Breakthrough Coaching: Creating Lightbulb Moments in Your Coaching Conversations

  • 3h 2m
  • Marcia Reynolds
  • Berrett-Koehler Publishers
  • 2024

Light bulb moments in coaching are the creative insights that change minds and lives.

A new, highly actionable guide for disrupting the narratives holding clients back from resolving problems and making the changes they want in themselves, Breakthrough Coaching provides methods, resources, and exercises to help you activate immediate and sustainable shifts in perspective and behavior, moving you forward on your path of coaching mastery.

Stop being haunted by doubt and discomfort. Discover how to quickly create safety and connection so your clients accept when you challenge their thinking. Then know what to say that evokes the creative flashes of insight that change their minds and lives forever.

Read Breakthrough Coaching to unlock access to:

  • 5 Modules of learning and discovery
  • 19 Resource Tools and 5 Practice Exercises
  • Coaching case studies and examples
  • And so much more

No longer will you worry "can I really say that?" or "should I have said more?" Instead, you'll be able to reveal deep desires and dreams, shine a light on blind spots and mental blocks, and open your client's minds to new perspectives that change their stories ripe with new possibilities-in less than an hour of your time together.

About the Author

Dr. Marcia Reynolds, president of Covisioning LLC, travels the world speaking and teaching classes in advanced coaching skills, leadership, and emotional engagement. She helps leaders better engage and influence others, especially in a world where employees demand to be respected and engaged in many ways. Her clients love the lightness she brings as she teaches them to be more courageous in their conversations. She has spoken 35 countries and presented at Harvard Kennedy School and Cornell University. She is also the Training Director for the Healthcare Coaching Institute. She has advanced degrees in psychology, communications and education.

In this Book

  • Introduction: The Science of Learning and the Role of the Coach
  • What it Means to Embody a Coaching Mindset
  • Aligning Your Nervous System
  • Choosing Your Emotions
  • Catching and Releasing Your Judgmental Reactions
  • How to Shift to Coach the Person While Seeking to Solve a Problem
  • What are You Listening for That Can Lead to a Breakthrough?
  • The Value of Reflecting Emotional Expressions
  • How to Coach Insights out of Emotional Moments
  • The Need for a Clear, Observable Desired Outcome
  • Clarifying Obstacles to Achieving Desires
  • Recognizing Changes to the Outcome as Thinking Evolves
  • Coaching Through Resistance
  • Looking Inside the Operating System
  • The Strengths and Snags of Social Needs
  • The Importance of Values Alignment
  • Solidifying a New Awareness to Wrap Up the Breakthrough Process
  • Aligning Insights with Commitments
  • The Measure of Value in Coaching
  • Looking Ahead: What Does the Future of Coaching Look Like?
  • Notes
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