The Master Coach Series
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by Tony Stoltzfus
Audio Sessions (60+ min on each CD) plus handouts and transcriptions in Enhanced CD format
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Listening to a great coach at work in the Master Coach Series is an easy way to sharpen your coaching skills even during your drive time.

How to Ask Great Questions
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by Karen Lee Thorp
71 pages
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This short, practical volume offers a wealth of great tips and techniques for constructing excellent coaching questions. While not a coaching book per se (it is targeted at small group coaches or leaders), How to Ask Great Questions covers quite a few of the bread and butter asking techniques coaches use: open and closed questions, probing questions, asking about what's significant, and bringing out people's inner thoughts and true feelings.

The best feature of the book is that it includes example after example of great questions created for specific scenarios or situations. Any coach (and especially beginners, coaches in training or small group coaches) could benefit from having How to Ask Great Questions handy.

The Questions of Jesus
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by John Dear
306 pages
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"The most frequently asked question in all four Gospels," writes author John Dear, "is perhaps the most beautiful: 'What do you want me to do for you?' With this question, we discover not so much a God who demands to be waited on, but a God who is eager to serve." If you want to learn more about questions from Jesus himself, this book will help take you on that quest. It arranges 125 questions of Jesus in 19 categories, and then provides a meditation on the meaning of each. For a coach, just having the list of questions is worth the price of the book. It also serves up occasional nuggets like Richard Rohr's observation in the introduction that "Jesus only directly answers three of the 183 questions that he himself is asked." Fascinating.

John Dear is a priest, retreat leader, author, and peace activist, who draws from experiences such as serving as Red Cross coordinator for chaplains for families after the 9/11 attack. The meditations on each question focus on topics like justice, love, forgiveness and non-violence. If you come from a conservative or evangelical stream, this book can also be a good challenge to look into parts of Jesus message that are probably heard less often in your world.

Coaching Questions: A Coach's Guide to Powerful Asking Skills

by Tony Stoltzfus
100 pages, Large Format
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Want to perfect your asking skills with the help of a master coach? Coaching Questions is the best-selling asking resource for both coaches in training and seasoned professionals. This comprehensive toolkit is packed with dozens of asking tools, models and exercises, covering everything from conversational models, options and obstacles to advanced asking skills like reframing, tolerations and decision strategies (click here to view the Table of Contents). Each questioning technique is described, then illustrated with coaching question examples (over 1,000 in all), asking tips and practice exercises. It even includes self-study schedules for becoming a "master of asking". This reference guide is one you'll turn to again and again.

Asking Profound Questions (formerly "Asking to Win")

by Bob Biehl
31 pages
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A great question can transform your life. In this compact, high-impact booklet, Bobb Biehl, a well-known speaker and life- and business planning consultant, has captured over 100 jewels from his own experience of asking profound questions. The booklet also contains samples of several planning tools and rules of thumb for asking, planning and deciding.

Bob Biehl's questions run the gamut from career change to brainstorming to organizing to problem solving. It's a great pocket resource for Christian coaches seeking to improve their asking skills or find examples of life-changing questions.

Powerful Questions: Changing Perspective

by Tony Stoltzfus
Audio Sessions (77 minutes) plus handouts and transcriptions in Enhanced CD format
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Powerful Questions: Changing Perspective offers advanced skills training for aspiring Christian coaches or those who are already certified. This disc includes input and live demos of several powerful perspective techniques. Sharpen your coaching skills by listening to a masterful coach at work!

One of the key things people want from a coach is perspective: on their challenges, dreams, rationales and decisions. This CD uses live coaching demos to help you become a master at helping others get perspective. You'll learn three powerful asking approaches that help people see things from new angles:

- The Proportion Technique helps a person see things in relation to the big picture of other values and priorities.
- The Objectivity Approach helps takes us beyond our own viewpoint to see things as they really are.
- The Viewpoint Technique lets you look at a situation from 11 different angles.

This CD is also part of the Master Coach Series CD set.