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Coaching QuestionsA Coach's Guide to Powerful Asking Skillsby Tony StoltzfusNEW LOWER PRICE Rating:  
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A Book You'll Really UseCoaching Questions is designed as a reference guide for practicing coaches and coaches in training. The book is arranged around particular asking techniques used at different points in the coaching conversation. Each technique is described, illustrated with example questions, and often includes a additional hints and tips or practice exercises to help you make the most of that skill. All this is condensed into one or two pages for each tool for quick reference. This book is a godsend for beginners or coaches in training, who often struggle to come up with the right thing to ask. Simply take a minute or two to review the technique or conversational model you will be using, close the book and start coaching. You'll coach with greater confidence and effectiveness, and master the art of asking faster. Practicing coaches will find a wealth of new tools and new twists on old ways of asking. It is amazing what you can learn by looking at the way others ask. And if you find yourself coaching an unfamiliar area, Coaching Questions includes sample tools for a dozen different coaching niches.
On the Back Cover of Coaching QuestionsThe single most important skill in coaching is asking powerful questions. An incisive question posed at just the right moment can be a life-changing experience. In this volume, master coach trainer Tony Stoltzfus joins with 12 other professional coaches to present dozens of valuable asking tools, models and exercises, and illustrates them with over 1,000 examples of penetrating coaching questions. Covering the gamut from basic techniques like options and actions to advanced concepts such as challenge and reframing, Coaching Questions is a book that will find a home on any coach's short list of handy references. Instead of just offering lists of questions, this book connects the question examples with the coaching tool they are used with and their place in the coaching conversation, and teaches you to use the tools as well. The focus on tools plus examples makes it a reference guide you'll return to again and again. Coaching Questions: A Coach's Guide to Powerful Asking Skills includes:
What People Are Saying About Coaching Questions"The Questions Book is awesome! I am running through it now and then, it gets me thinking and aligns my thoughts... [in the way] I need to be in with a client. Tony, you are truly gifted!Texas
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"I’m not a professional coach... As such, I wasn’t sure how the book would impact me, but I figured that it’s always good to have a few new questions in one’s arsenal, so I thought I would give it a try... It amazed me how immediately useful the information was. This book is fantastic in it’s ability to get you to think about the questions that you ask when you meet with people.
I’m talking about thinking over the types of questions you ask and how you ask them, and then, thinking about how to catch yourself in mid-sentence when asking a closed question to turn it around to be open.
I have also used, and continue to use, more creative questions when I’m discipling, which in turn leads me to better know the people I serve. I wouldn’t say this about most books, but “Coaching Questions” would be a great book to get whether you are a coach, pastor, or just a plain ol’ guy like me!
About the AuthorAs a pioneer in the Christian coaching field, Tony Stoltzfus has trained hundreds of coaches, helped found an international coaching school and developed a wide range of training resources used around the world. He is the author of Leadership Coaching, a book widely used in coach training schools; is leader of a relational network of coaches; and serves with a non-profit that brings coaching to missions leaders in Asia and Africa.Click here for more resources from Tony Stoltzfus. |