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Coaching Questions: A Coach's Guide to Powerful Asking Skills

Coaching Questions: A Coach's Guide to Powerful Asking SkillsAuthor: Tony Stoltzfus
Publisher: Pegasus Creative Arts
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 reviews

Media: Paperback
Pages: 100
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 8.1 x 0.5

ISBN: 0979416361
Dewey Decimal Number: 370
EAN: 9780979416361


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Product Description
The single most important skill in coaching is asking powerful questions. In this volume, master coach trainer Tony Stoltzfus joins with 12 other professional coaches to present dozens of valuable asking tools, models and exercises, then illustrates these coaching strategies with over 1,000 examples of penetrating questions. Covering the gamut from basic techniques like options and actions to advanced concepts such as challenge and reframing, Coaching Questions is a book that will find a home on any coach's short list of handy references.

Coaching Questions: A Coach's Guide to Powerful Asking Skills includes:

1. Dozens of asking tools, models, and strategies
2. The top ten asking mistakes coaches make, and how to correct each one
3. Nearly 1200 examples of powerful questions from real coaching situations
4. Destiny discovery tools organized in a four-part life-purpose model
5. Overviews of 15 popular coaching niches, with a tool and examples for each
6. A self-study schedule of training exercises to help you become a "Master of Asking"

The book includes comprehensive sections on the following topics:

  • Starting a practice and the client relationship
  • The foundational listening and asking skills (including conversational models)
  • Life Coaching and destiny discovery tools
  • Advanced coaching tools
  • Short overviews of popular coaching niches with a tool for each

An in-depth table of contents and a topical index help you find what you are looking for quickly. You'll find Coaching questions to be an in-dispensable aid to coaches in training, beginning coaches and seasoned professionals alike.


Customer Reviews:
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5 out of 5 stars Great resource!   May 18, 2008
L. Johnson (Greenville, SC)
24 out of 24 found this review helpful

Coaching Questions is a great resource for coaches or any individual who would like to improve their communication skills. Not only is the information practical but it is easy to find just the right question because of the way the book is laid out.

The book is laid out into six sections. The sections give question examples, coaching models and exercises. At the start of each section of questions Tony has added a sidebar that gives you the application for those questions. There are also sidebars with hints and tips throughout the book that are helpful. But the questions themselves are questions that I will use again and again.

Tony is perhaps one of the most practical authors that I have found. There's no fluff here, just good practical information. I highly recommend this resource!



5 out of 5 stars A Must Have Resource!   September 17, 2008
Kimberly Horvath (Voorhees, NJ)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful

If you are a coach, you must get this book! Tony continues to show us why he's a top coach. This is a book that you will reach for again and again as you develop your asking skills as a coach. The book is laid out in a manner that makes getting to the right questions quick and easy. I love the fact that it is not a "read from cover to cover" type of book...it is truly a guide for those of us that find ourselves sometimes reaching for the right questions. Even the margins of the book are set up to help you! The margins have quotes, client/coaching excercises, hints/tips and even tells you what page to go in the book for more!

If you are a coach, don't think about it...just buy it!



5 out of 5 stars Coaching Questions   August 3, 2008
B. Mahalik (LV, NV)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful

This book is one of those rare finds that truly over-delivers, even to (maybe especially to) long-time, experienced coaches. I confess that I have often straddled the line between coaching and consulting, but this book has put me back in the domain I love: coaching. Not only is it filled with succinct, real-life coaching situations I could relate to, the author offers several simple but powerful models for shaping coaching conversations and good reminders for how to be sure you're on track from the client's perspective. I keep it on my desk and make sure I review a few pages everyday just to keep my questioning skills sharp.


5 out of 5 stars A Coaching Treasure   October 14, 2008
Antonia L. Mattison (Trinidad & Tobago)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

What a resourceful, coaching guide! This was the best value for money. It far exceeded my expectations. The layout of the book was very simple yet extremely effective. Helps you get clear on process, models, and opens you up to hundreds of empowering questions with which to support your coaching clients. A must have for any coach, a treasure for your coaching resources. Fantastic job Tony Stoltzfus.


5 out of 5 stars Unique and usable   June 9, 2008
John Purcell (Atlanta, GA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

This book is so much more than a list of coaching questions that it is truly a professional coach's handbook. The questions are organized by coaching opportunities, issues, and barriers so they end up being extremely helpful. But also included are such coaching aides as a client profile form, session prep form, coaching models, etc. Finally, there is a special helpful section for special coaching niches. I'm keeping the book handy whenever I plan or execute a coaching appointment.

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