The Coaching Habit: 7 Great Questions - Results Coaching Global (2024)

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The Coaching Habit: 7 Great Questions - Results Coaching Global? ›

Powerful questions are provocative queries that put a halt to evasion and confusion. By asking the powerful question, the coach invites the client to clarity, action, and discovery at a whole new level.

Powerful questions are provocative queries that put a halt to evasion and confusion. By asking the powerful question, the coach invites the client to clarity, action, and discovery at a whole new level.

Forever Employable Stories: Michael Bungay Stanier, Best-Selling Author of “The Coaching Habit”

The 5Cs are represented by the attributes and skills of commitment, communication, concentration, control and confidence - with the goal of helping organisations create 'psychologically-informed environments' that nurture the 5Cs in young athletes.

Coaches embody numerous traits, which can be categorized into what we call the “3 C's” of exceptional coaches — curiosity, courage, and compassion.

Asking Closed Questions

For example the question 'are you going to take some action' presents the option of 'yes' or 'no' but does not encourage your coachee to consider what action they want to take. Asking closed questions can also give the coachee an opportunity to hide the truth.

What do you hope to achieve in our time together today? What would you like to take away from our conversation? What do you need to accomplish from our discussion?

Which question would you answer? Leading questions: These tend to be questions which suggest there is a right or wrong answer. Some people refer to these questions as advice in disguise – they pose as questions but really they are all about what the coach developer thinks is the right answer.

However, while she did have a lot of natural talent, Oprah has admitted that she owes her success to her life coach Martha Beck.

Who is the godfather of coaching? ›

Steve Chandler is a life coach and business coach and one of America's best-selling authors whose 34 books have been translated into over 30 foreign language editions throughout Europe, China, Japan, the Middle East and Latin America.

The Advice Monster is the small voice inside your head that tells you the only way you add value to your organization is by having all the answers. Or it tells you you're the most responsible person in the organization and you have to hold everything together or else chaos will ensue.

What do you hope to achieve in our time together today? What would you like to take away from our conversation? What do you need to accomplish from our discussion?

“What's the real challenge here for you?” When we jump into problem-solving before we have a complete understanding of the issue from the employee's point of view, we tend to solve the part of the problem that we assume they are struggling with which may or may not be accurate.