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

Stoltzfus, Tony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0979416361 ISBN 13: 9780979416361

Publisher: Coach22 Bookstore LLC, 2008

Synopsis

The single most important skill in coaching is asking powerful questions. In this volume, master coach trainer Tony Stoltzfus joins with 12 other professional coaches to present dozens of valuable asking tools, models and exercises, then illustrates these coaching strategies with over 1,000 examples of penetrating 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. Coaching Questions: A Coach's Guide to Powerful Asking Skills includes:1. Dozens of asking tools, models, and strategies.2. The top ten asking mistakes coaches make, and how to correct each one.3. Nearly 1200 examples of powerful questions from real coaching situations.4. Destiny discovery tools organized in a four-part life-purpose model .5. Overviews of 15 popular coaching niches, with a tool and examples for each.6. A schedule of training exercises to help you become a "Master of Asking".

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From the Back Cover

The 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 a list of questions, this book connects the examples with the coaching tool they are used with and their place in the coaching conversation, making it a reference guide you'll return to again and again. Coaching Questions: A Coach's Guide to Powerful Asking Skills includes:

1. The top ten asking mistakes coaches make, and how to correct each one
2. Nearly 1200 examples of powerful questions from real coaching situations
3. Destiny discovery tools organized in a four-part life-purpose model that includes passion, design, experience and calling
4. Overviews of 15 popular coaching niches, with a tool and examples for each
6. A schedule of training exercises to help you become a "Master of Asking"

About the Author
As 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Coach22 Bookstore LLC
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0979416361
• ISBN 13: 9780979416361
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100