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INQUIRY –A Best Practice
Ask Questions that Promote Discovery for the Other Person
Ask Questions that Focus on the Person Being Coached
Powerful Questions
Invite clarity, action, and discovery at a new level
Create greater possibility for expanded learning and fresh
perspective
Powerful Requests
Powerful requests are ways to cause change; to stir thought
forward and cause action.
“I request that you . . .”
“I have a bold request for you.”
The Power of Story Listening
Stories make sense of experience in ways that integrate emotion
and meaning –facilitating movement, direction, and purpose.
Stories evoke power.
FEED FORWARD instead of feedback.
Is there a problem with feedback?
Feedback focuses on a past, what has already occurred –not on
opportunities in the future. Not fun.
Feedforwardlooks at future actions, is fun as well as not
negative.
Some Powerful Coaching Questions
(adapted from Co-Active Coaching by Whitworth, Kimsey-House
& Sandahl)
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What do you think will happen?
What’s you back-up plan?
How does it look to you?