Tools of the trade
By Carol Wilson (December 2008 Issue)
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This month we explore the types of goals that are most effective in performance coaching and why they work. Goal setting is fundamental to the solution-focussed discipline of coaching, so let us start by exploring how this came to be so.
Up to the middle of the last century, psychology focussed on identifying what was wrong and fixing it; then Maslow and Perlz, among others, pioneered a new approach that looked at the best that people could be and concentrated on bringing them back to that ideal state.
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