• Requesting asks the coachee to think bigger, act bolder or liberate themselves from something.
• Coaches make requests when the coachee is stuck, holding back or selling themselves short.
• Requests send a powerful message that the coach sees something bigger for them.
• A request is constructed by seeing the opportunity to make a request, making the request and then allowing the coachee to accept, reject or negotiate the request.
• It is important for the coach to anchor the commitment to the request by asking for a deadline or timeline and specific action(s).

Note: Requesting is the one skill that is new to many. Its sounds easy and logical at first, yet it is a skill because it is hard to do effectively in the moment without showing judgement, bias or directing the coachee.