Tony Stoltzfus, Coaching Questions: A Coaches Guide to Powerful Asking Skills. Pegasus Creative Arts, 2008.
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LifeandLeadership.com Summary
Creating questioning cultures is a crucial leadership skill. This volume is written with the broad range of professional coaching in mind, which is helpful given the fact the church leaders help others in a variety of life contexts. It covers why and how questioning is important, then makes specific suggestions on how to use questions for coaching in life, small business, career, writing, relationships, wellness, and other areas. Of special value are the lists of questions under each coaching category.
From the Publisher
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:
- Dozens of asking tools, models, and strategies.
- The top ten asking mistakes coaches make, and how to correct each one.
- Nearly 1200 examples of powerful questions from real coaching situations.
- Destiny discovery tools organized in a four-part life-purpose model.
- Overviews of 15 popular coaching niches, with a tool and examples for each.
- A schedule of training exercises to help you become a “Master of Asking”.
About the Author
Tony Stoltzfus is co-founder of a coach training school, author of five coaching books and numerous training programs (including a new Open Source coach training initiative), and has presented nearly 100 coach training workshops around the country. He focuses on transformational coaching with an international clientele of pastors, non-profit leaders and businesspeople. Tony serves on the board of a non-profit that brings coaching to leaders in emerging nations, and leads a relationally-based coaching network that seeks to build coaches into authentic communities and rally them to join in acts of generosity and service.
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