Opening & Closing Questions with Style

Coaching Opening Questions:

• How are you coming into our conversation today?
• What’s going on in your world?
• How are you landing into the call?
• What’s on your mind?
• What’s your story?

Removing the “advising” from our coaching with the following things:

• Open-ended questions
• Questions without judgement 
• Non-leading questions
• Ask one question -- and let your client talk
• Tell me more… 
• Can you give me an example of… ?
• What do you mean by… ?
• The wandering conversation
• Asking more intentional and interesting questions

LeaderShape

End of a Session Coaching Questions: 

• Do you think that we accomplished what we set out to do?
• What are you leaving here with?
• How are you feeling as you walk out the door?
• What are you leaving this session that is most useful for you today?
• What’s one thing have you learned from today?
• What are you going to think about from today’s coaching session?
• What’s resonating with you now?

James Lipton: 10 Questions from Inside the Actor Studio

Book:

The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier

Podcasts: 

Coach to Coach Katie Linder

Dolly Parton’s America

West Cork

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