Coaching Questions: A Coach's Guide to Powerful Asking Skills Tony Stoltzfus
Publisher: Pegasus Creative Arts

Coaching Questions: A Coach's Guide to Powerful Asking Skills. Get heartfelt solid advice from 12 leading coaches who share the common theme their clients struggled with and tips to overcome them. 12 leading coaches' powerful tips for your best 2013. Bold questions is in the middle of this list for a reason. Success | Personal Development | Motivational Coaching & Business Strategy. Three kinds of questions that underscore the power in your coaching relationship. That was You certainly don't want to be compared to college football coaches like Kansas State's Stan Parrish (2-30-1), Northwestern's Rick Venturi (1-31-1) or Richard Varis of the University of Virginia (1-29). But how can you improve your question-asking skills so that these moments happen more often? And action steps are the cores skills that function as the building blocks of effective coaching. Imagine a room full of an organization's Leadership Team embracing change and integrating the language of coaching into their existing skill set and how they show up on a daily basis? It was shared with me recently after one day of coach training and during the day two energizer when I asked, “What gets you jazzed to get going? This understanding together with what you value will guide you in the direction of greater happiness and the fulfillment you seek. In doing so you might just unlock the door to being the best you can be. *Source:Adapted from "Coaching Questions: A Coach's Guide to Powerful Asking Skills, Tony Stoltzfus. I was having a chat with a business partner the other day about how sales managers often complain that their sales reps don't LISTEN and ASK QUESTIONS very well. While sales reps see all influence.” Whether you're a coach or a sales rep (you're both if you're a coach selling your own services), your sales questions need to be just deep enough to guide the customer to a decision, not to solve their problems. There are four very important questions I ask my clients when they are unsure about whether or not to take a particular path. BAM Questions The holy grail of being a coach is asking that question that causes Moments like those, are why coaching is so powerful. Reflection brings transformation. Coaches often see selling as distasteful and separate from coaching. The challenge is to quiet the mind, listen and ask powerful questions that elicit and evoke thinking in a collaborative framework. Instead of being “Sages on the Stage,” teachers became “Guides on the Side.” Better yet It carried the message that this particular teacher understood individual differences among his or her students and had the skills to bring out the best in each kid.