Coaching Models & Conversation Frameworks
Structures for running a coaching conversation
29 tools in this category
- A Time to Think — Nancy Kline's method for giving someone real, uninterrupted thinking time instead of advice disguised as help.
- Accountability — Separates responsibility, authority and accountability itself to find exactly where the gap actually sits.
- Active Listening for Coaches — The discipline of listening at three levels - to the words, to the person, and to what is unsaid.
- Alpha Mindlink — A guided relaxation and visualisation routine, in the tradition of Suinn's Visuo-Motor Behavior Rehearsal, to mentally rehearse a goal, pitch, or
- Archetypes — Twelve universal character patterns for exploring leadership identity and which ones you're missing.
- Asking Powerful Questions — A working method for generating and testing coaching questions that open thinking rather than close it down.
- Brief Solution Focused Coaching — A short set of questions - miracle, scaling, exception - that moves clients from problem-talk to a next small step.
- Coaching (CCL) — Balance assessment, challenge and support - CCL's model for coaching that stretches without breaking trust.
- Coaching Models — A working set of coaching frameworks (GROW, OSKAR, CLEAR) - pick the one that fits, don't default to one.
- Delegation — Hand over outcomes, not just tasks - a sequence for delegating in a way that develops people.
- Executive Coaching — A structured coaching engagement - fit, stakeholder input, goals, sessions, review - not just talk.
- Heron's Intervention Styles — Six intervention styles, from directive to supportive, to widen a coach's or leader's default repertoire.
- Hesse Partners — A boutique facilitation and OD firm - curated facilitators design and run retreats, forum programmes and leadership sessions to your brief, not a
- Leadership Metaphor — Pick an image for your leadership now, and one for who you're becoming, to surface what words alone won't.
- Life Map Timeline — Plot your life from birth to today, positive above the line, negative below, and find what still shapes you.
- Milton Erickson — Uses what a person already brings as the material for change, through indirect suggestion rather than direct instruction.
- NLP — Treats thought, language and behaviour as changeable patterns, shifting a stuck response through rapport and reframing.
- Paradoxes & Polarity — Separates one-off problems from ongoing polarities, mapping each pole's upside and downside so attention keeps moving.
- Peer Supervision — A leaderless peer group works one practitioner's live case through structured turns of question and reflection.
- Positive Intelligence — Spot your saboteurs and build a 10-second habit that shifts you from reactive to resourceful under stress.
- Removing Roadblocks for High Performance — Sort what's actually blocking performance - belief, skill, structure, or relationship - before you fix it.
- Scenario Planning for Coaches — Bring scenario planning into a coaching conversation so a client tests plans against several futures, not one guess.
- Solutions Focused Coaching — Ask what's already working and build on it, rather than diagnosing what's wrong.
- Telling vs Asking — Locate your reflex position on the telling-to-asking continuum, then practice deliberately moving along it.
- Thinking Environment — Ten conditions, held together, that let a person think for themselves without being led or interrupted.
- Time to Think — The core two-person listening practice behind the Thinking Environment: one talks, one listens, no interrupting.
- What Color Is Your Parachute — Map skills, people, conditions and values onto seven petals to find the work that actually fits you.
- Whose Agenda? (CCL Continuum) — A telling-to-asking spectrum from Myles Downey's coaching model, for choosing, on purpose, how directive to be in a given moment.
- altMBA - Ship It Journal — A daily accountability log for finishing and sending work, not just working on it.