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Five Tips for Effective Coaching Questions Executive Coaching
People always ask me, “What exactly is coaching and how is it different from any other conversation?”
A coaching conversation is different from other conversations due to the amount of questions asked, and the type of questions asked.
In general, a coach should be doing 80% listening and 20% talking. If a coach is doing more talking than listening, then the coach is training or lecturing. There’s nothing wrong with training or lecturing, in certain situations. However, it’s not coaching. But if a coach is asking some powerful questions and then listening most of the time, you have a situation where the coachee is finding the solutions herself, instead of being told what to do. This frees up the coach to work on other projects and empowers the coachee to move forward on her own.
So what makes a good coaching question? Here are five tips to keep in mind: