Invisible Coaching - the Art of Natural Coaching

Learn to think and act like a natural coach

An essential skill for all managers . . .

sales people, parents, teenagers, and all!

"What would be the most useful question for me to ask you now?"

Learn to think and act like a natural coach

The most subtle and effective coaching is invisible, the person being coached should not be conscious of being coached - just more aware of issues and options, more open to change.

Invisible Coaching just happens; without formally deciding to, you naturally behave in a way that helps people change.

Brefi Group's breakthrough programme, featuring Coaching on a Credit Card, teaches the art of natural coaching. It is a simple, easy to learn but powerful system that teaches you to coach while you use it.

Learn the fundamental coaching question

The most important lesson to learn is that the client does know what they need - even if they don't know that they know what they need!

That is why the fundamental coaching question is so powerful:-

"What would be the most useful question for me to ask you now?"

Not only is this really effective, but its use continuously reinforces the message that the client really does know best. This the first step towards creating the mindset of a natural coach.

The more often you ask the question, the more examples of really good questions you will learn from real people in real situations.

Follow this course and discover that coaching is so simple - the challenge is to accept the simplicity and then just do it!

Testimonials

"My mind was blown when I realised the difference between teaching and coaching. And then when I started to address the process of meetings with questions (rather than providing solutions), my communication and relationships improved."

"You taught me a lot more than I probably gave you credit for at the time. Maybe I wasn't even fully aware of it at the time."

"The program is a fantastic tool to leapfrog self, business and relationships manifold in a short duration of time. A true, life skill learning. An extremely useful program for people at leadership and sales positions."

"It has been excellent. The passion and commitment shown by the trainers is just great. The content of the course also has been practical. Great coaching by great people."

"It is a must for someone who is willing to improve. A very good foundational experience, good for even those who are not going to take up coaching as a career and good self learning tool."

"I enjoyed learning to be a coach and it not only helps others perform better but myself too!"

"If you are even remotely thinking of going into "coaching", call these guys!"

Coaching on a Credit Card

A teaching aid becomes a magic tool

Some years ago I was on the Board of Governors of the International Association of Coaching. At one of the board meetings we had to decide whether to allow advertising from a company selling distance learning and claiming to be able to teach people to coach in 16 hours.

I was outraged. I had recently designed a coach training programme for professional coaches that would take 16 months. How could anyone claim to be able to do it in 16 hours?

Then I remembered that, actually, I could teach someone to coach in 16 minutes (and I have since tested this repeatedly).

Obviously, there is a big difference between learning to coach and becoming a coach. Nonetheless, I can legitimately claim to be able to teach people to coach in 16 minutes. And the video above is some evidence for this.

How did this arise?

Many years ago, I had been asked to develop a coach training course for a company in Sofia, Bulgaria.

​My biggest challenge was to decide how to STOP coaches from offering solutions. Everybody likes to be helpful - especially when they can clearly see a solution to somebody else's problem. 

However, the concept of coaching is that by raising awareness we should be able to help others not only to find a solution for themselves, but also to learn a process that will enable them to repeat it in the future.

So it is very important NOT to offer solutions; only to provide the process.

But the brain abhors a vacuum.

So telling a coach not to offer solutions is unhelpful. Rather, we must provide an alternative.

Then I remembered a phrase I had learned many years before on an NLP course. 

"What would be the most useful question for me to ask you now?"

It can be used in any situation and, very importantly, it is non-directive.

Refining the idea

I have tested this approach with great success, and since added six "Trigger Questions". The idea is to establish a pattern in a coach's mind so that whenever they hear a particular type of statement their brain has an automatic response.

I believe that with sufficient rapport you could conduct a whole career as a professional coach using only the fundamental question. But it is much more flexible and less intimidating to combine it with the six triggers.

Whilst it is important to be disciplined and use only these seven questions during training, once the pattern is embedded more flexible questions will naturally arise.

The benefits

• As you use this process you learn lots of really powerful questions from the people you are coaching - thus expanding your portfolio of questions as you develop to becoming a sophisticated coach.

• Since the person being coached has control of the questions they will be more adventurous in what they are prepared to challenge; prepared to offer questions that might have been too intrusive if suggested by the coach.

• The process can be totally content free. This means that a coaching session can be conducted without the coach knowing anything about the issues being addressed - not  even what the issues are. As a result, inexperienced coaches - or managers, or parents of teenagers -  can help with issues that are both private and sensitive. 

Invisible Coaching - the art of natural coaching

Coaching on a Credit Card has naturally evolved into a fully rounded coaching programme: 'Invisible Coaching - the art of natural coaching'.

It has been expanded to include many of the processes from my professional programme to enable you to become successful as a coach, teaching you more about the attitudes and behaviours of successful coaches.

More skills, more models, more questions - more influence, better relationships.

What to do next

The complete Invisible Coaching programme has been filmed so that you can study at home.

Watch presentations, exercise and feedback discussions. Download the workbook and handouts.

We have three options for you:

You can find out more, just learn the process - or develop full coaching skills and improve your communications.

Choose your course today.

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