Solution Focused Coaching Part 4: Belief in the Client & Unconditional Positive Regard
Channel: BExceptional
Date: 14/01/2020

Solution Focused Coaching - Belief in the Client.
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Welcome to this fourth video in my series on Solution Focused Coaching – in this video, I'll discuss the importance of belief and how in my opinion it's more important than the Rogerian Principle of unconditional positive regard.
 
The solution-focused coach should have unerring faith in the client’s ability to martial their own resources, skills, strengths and experience to find pathways to their preferred future. This unshakeable belief in the client is an essential ingredient of a solution-focused coach and anyone who has studied the evidence base on therapy or coaching would know that this is also embedded in the DNA of successful client outcomes.
 
Someone asked me recently if the Rogerian mantra of having “unconditional positive regard” for the client is the same thing and my response is that although it’s a well used and very sound principle, I would argue that it isn’t always necessary for a successful outcome.
 
In fact, some of the latest evidence suggests that a ‘neutral regard’ for the client and a belief that the clients’ own resources are easy enough to solve their own problems, is a key to successful outcomes.
 
The bottom line you don’t have to positively regard everything your client says and does, it’s far better to stay neutral and focus on the job at hand, which is 1) helping them to identify their future hopes and goals and then 2) staying a 100% focused on helping them achieve them.
 
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