The 10 Most Powerful Coaching Questions (Infographic)

This month, our theme is coaching questions - and there's no doubt coaches love powerful coaching questions! Now, we don't want to be formulaic when we ask questions of our clients, but it's also helpful to have some powerful coaching questions in our toolboxes to pull out when needed. So, we hope you love this graphic!

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Here are 10 Powerful Coaching Questions - and Why!

My favourite coaching question? Well, it's hard to have a favourite, but if I had to choose it would be 6: What would be the best question I could ask you now? Because this coaching question works in any situation. It helps the client put themselves in a coaching frame of mind, and places the client firmly in the driving seat of the conversation.

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  3. CHALLENGE: Write a few sentences about each question, sharing when you would use it - and why. Give your potential clients an insight into coaching and share daily to inspire fans to hire you. Or turn into a blog post!

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What are you favorite coaching questions? We'd love for you to comment below.

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Contributing Author:

Emma-Louise Elsey is passionate about kindness, coaching and personal development and has been coaching since 2003. She's the Founder and Former CEO of The Coaching Tools Company, and Founder of Fierce Kindness. Originally a project and relationship manager for Fortune 500 companies she loves to create coaching tools and exercises, including lots of free coaching tools for you here at The Coaching Tools Company. Through Fierce Kindness she helps people create a life they love, make a difference and learn to be kind to themselves.

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6 Comments

  1. Olga

    Emma-Louise, thank you so much for the great work you are doing. Best wishes from Odessa, Ukraine.
    Your content is a huge support for me!!!

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    • Emma-Louise

      Dear Olga, thank-you for your lovely comment 🙂 And very glad you <3 these coaching questions and our content! Warmly, Emma-Louise

      Reply

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