Wonderful resource for new coaches, especially!

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	• Coaching Questions: A Coach's Guide to Powerful Asking Skills Tony Stoltzfus Pegasus Creative Arts, 2008 - 100 pages average customer review:based on 32 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Excellent book!

I love this book. I think it's a "must" for everybody who is interested in coaching and interviews. It's very easy to read, the chapters are short and clear. They are written in a way that helps to understand the principles of coaching, as well as "how to do" an adecuate interview. Higly recommended.

Wonderful resource for new coaches, especially!

Coaching Questions: A Coach's Guide to Powerful Asking Questions, gets right to the heart of one of the most important skills that coaches possess; our ability to ask powerful questions. The questions we ask (as coaches) illicit answers from our clients that help them to become aware of their own thoughts and feelings that can help them create strategies and solutions going forward. Good questions are one of the keys to successful coaching.

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Very useful coaching book

Good questions are the very heart of good consulting and coaching. I found this book to be an extremely handy reference when I want to think up new ways of asking powerful questions. It's not complex or heavy with theory, but straightforward and very easy to use.

Excellent Resource For Coaches

This is one of the best books I've come across in terms of offering straight-forward, easy-to-understand questioning techniques for coaches. Whether brand new to coaching, or an experienced "veteran", this book is a great resource!

Great practical guide

Stoltzfus' focus is completely process oriented. Beginning with a focus on how to engender progress through the use of powerful questions, he proceeds to build on this in a methodical way. His approach is pragmatic, and avoids any direct consideration of the larger issues that might be important in a ministry context. This is both a strength and a weakness, in my view.

On the positive side, the text is single-minded in presenting the tools and materials for coaching, particularly for those desiring to pursue it as a professional career. The coaching process is presented in a very organized way, and there are practical tools and applications on every page. There is no reason for the reader to be unclear about how to apply any technique because checklists, example questions and hypothetical conversations abound. Step by step instructions are given for each phase of the coaching relationship, so that the reader can expect to jump right in to applying the methods with the book as a handy resource.

On the negative side, Stoltzfus glosses over some critical issues when it comes to any discussion of spirituality, values, etc. (admittedly my own preconceptions are of the validity of the Christian worldview). Where these elements do appear, he assumes their presence and or validity in his methods. The first time this issue appears is in his Life Wheel assessment (p.33). One is left to wonder what course of action one should follow if a coachee says that God does not exist, and thus is not a consideration in identifying the important topics that coaching might address.

Similarly, as values are discussed throughout the book they are assumed to both exist and be susceptible to affirmation. But anyone familiar with the world will recognize that Stoltzfus' values list (p.57) does not reflect what the world values. The most common values of wealth, power, and pleasure are underrepresented (career advancement and financial independence come closest on his list). One is left to wonder how the coaching would proceed with a coachee who requested assistance to take action in divorcing his wife for a wealthy younger woman (a hyperbolic example to illustrate the point).

While one could put this book to good use, and prove a point about tools being value neutral, that does not relieve this author from the responsibility to deal with these issues.

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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.

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