| There are 3 essentials that make up great coaching, | | | | Questions may need to be non-traditional, unthought-of |
| namely: Being fully present with your client, Active | | | | or downright bizarre, but they do need to get results, |
| Listening and Powerful Questions. If you are in | | | | and by utilizing them at the correct time you will have |
| coaching because it is a calling or a vocation then I | | | | you something incredible to offer your clients. With just |
| assume that you do already possess these wonderful | | | | one powerful question you can help to unleash the |
| skills which you may use in many areas of your life, | | | | life-changing moment of truth for a client. To get |
| including coaching. However, if you want to be | | | | amazing results you need to be phenomenal and |
| EXTRAORDINARY in all you do, you will want to | | | | outrageous, you need to challenge the norm and |
| enhance these skills to a level where you outperform | | | | stretch outside the box of prescribed questions and |
| yourself. As a coach you already know that this is | | | | possibilities. |
| possible and within anyone's reach, on condition that | | | | Asking a powerful question helps the client to open up |
| they have the tools, motivation and support. | | | | his or her mind to a different way of looking at things. |
| The skill of powerful questioning is the tool that can | | | | To really help someone to change you have to be |
| help take your coaching to even greater heights. So, | | | | able to reach deep down into the core of their thinking |
| what exactly is a powerful question? Well, it is that | | | | and experiences and stir something in their inner |
| question which stops you dead in your tracks. It is the | | | | selves. At times you may need to shake them up. This |
| question that validates who you are. It is a question | | | | starts with the first question you ask your client. Once |
| that opens up possibilities that one never dreamed | | | | you have awakened some hope of possibility within an |
| about before, and lastly, it is that question that gets you | | | | individual, the path for moving forward becomes a real |
| moving forward and gets you into action. Powerful | | | | probability. A different way of approaching questions |
| questioning is quite an art-form in itself and can make | | | | and presenting information helps the client to look at |
| the difference between a great session or an | | | | their same reality through different eyes and possibly |
| extraordinary one and ultimately the difference | | | | more accurately. It's as Einstein said, "No problem can |
| between being a great coach or an extraordinary | | | | be solved from the same level of consciousness that |
| coach. Now, I am not sure about you, but once I | | | | created it." |
| started coaching I knew that there was no other | | | | As coaches we aim to serve our clients by finding the |
| choice for me than to be the very best I could be: to | | | | question that stops clients in their tracks and opens up |
| be an expert coach and great individual. | | | | possibilities that they never allowed themselves to |
| Coaching is not just a job for most of us coaches; it is | | | | dream of before -- a powerful question that gets them |
| the very essence of who we are and that calling | | | | moving forward and gets them into action. We need |
| together with our unique coaching styles is what we | | | | to use questions that keep our clients on their toes, so |
| have to offer our clients. HOW does one become an | | | | they may never become complacent bystanders in |
| extraordinary, unique, special and fantastic coach? The | | | | their lives. Questions are there to hold their attention. |
| secret is hidden in asking POWERFUL QUESTIONS. | | | | As a coach, there really cannot be anything more |
| The perfect question at the perfect time unlocks the | | | | soul-gratifying than hearing or seeing the light go on for |
| "ah-ha" moment, unlocks gremlins, unlocks new | | | | your client. This can be achieved by asking that either |
| perspectives, unlocks new awareness, unlocks new | | | | that one or many extraordinarily insightful and powerful |
| understanding and unlocks the very moment for | | | | questions. |
| change that makes moving forward possible. | | | | |