Many of the services being provided by professional coaches (especially executive coaches) focus on the problems being faced by a client and/or on the decisions that a client must make. Along with my colleague, Agnes Mura, I have even identified a specific branch of professional coaching as “decisional coaching.” This branch exists alongside of what Agnes and I (in coachbook) identify as behavioral coaching and aspirational coaching. The Coach Quad’s documentation of perspectives and practices of professional coaching includes the following essays devoted to this critical coaching function. As a professional coach, one must have strategies and tools for effective problem-solving and decision-making in their coaching arsenal whether majoring in decisional coaching or focusing occasionally on problem-solving and decision-making in their personal or organizational coaching practices.

Problem-Solving: Domains, Causes and Actions

Link: Problem-Solving: Domains, Causes and Actions – Coach Quad

Solving Problems: Domains, Causes and Actions

Reframing as an Essential Coaching Strategy and Tool

Link:Reframing as an Essential Coaching Strategy and Tool – Coach Quad

Reframing as an Essential Coaching Strategy and Tool

The Empowerment Pyramid

Link: The Empowerment Pyramid: Building the Capacity for Effective Decision-Making – Coach Quad

The Empowerment Pyramid: Building the Capacity for Effective Decision-Making