Coaching – The Power of Questions

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Coaching – The Power of Questions


Learning Objectives

You will be able to explain what coaching is and how it differs from teaching or training.

You will be able to describe the different types of questions a coach may use.

You will be able to explain the importance of asking questions when coaching.

You will be able to demonstrate the ability to frame and ask different types of questions while coaching.


Discuss…

What is coaching?

What is the difference between coaching and teaching?


Our definition of coaching

A style of management in which the manager encourages people to reach their full potential by encouraging self-belief and self-development.


Teaching and training involve transferring knowledge and skills

to other people.


How does a coach help someone to improve if that individual is already a better performer than the coach?

Discuss…


Our definition of coaching

A style of management in which the manager encourages people to reach their full potential by encouraging self-belief and self-development.


How do people improve?

Self-belief gives people the drive.

Self-development gives them the means.


Encouraging success…

Helping people to set goals for themselves that stretch them beyond what they can comfortably achieve but which are within their capacity.

Helping them to achieve those goals by encouraging them to devise and implement their own effective action plans.


Encouraging self-development…

Helping them to review their experiences and to draw appropriate lessons from them.

Helping them to understand themselves better by providing neutral, objective feedback.


More aware

By providing feedback

By asking questions


Neutral feedback

“Your right foot was about two inches in front of your left when you landed.”


Judgmental feedback

“No, your feet are still not together all the way through.”


Judgmental feedback

“You are really good with people.”


Neutral feedback

“Three of your people have told me that they feel very motivated working for you. When I asked why this was they said it was because you worked so hard yourself.

One person told me that she felt you took too much on yourself and did not delegate enough to her.”


Discuss providing feedback…

Choose a piece of feedback that you would like to give to one of your staff or to a colleague.

1.Devise a judgmental form of words.

2.Devise a neutral form of words.


Characters

Angela – Marketing Assistant

Shawna – Sales and marketing manager

Chris – Operations Manager

Wayne – Account ManagerHaq – IT Manager


There’s been a problem with converting the customer instruction input system to the Internet.

The Story


Questions

• Help people become more aware

• Help people think things through


Types of questions

• Clarify

• Simplify

• Multiply

• Will it fly?

• Do it by?


Questions that increase awareness

• What do you think is the effect on your team of your adopting this approach?

• How confident are you that you are going to achieve your goal at the current rate of progress?

• How stressed do you feel about this?


Questions that help people think

• What other approaches might you consider?

• What would the effect of that be on your department?

• How would you know if you had succeeded in this goal?


Discuss…

Identify an area of performance that you would like a colleague to think about. Devise a question that would help him or her to do this.

• Avoid manipulative questions.

• Be open about your reasons for asking.


Practice


Coaching – The Power of Questions

Coaching – The Power of Questions

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