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‘What will help you move higher?’
‘How high does it have to be before you make an attempt to
change?’
‘What can I do to help?’
2. Exploring importance
‘What are the benefits of your present situation?’
‘What are some of the less good things?’
3. Summarise
‘Where does that leave you now?’
4. Building confidence
‘In the past, what has been helpful when you have tried to …?’
‘Is there anything you can learn from these past attempts?’
‘Is there anything you can learn from other people’s attempts to
change?’
5. Exchanging information
How you share information and your expertise is important.
‘How much do you already know about …?’
‘Some people find that …how about you?’
‘How do you see the connection between …. and your
problems?’
‘Is there anything more you’d like to know about …?’
6. Reducing resistance
Understand what causes the resistane that the coachee is
feeling:
The coachee may be holding on to an existing situation, no
matter how bad it is, because at least, they are familiar with it
and they are afraid of how changing to a new situation will
affect their lives.
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