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

Are you looking to hone your asking skills with the help of a master coach? Coaching Questions is the best-selling asking resource for coaches in training as well as seasoned professionals. This comprehensive toolkit is a treasure trove of great asking tools, models and exercises covering everything from conversational models to options and obstacles as well as advanced asking skills like reframing, tolerations and decision strategies. Each questioning method is described and illustrated with examples (over 1,000 in all), asking tips and practice exercises. Coaching Questions is a reference guide you'll turn to again and again.
A Book You'll Really Use
Coaching Questions is designed as a reference guide for practicing coaches and coaches in training. The book is arranged around particular asking techniques used at different points in the coaching conversation. Each technique is described, illustrated with example questions, and often includes an additional hints and tips or practice exercises to help you make the most of that skill. All this is condensed into one or two pages for each tool for quick reference.
This book is a godsend for beginners or coaches in training, who often struggle to come up with the right thing to ask. Simply take a minute or two to review the technique or conversational model you will be using, close the book and start coaching. You'll coach with greater confidence, effectiveness, and master the art of asking faster.
Practicing coaches will find a wealth of new tools and new twists on old ways of asking. It is amazing what you can learn by looking at the way others ask. And if you find yourself coaching an unfamiliar area, Coaching Questions includes sample tools for a dozen different coaching niches.
The single most important skill in coaching is asking powerful questions. An incisive question posed at just the right moment can be a life-changing experience.
In this volume, master coach trainer Tony Stoltzfus joins with 12 other professional coaches to present dozens of valuable asking tools, models and exercises, and illustrates them with over 1,000 examples of penetrating coaching 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. Get an electronic book copy here.
Instead of just offering lists of questions, this book connects the question examples with the coaching tool they are used with and their place in the coaching conversation and teaches you to use the tools as well. The focus on tools plus examples makes it a reference guide you'll return to again and again.
Coaching Questions: A Coach's Guide to Powerful Asking Skills includes:
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 that includes passion, design, experience and calling
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"