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Asking Mistakes Coaches Make: the Top Five

From long experience as a coach trainer, here’s my personal list of the top five asking mistakes coaches make (excerpted from the book, Coaching Questions by Tony Stoltzfus).

Asking Mistakes #1: Closed Questions

Number one on our list of asking mistakes is—closed questions! Open questions are powerful questions and have two important benefits...

August 24, 2020
6 min read

Encounter Coaching: When Jesus Steps into the Conversation

Over the years, I’ve heard a lot of coaches from the charismatic stream wrestle with the question of how to integrate coaching and the prophetic. They value both, but they don’t always mix very well. Prophecy is hearing God and telling someone what he said, but the coaching approach frowns on telling. So what’s a coach to do? Today I want to show you a simple yet quite powerful way to get the best of both: Encounter Coaching...

August 24, 2020
3 min read

Coaching People Out of Flatlander Thinking

Years ago I read a well-known book on the life of King David that really made an impact on me – just not one that I think the author intended! It was where I learned about living what I call “Flatlander Thinking.”

While David is probably my favorite Biblical character, I wasn’t getting much out of the book until I started to tune into the author’s point of view...