Jonathan Passmore

This article is the fifth in a series for The Coaching Psychologist which is drawn from the Motivational Interviewing (MI) approach. In the previous papers I have summarised briefly the principles of MI (Passmore, 2011a). In four further papers for the techniques section I have offered a perspective on the application of ‘Reflective listening’ (Passmore 2011b), ‘The balance sheet technique’ (Passmore, 2011c), a ‘Typical day’ (Passmore, 2012a) and ‘Recognising change talk’ (Passmore 2012b).

In this paper I will briefly review a ‘technique’ which is at the start of the MI process and while not formalised in much of the coaching literature is a common practice among coaching psychologists when using Cognitive Behavioural Coaching and behavioural-based approaches such as GROW. This technique, Agenda Mapping, aims to help the coach and coachee to agree the focus for the coaching conversation.

Full article: The Coaching Psychologist, Vol. 9, No. 1, June 2013 Page 32-35