1. Presentation title
along here
Using Positive Psychology in
Executive Coaching
Stephanie Hopper

2. Definition: Positive Psychology
“The scientific study of optimal human functioning
[that] aims to discover and promote the factors that
allow individuals and communities to thrive.”
Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi (2000)

3. Mind Map of Positive Psychology

4. STRENGTHS
Part One

5. People who use their Strengths are:
More
Resilient Happier &
More
Confident
Have
Higher
Levels of
Energy
Experience
less stress
More Likely
to Achieve
their Goals
More
Engaged &
Perform
Better

6. Definition of a strength
1. You do it well – Performance
2. You feel good doing it – Energy
3. You do it a lot – Use
(Linley, Willars, Biswas-Diener)
Performance Energy Usage

7. Strengths Spotting: Example Questions
• Tell me a story about when you were
at your best?
• What energises you about the
present?
• What are you looking forward to in the
near future?

8. BEST POSSIBLE FUTURE SELF
Part Two

9. Best Possible Future Self
• What career goals have you achieved?
• What personal goals have you
achieved?
• What or who would be present in your
life?
• What changes would you have made?
Coach’s Role: To help your client identify the
steps that will need to take to get them from
where they are now to where they want to be

10. MINDSETS
Part Three

12. Mindsets
“The view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the
way you lead your life.”
Dweck, 2006

13. Fixed Mindset Growth Mindset
Intelligence is staIc
Intelligence can be
developed
Desire to Look Smart Desire to Learn
Tendency to – avoid
challenges, give up easily,
ignore useful improvement
feedback & feel threatened
by success of others
Tendency to – embrace
challenges, persist, learn
from improvement feedback
and find lessons &
inspiraIon from the success
of others.

14. Fixed Mindset Growth Mindset
Goal: ValidaIon from
others & achievement
Goal: Mastery &
Compentence
“I don’t get it”
“this is too hard”
“the harder it gets the
harder I try”
Results & Measures indicate
potenIal .
Success & Failure cause
Anxiety.
Results & Measures reflect
how someone is doing NOW
not their potenIal.
Learning can Increase
Performance & enjoyment.

17. MOTIVATION
Part Four

18. Motivation Formula
Autonomy
MasteryPurpose