Tool 11: Coaching Self and Others

Purpose: Coaches know that asking powerful questions of their clients is key to their success. This coaching tool spotlights special features of the QT methodology for coaching. Here we focus on the benefits of teaching the methodology to clients while using that same methodology to guide them through resolving the issues and goals they’ve presented.

Discussion: Simultaneously teaching the QT methodology to clients while guiding them through the issues and goals they’ve presented is an integral part of Question Thinking for coaching. As the client becomes increasingly skillful with these tools, and begins to experience their benefits first hand, the relationship between client and coach becomes increasingly egalitarian ...

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