Every coaching conversation needs a destination before it can move. Dr. Deborah Teplow on the one question to ask before anything else.
What Would Make This Conversation Worthwhile?
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Your Clients Are Motivated. So What Builds Follow-Through?
Clients agree to the plan and mean it. Then the week gets hard. Follow-through isn’t a motivation problem, and it has a structural answer.
What MI Counts. What SF Keeps.
MI’s 2:1 reflection ratio is a technically demanding standard. Solution-Focused practice works through a different mechanism: keeping the client’s exact words rather than reshaping them.
How Optimism Can Get in the Way of Effective Coaching
Optimism helps clients believe in change. But the coaches who ask what happens when it doesn’t go well are the ones who help clients stay the course.
Beyond Motivational Interviewing: Dr. Deborah Teplow at the Coach Catalyst Nutrition Summit
Dr. Deborah Teplow’s full session from the Coach Catalyst Nutrition Summit. Why motivated clients don’t follow through, and what builds follow-through instead.
Two Kinds of Precision
The Solution-Focused approach uses the client’s exact words in the next question. Motivational Interviewing trains the opposite skill. Here’s why the difference matters.
Practice Before It Counts: SolutionCoach AI™ Gets a Major Upgrade
Stamina Lab announces a major upgrade to SolutionCoach AI, the practice partner that lets health professionals rehearse coaching conversations in private.
Mechanism vs. Preparation: Why Solution-Focused Coaching Starts Change in Session One
Stop waiting for session three to see progress. Learn how the Solution-Focused approach acts as a mechanism for change from the very first question.
Beyond Volume: Why Solution-Focused Outcomes are the New Gold Standard for Program Directors
For program directors in healthcare and performance coaching, the question is no longer about the volume of research behind an approach. It is about outcome density and clinical efficiency. Here is what the SF evidence shows.
Listen, Select, Build
A client can talk at length. You don’t need the whole story, only one piece you can build on. How Solution-Focused listening works.