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.
How Optimism Can Get in the Way of Effective Coaching
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What Gives Follow-Through Its Best Chance
Motivation is a state. It fades when the client is tired or stressed. Why a described preferred future, not motivation, gives follow-through its best chance.
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.
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.
The Question Is the Intervention: Glen Lubbert on the Hello, Brain Podcast
Stamina Lab CEO Glen Lubbert joins the Hello, Brain podcast on why habits break, where agency hides, and why the question is the intervention.
The ‘Readiness’ Myth: Why the Structure of the Conversation Matters More Than the Client’s Motivation
Stop blaming lack of follow-through on client readiness. Discover how the starting point and structure of your coaching conversations dictate behavioral outcomes.
Stop Mirroring the Struggle: Why Your ‘Deep Empathy’ Might Be Keeping Your Clients Stuck
When you mirror a client’s frustration, you may be keeping their brain locked in the problem. Here’s the neural reason why deep empathy can stall change — and the question that unlocks momentum instead.
Listen for Exceptions. Don’t Dig for Them.
When a client returns saying nothing changed, there is one workable line in there. How to find it and build on what they are already doing.