Daniele Catalanotto

Daniele Catalanotto

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Do you need a Service Design coach when you can use AI or a Google search?

For getting knowledge, AI and Google search are awesome. Coaching with a humans brings a few extras: unexpected questions, refusal to answer a question, putting you in touch with others and flexibility.

What digital tools can you use for your coaching sessions?

In short: Miro or Canva are great for collecting visual notes, Zoom is great for video calls, calendly can be helpful to schedule calls.

What are helpful references when it comes to coaching?

In short: the double diamond for the separation of divergent and convergent thinking and Motivational Interviewing that teaches you that information is not the problem, motivation is.

How can you rebuild the motivation of a person?

In short: Ask people to rate how important something is for them and then ask them why that number isn't lower.

How can you help people to find the solutions to their problems by themselves?

In short: Make people give advice to their twin.

What is an idiolectical coaching conversation?

What is an idiolectical coaching conversation?

In short: it's an explorative coaching method where the coach builds on the words of the coaches and asks concrete, short questions without reframing, synthesis, modeling or association.

Why I use "banana" as a safe word in coaching sessions ?

Why I use "banana" as a safe word in coaching sessions ?

In short: Setting a safe word to stop the interaction before getting deep or provocative announces a shift, gives control to the coachee, and makes the challenge lighter through humor.

How do I use drawing in my coaching sessions

In short: I use drawing for translating ideas, for understanding what someone says or simply for visual note taking.