Skill: Questioning Copy

5.5.5 Topics
5.5.5 Key Learning Points
Skill: Questioning
  • Title slide
  • What makes a Question Powerful?
  • Constructing Powerful Questions
  • Open Ended Questions
  • Clean Questions
  • Variety of Questions
  • Exercise: Popcorn Style
  • Key learning points
  • Be Accepting and Questioning
  • Powerful questions unlock a coachee’s resourcefulness and teach the coachee they have the answers within them.
  • To ask powerful questions, the coach needs to ask from a place of genuine curiosity.
  • Constructing powerful questions requires the use of open ended, clean and a variety of questions.
  • There are four foundational kinds of questions in coaching: Clarifying, Self Awareness, Challenging and Action.

Note: Using the questioning exercise is powerful here to demonstrate the skill. 

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