Master Coaching Questions in Just 3 Weeks | Hands-On Course

Start with the end in mind by using goal and clarification questions to initiate coaching, clarify assignments, and set clear objectives.

Clarifying the assignment uses the RA acronym (reason, intention, assignment, agreement) to establish clear expectations, boundaries, and a cooperative coaching alliance.

Guide the coachee to a positively formulated, within-session goal they can imagine achieving, refined to 'I want X in order to achieve Y,' with a reality check.

Explore the coach’s problem through targeted questions, uncover deeper issues, and build a trusting coaching relationship. Apply the four dimensions—time, situation, relationship, and meaning—to clarify assignments and move toward solutions.

Explore how systemic and circular coaching questions reveal inner dynamics, shift perspectives, recognize patterns, and expand a coach's and coachee's options for action.

Learn circular questions to explore the coachee and others in a non-linear way. Shift time perspective, external perspective, relationship perspective, and opposing perspective to reveal connections and guide change.

Explore mind reading questions to anticipate others' thoughts, reveal underlying needs, and slow conflicts, using them alongside circular questions to uncover perspectives and improve communication.

Learn to convert situational prompts into behavioral coaching questions and reframe fixed traits as observable actions, focusing on how behaviors in context drive problems and enable change.

Dissociative questions soften a coachee's problem focus and create distance to view the issue objectively, as if from an outsider, revealing alternative solutions.

Explore how behavioral patterns differ by context, and how transferring patterns to new leadership roles can create stress. Use pattern-focused questions to surface and reframe recurring behaviors.

Learn how difference or comparison questions reveal patterns, triggers, and variations across time and people, helping coaches differentiate problems from solutions and spot recurring issues.

Repeat and refine coaching question types with the Beat the Clock timed exercise, reinforcing recall through a one-minute writing sprint and targeted review for your first exercise.

Explore the CRO and GROW coaching models, defining session goals, mapping reality, generating options, and planning a way forward, with flexible, non-linear steps tailored to each coachee.

Ask 'what else' to deepen the coachee's exploration, slow the process, and uncover the core problem beyond the first solution.

Explore how scaling questions help coachees chart their current feelings, track progress, and assess feasibility by rating states from 1 to 10, guiding small, credible steps toward improvement.

Learn how consensus and dissent questions reveal differences in perspectives among system members. Identify who supports or opposes a view, uncovering power dynamics and alliances.

Subsystem questions differentiate a system by examining differences and similarities among groups within it, revealing alliances and roles of subgroups in teams, management, and family dynamics.

Apply a questioning method that probes previous solution attempts, the environment's response, and lessons learned to collaboratively develop better alternatives.

Shift your coaching focus from problems to solutions with solution-focused questions, guiding the coachee to explore new possibilities, test scaling questions in a safe setting, and discover their best path.

Discover three key min max interventions to amplify questioning techniques with minimal change, using but or instead, not yet, and in the past or up until now.