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Coaching Questions Start Significant Conversations
Coaching questions can be a great way of starting significant conversations: taking everyday conversations from surface to significance. Instead of asking, “How are you?” or “What’s new with you these...
Coaching Questions Start Significant Conversations
Coaching questions can be a great way of starting significant conversations: taking everyday conversations from surface to significance. Instead of asking, “How are you?” or “What’s new with you these...

The Discipline of Asking
The discipline of asking questions is one of the keys for a coach. Asking questions instead of dispensing answers is a tangible way of honoring a person’s capacity to run...
The Discipline of Asking
The discipline of asking questions is one of the keys for a coach. Asking questions instead of dispensing answers is a tangible way of honoring a person’s capacity to run...

Coaching with Reflection Exercises
For effective coaching with reflection exercises, consider making adaptations in the following areas to get the most out of them given the unique reflective style and personality type of each...
Coaching with Reflection Exercises
For effective coaching with reflection exercises, consider making adaptations in the following areas to get the most out of them given the unique reflective style and personality type of each...

Encouraging a Client Using the G.U.E.S.S. Acronym
Encouraging a client, or validating a person’s identity is the most powerful kind of affirmation. It’s great to hear you that you did something well: “You did a tremendous job...
Encouraging a Client Using the G.U.E.S.S. Acronym
Encouraging a client, or validating a person’s identity is the most powerful kind of affirmation. It’s great to hear you that you did something well: “You did a tremendous job...

Coaching Tool: Direct Questions
Coaching is not only about asking probing questions that are broad and indirect. Coaches also challenge clients to live up to their values, ask for steps to be chosen and...
Coaching Tool: Direct Questions
Coaching is not only about asking probing questions that are broad and indirect. Coaches also challenge clients to live up to their values, ask for steps to be chosen and...

Asking Solution Oriented Questions
When you first start coaching, it’s hard to sit back and allow the client time to explore. One sign that you’re pushing too hard is when you begin to ask...
Asking Solution Oriented Questions
When you first start coaching, it’s hard to sit back and allow the client time to explore. One sign that you’re pushing too hard is when you begin to ask...