Coaching Tip – Ask question to help coachee ‘understand’
Great coaching requires the use of great questions. Here are some questions you may consider asking your coachee during Step 2 ‘UNDERSTAND’ of the GUIDE coaching…
6 Powerful Benefits of Leading with Questions
The coach approach to leadership is based on the premise that asking questions of others is significantly more effective than telling others what you think, or…
How comfortable are you with silence?
What is your silence threshold? A few seconds, a minute, a few minutes? Personally speaking, becoming comfortable with silence has been a journey, one on which…
Poker Face
‘Playing your cards close to your chest’ is a metaphor used to describe a situation in which someone is being cautious about what they reveal to…
The 80/20 rule for the Coach Approach to Leadership
The 80/20 Rule (Pareto Principle) is based on the premise of the imbalance of effects. The intention when using the 80/20 Rule is to maximize the…
Coaching Tip – Ask people what they will do and by when to help them ‘design’ their plan of action.
The fourth step of the GUIDE coaching model is ‘Design’. Your job as a coach in this step of the model is to support your coachee…
Coaching Tip – Fostering ‘insight’ and the Aha moment
The third step of the GUIDE coaching model is ‘INSIGHT”. The role of the coach is to ask questions which foster insight for the coachee to achieve…
Coaching Tip – Getting clear on the ‘goal’
The first step of the GUIDE model is ‘Goal’. Here are a few thoughts on this step: You can ask the coachee a variety of questions…
Coaching Tip – Six signs that a coach’s agenda is in play.
Whose agenda is it anyway? The role of a coach is to support the coachee to achieve their goals by fostering solution-based thinking through listening and questions. …
Coaching Tip – Einstein’s focus on ‘understanding’.
This week’s coaching tip pertains to the second stage of the Expedition Coaching GUIDE Model – UNDERSTANDING. Einstein has been quoted saying “If I had 60…
