Asking Powerful Questions

  Table of Contents In this Coaching Questions article you will find: The Purpose of Coaching Questions Asking Questions is a Key Coaching Skill Why is Asking Questions so...

What's your favourite colour? What are you immediately thinking about? While the question is simple, what just occurred in your brain has profound implications. What happens when you're asked a...

Inquiry is a core process and way of being in coaching. In my practice I have observed that creative, generative, powerful questioning is one of coaching's greatest strengths. Powerful questions support...

Building and crafting your toolkit is important for group and team coaches. Just as with coaching individuals, our conversations are going to touch on a variety of different topic areas, using a range of...

Most coaches know how to be supportive, encouraging, and curious. However, creating a new awareness takes more than building trust and rapport. As the conversations go deeper, you might need to generate a...

Questions can focus, expand, slow down and accelerate the coaching conversation. As coaches, questions are often all we need to engage in masterful coaching conversations with our clients. How we use coaching...

The skill of questioning is crucial in coaching, as it is your questions that move clients into deeper and deeper levels of awareness. But what is it that makes a powerful question powerful? After all, a...

Never Get Stuck in a Coaching Session Again! It's happened to us all, especially when starting out: we freeze in a coaching session and literally can't think what to ask or say next. The great thing in...

In coaching, softeners are simply a few words you use just before asking a difficult question to literally 'soften the blow'. By using a softener, you're subconsciously preparing your clients for a...