Opening & Closing Questions with Style

15/11/2020 21 min
Opening & Closing Questions with Style

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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 questionsQuestions without judgement Non-leading questionsAsk one question -- and let your client talkTell me more… Can you give me an example of… ?What do you mean by… ?The wandering conversationAsking more intentional and interesting questionsLeaderShapeEnd 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 StudioBook:The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay StanierPodcasts: Coach to Coach Katie LinderDolly Parton’s AmericaWest Cork-----Want to learn more about coaching? Have a question or topic we should discuss? Let us know!Follow the pod on Twitter: @CoachingThruIt & Instagram: @CoachingThruItEmail us at: [email protected] Connect to the hosts: @laurapasquini & @julieclarsenMusic credit: The song reCreation by airtone has been remixed under a CC-BY license.