TRAINING IN THE POWER OF QUESTIONS

You coach best by asking questions. That’s the point we strive to make on Day 2 of Coaching Mastery. And that’s because coaching is a discipline that’s all about asking questions. Questions ground a subject by going out and down; these are Meta-Model questions of precision and specificity. Questions go deep into the person’s mind or matrix by moving into their meaning-making domain; these are meta-questions. Yet while most people are poor to mediocre in asking questions, the science and art of asking questions can be developed — with a systematic model, with deliberate practice, with sensory-based feedback, and a commitment, a coach can become incredibly powerful by asking questions.

Here are two new exercises that we have just started doing in Coaching Mastery (ACMC) that is drilling in the power of asking powerful questions. The first one I hinted at two weeks ago in how to “work over” and refine the well-formed outcome questions. Feel free to use these exercises at your next MCF chapter meeting.