Category Archive: Coaching

Instant Coaching: Three Questions That Ignite Action

If your day is packed, maximize brief encounters. Turn short interactions into dynamic coaching moments. Use three questions to ignite action.

Ask about the present.
Ask about the future.
Ask about action.

Unlock People Using the GROW Model

Coaching is harder when the coach is the boss. Open listening, courageous honesty, and not fixing are rare in conversations when one person has organizational authority.

Frameworks provide clarity, consistency, and confidence in coaching relationships. Use four questions that align with the GROW model.

To Communicate with Power, Use These 9 Questions

You communicate with power when you speak to universal concerns.

Say words people need to hear, not things you need to say.

Don’t fall in love with telling people what to do.

Speak to nine primal questions. Anything you say to address the nine primal concerns elevates your relevance.

Here’s how…

6 Core Coaching Skills for Leaders

Coaching is leading powerful conversations that enable others to flourish.

Skilled leaders use coaching skills to bring potential into reality.

4 Myths about Coaching You Must Reject

This post confronts common myths about the leader as coach.

Coaching provides people centered approaches to development and results.

“Coaching is the universal language of change and learning.”

Included in this post are coaching tips leaders can use today.

Learn to bring out the best in people, not the worst.

10 Practices for the Leader as Coach

Leaders who love telling people what to do can’t coach.

The use of authority creates conformity. The leader as coach ignites vitality.

Here are 10 essential qualities of the leader as coach.