative Coaching: A Positive Process for Change, I am often asked where coaches and managers can learn more about and practice this developmental and strengths-focused way of enabling change and growth. Therefore, I’m offering this teleclass. Initially, there will be five sessions of 50 minutes each, spaced two weeks apart. I will assign and distribute workbook practice assignments in between each session. I’d like to limit the classes to 8 minimum and 10 maximum. When the first session fills, I’ll post a second session, so that registration is unlimited, and courses will begin as soon as a session fills.

The sessions will cover:

• Intro to Appreciative Coaching- how it enhances what you are already doing
• Principles of Appreciative Coaching and how they play out in sessions
• Stages: Define, Discover, Dream, Design, Destiny- what is critical in each stage, non-linear, circular process
• Focus on Dream and Destiny with coaching role plays
• Customized review and more intense focus on critical aspects of appreciative coaching and discussion of course, course suggestions for more advanced work.

As I am still working on this program, your investment is $250 with the book Appreciative Coaching: A Positive Process for Change (which I will ship to you upon registration) and $210 without the book. (Fielding Graduate University is currently offering a similar course for $1250).

I’ll start Tuesday night February 9 at 4 PM Pacific (5 Mountain, 6 Central, and 7 Eastern) and go every other Tuesday night for 5 (five) 50-minute sessions through April 6. I’ll plan to record the sessions so if you have to miss one, you can get the audio file. I will forward the connection information as each session fills.

You will receive 4 continuing education units from the International Coach Federation for this course.

When

Tuesday, February 9, 2010 4:00pm – 4:50pm Pacific
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 4:00pm – 4:50pm Pacific
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 4:00pm – 4:50pm Pacific
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 4:00pm – 4:50pm Pacific
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 4:00pm – 4:50pm Pacific

Where

Telephone conference call with slides via vyew.com

What

Using Appreciative Coaching Effectively

Price

$250 – Book Included

$210 – Book NOT Included

NOTE: In addition to an introductory course to Appreciative Coaching I will offer an advanced practicum for coaches and managers who wanted to go more deeply into the philosophy and use of positive methods in their coaching. Registrants must have participated actively in the Introductory Course, or in another intensive Appreciative Coaching experience.

The Practicum will begin at the end of March 2010. If you are interested, please register your interest here. This teleclass will require a consistent coaching partner for the class (someone else in the class), and role plays within each of four sessions. This will be priced at $300.

When

Wednesday, June 2 4:00pm- 5:00pm Pacific
Wednesday, June 16 4:00pm – 5:00pm Pacific
Wednesday, June 30 4:00pm – 5:00pm Pacific
Wednesday, July 14 4:00pm – 5:00pm Pacific

Where

Telephone conference call with web access for powerpoint presentation

What

Advanced Practicum: Appreciative Coaching

Price

$255 – Book Included

Price

$210 – Book NOT Included

For coaches, managers, and mentors who have experience, either through my introductory class or another class designed to embed both the principles and stages of Appreciative Coaching, this is your chance to experiment and practice with the philosophy and coaching method. I have designed four, one hour sessions, to follow this format and meet these objectives:

Session 1: Questions that elicit ease in each of the four stages. We will begin with an expanded (from the book Appreciative Coaching: A Positive Process for Change) set of life-giving questions for coaches. Participants may choose to practice these questions with a current client. The objective is to expand your repertoire of questions and to enable a sense of ease with the creation of your own questions.

Session 2: Transitioning from one stage to the next. When is it time to complete the Discover stage? When is the Dream fully known? How do we Design when business goals disallow the language of Dreams is foreign? How do we know when we are ready to transition to Destiny? What does this look like anyway? We will explore bumpy transitions you have experienced with real time collaboration for smooth and confident completion.

Session 3: Dealing with Special Clients. Whether it is the habitually negative employee, or the driven executive who just wants results, how do we apply our positive principle to clients who see no advantage to being positive? Also, how do we deal with the deficit-based environment of much business coaching (assessments, development plans, performance management)?

Session 4: We will create a visual and audio “product” of our own best practices to reuse and treasure.