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 useful tips and techniques for constructing excellent questions. While not a coaching book per se (it is targeted at small group discussion leaders), it 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 well-designed questions created for specific scenarios or situations. Any coach (and especially beginners) could benefit from having this volume handy.

New! Coaching Questions

A Coach's Guide to Powerful Asking Skills
by Tony Stoltzfus
100 pages, Large Format
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Powerful questions are a coach's greatest tool--so nothing can improve your coaching ability more than mastering the art of asking. Whether you are a coach in training or an experienced professional, Coaching Questions can help you acquire the skills to coach with greater impact.

This reference guide is packed with dozens of asking tools, models and techniques, covering everything from conversational models, options and obstacles to advanced skills like reframing, tolerations and decision strategies (click here to view the Table of Contents). Each technique is briefly described, then illustrated with question examples (over 1,000 in all), hints and application exercises to help you get up to speed quickly.

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 consultant on life- and business planning, 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 resource for coaches who are looking to improve their asking skills or find examples of life-changing questions.

Powerful Questions: Problem Solving

by Tony Stoltzfus
4 Audio Sessions (65 minutes) plus handouts in Enhanced CD format
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This great new CD shows you three powerful techniques for brainstorming and helping people develop creative solutions using the coaching approach. You'll learn how to take people to their ideal future to get around the limitations of the present, the obstacle approach to problem solving, and how to take brainstorming to the transformational level of values, beliefs and identity.

Each CD in the new Master Coach Series offers advanced coaching tools and techniques focused around one key area of coaching. The discs include a brief teaching on each technique, live coaching demos that show what it looks like in action, and handouts and worksheets you can print out to put those powerful questions right in your hands. Listening to a top coach at work is an easy, effective way to sharpen your coaching skills - and you can do it even while you're driving to work!

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The Questions of Jesus
Price: $12.95
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 ocassional 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.

Leadership Coaching

The Disciplines, Skills and Heart of a Christian Coach
by Tony Stoltzfus
320 pages
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Leadership Coaching is quite simiply the best how-to book available for anyone who wants to become a Christian coach or improve their coaching skills. Written by a top Christian coach trainer, it is filled with real-life stories, practical tools and application exercises that bring coaching techniques to life.

Part I is an in-depth look at how coaching fits with the purposes of God. Starting with key biblical concepts about how God builds leaders, this book goes beyond proof-texting to present an integrated, values-based paradigm for leadership coaching.

Part II uses a hands-on, interactive approach to show you how to coach. Utilizing the seven key elements of effective coaching as a framework, each facet of the coaching relationship is explained in detail. Then follow-up Master Class sections help you internalize the key concepts and try them out in real life. Leadership Coaching is a great introduction to a powerful way of helping others grow.

To get even more out of this great book, purchase the companion CD set, Leadership Coaching Live!

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Leadership Coaching Live! CD Set
Price: $39.99
by Tony Stoltzfus
Eight interactive sessions (4 hours) on 4 CDs
A companion to the book, Leadership Coaching

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Leadership Coaching Live gives you the chance to experience what coaching can do by watching a master coach at work. A perfect companion to the book, Leadership Coaching, this eight-session set was recorded live, and includes demos of key coaching skills, live coaching appointments, insightful debriefings and teaching sessions by a top Christian coach trainer. The book and CDs together are a perfect teaching tool to introduce others to the world of coaching, especially using the FREE course outlines (choose the second item below to get the outlines).

“I have a discipling relationship I’ve had for years. We’ve made more progress in the last few months using some of your questions than we have in five years.” -- Senior Pastor

New! Life-on-Life Leadership

A Manual for Coaching Discipling Leaders
by Cheryl Baker and Tony Stoltzfus
120 pages, tabbed, with inside pockets
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Eight Principles of Life on Life Leadership is a practical handbook for coaching discipleship group leaders. The manual takes the eight timeless principles in the classic book, The Master Plan of Evangelism by Robert Coleman, and uses nearly 100 coaching tools and exercises to help leaders apply them to small group life.

This coach's manual provides a step by step approach to coaching group leaders toward greater effectiveness. The process starts with an the leader and coach doing an assessment of group life based on Coleman's eight principles of discipleship (which cover selecting, training and reproducing leaders). The group leader chooses what to focus on and creates a growth goal in that area. Then the tools and coaching exercises in the manual are used to help move things forward. Click Here for more products from this author.

Coaching for Performance
Price: $19.95
by John Whitmore
180 pages
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Clear, concise, hands-on and friendly, Coaching for Performance is a top-rated business coaching guide written in a coaching style. Perfect for beginners or for practicing coaches, this bestselling handbook will help you master key skills of the coaching model and unlock people's potential to maximize their own performance.

The book contains an excellent introduction to the coaching approach, and follows with an in-depth look at the "GROW" conversational model, a widely used blueprint for structuring a coaching conversation. With tips, example questions and sample dialogue for each step, this definitive guide will quickly have you coaching people to clarity and action.

Adopted by many of the world's major corporations and with over 200,000 copies in print, this easy-to-use title argues persuasively for:

- Using questions instead of commands to raise awareness and responsibility
- Using the GROW model (Goals, Reality, Options, Will) to generate prompt action and peak performance
- The growing need to relate to the individual's sense of meaning and purpose

Powerful Questions: Changing Perspective

by Tony Stoltzfus
Audio Sessions (77 minutes) plus handouts and transcriptions in Enhanced CD format
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The new Master Coach Series offers advanced skills training for aspiring coaches or those who are already certified. This disc includes input on several powerful perspective techniques, which are then demonstrated in extended, live coaching sessions. 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.

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