This is a light-hearted look at Solution Focused performance coasting. The best part about it is that with this tool you can help your kids and all their friends get the university places and jobs they want, help them do well in exams and help yourself give the best wedding speech ever!

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SOLUTION FOCUSED COACHING
BUILDING PEFORMANCE
Chris Iveson
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7-8 Newbury Street
London EC1A 7HU

2. HOW TO . . .
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How to get across a whole way of
working to a couple of hundred
coaches who don’t speak your
language.
After this you may say:
“First of all go to an art class!”
However, what follows does
illustrate the description process
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3. A Performance
Conversation
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COACH What are your best hopes
from this session?
CLIENT I am very worried about
tomorrow’s board meeting – I’m
not sure I can handle all the
issues I really need be at my best.
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4. Being at your best
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COACH Let’s imagine you wake up
tomorrow and find that you are at
your best, ready for whatever the day
brings.
What might be the first thing you
notice as you wake up that begins to
tell you that this is a day when you
are at your best?
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This is such a slow and difficult
task I’m going to take a short
cut! In the real session each
point in the picture was
described. The most important
part of each description was the
interactions between the client
and each of the (named)
‘witnesses’ of his behaviour.
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15. The Board!!!!
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Ready for anything!

17. At your best!
The session stopped here with
the coach trusting that he would
know best what to do and being
at his best he was likely to
produce the best performance.
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18. At your best!
For a complete transcript of
another ‘At your best’
conversation go to the BRIEF
Blog “Chapter 9” on
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http://www.brief.org.uk/blog/?p=
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