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COACHING TOOL 5 Changing your perspective

CREATIVE THINKING Creative thinking is the ability to come up with new solutions to problems by intentionally
The ability to solve situations, problems or challenges using different approaches

learning new insights and contrasting ideas through existing information. Inspire your
coachee to cultivate different styles of thinking.

Changing your perspective is an exercise inspired in The Coaching Game - Points of View that
helps us to overcome our automatic tendency to give meaning to things using our known
perceptions via which we see the world. Neutralising “automation” allows us quickly to
realise another point of view, another perspective, which wasn’t in our radar beforehand.

This coaching tool gives you a set 15 cards and a set of four question cards that you can use
with your coachee in order to improve or strengthen her creative thinking skills.

STEP BY STEP GUIDANCE
Consider preparing yourself before implementing this exercise first. Make sure that your coachee is
comfortable and provide her with a relaxed environment. If you have time, consider dedicating one
session to this exercise. If not, save at least 60 minutes to do it properly.
Step 1 Print the pictures listed below. 5X8 size is more than enough.
Place the pictures below in a table as a set of cards, either face up or face down, and ask
Step 2
her to choose one card
Step 3 Make sure the words in the pictures are covered with a post-it. You will remove it later
Invite her to look at the picture as if she was in front of a work of art.
Step 4
Let her be guided through your questions in silence
Scrutinize it down into the smallest details not focusing merely on the central element.
Step 5 See the guide “Scrutinize the picture | questions O1” and follow the directions. As she
notices the little elements that speak to her, she expands her perspective
Again, while studying the picture, ask her, in a relaxed fashion, a new set of questions to
Step 6 expand her creativity. See the guide “Expanding the picture | questions 02” and follow
directions
Now ask your coachee to uncover the word and “play with it.”
Step 7 There is also a lot of ‘pearls’ within a word as well as associations she can make it. See
the guide “Diving into words’ meanings | questions 03”
Right now, look at the entirety of the picture and the word together and prompt the
Step 8
following questions. See the guide “Altogether now… | questions 04”
We strongly recommend that you keep asking questions: ask every question that comes
Step 9 into you mind. The more questions you ask the more you expand the point of view of
each card and the more you help her to exercise her creative thinking skills
At this point your coachee is ready to go deeper within the session. You can choose to
Step 10 play around with the meaning of the card, or you can tap into issues concerning the
coachee general needs

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