The Coaching Habit

Every fibre of your body is twitching with a desire to fix it, solve it, offer a solution to it. You’re ...

You’ve become the VP of Bottlenecking. You need a way to manage the temptation to jump into fixing t ...

pontificate about the high-level or abstract challenges in a situation. The “for you” is what pins the qu ...

lean confidently in. “So,” you ask, “what’s on your mind?” It comes tumbling out. “There’s the webs ...

Focus Question: “What’s the real challenge here for you?” WITHOUT A GOOD QUESTION, A GOOD ANSWER HAS NO P ...

“John. He’s a nightmare. Never before have I met someone who suffers more acutely from SOS: ...

here for you?”—will get you there. Symptoms of Coaching the Ghost They’re talking on and on about anothe ...

“Now, I think in general, the challenge with culture change is that there’s a difference between ...

person at hand. To do that, you’d ask something like this: “I have a sense of the overall chall ...

Trust That You’re Being Useful When you start shifting your behaviour from giving advice and prov ...

Asking, “What’s the real challenge here for you?” Good. Adding, “And what else? What else is a real ...

and you’re trying to fix them all or they all seem equally important; or when the problem is som ...

multitasking. But there’s more to this question than just providing the focus that will liberate cr ...

Question Masterclass Part 4 Stick to Questions Starting with “What” Peter Senge was big in the 1990s ...

You put them on the defensive. Get the tone even slightly wrong and suddenly your “Why... ?” come across ...

Reframe the question so it starts with “What.” So, as some examples, instead of “Why did you do th ...

An Irresistible 1-2-3 Combination The first three questions can combine to become a robust script for your c ...

most useful to look at. Ask: And what else (is the real challenge here for you)? Trust me, the person w ...

4: The Foundation Question In which the question that lies at the very heart of adult-to-adult relation ...

The Foundation Question: “What Do You Want?” Taking responsibility for your own freedom is notoriously difficult ...