Opening & Closing Questions with Style

Coaching Opening Questions: How are you coming into our conversation today? What’s going on in your world? How are you landing into the call? What’s on your mind? What’s your story? Removing the “advising” from our coaching with the following things: Open-ended questions Questions without judgement Non-leading questions Ask one question -- and let your client talk Tell me more… Can you give me an example of… ? What do you mean by… ? The wandering conversation Asking more intentional and interesting questions LeaderShape End of a Session Coaching Questions: Do you think that we accomplished what we set out to do? What are you leaving here with? How are you feeling as you walk out the door? What are you leaving this session that is most useful for you today? What’s one thing have you learned from today? What are you going to think about from today’s coaching session? What’s resonating with you now? James Lipton: 10 Questions from Inside the Actor Studio Book: The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier Podcasts: Coach to Coach Katie Linder Dolly Parton’s America West Cork ----- Want to learn more about coaching? Have a question or topic we should discuss? Let us know! Follow the pod on Twitter: @CoachingThruIt & Instagram: @CoachingThruIt Email us at: [email protected] Connect to the hosts: @laurapasquini & @julieclarsen Music credit: The song reCreation by airtone has been remixed under a CC-BY license.