Coaching Interest Group

Join us for the Coaching Interest Group meeting on Thursday, September 13, 2012.  Members of the Network are always welcome to attend the Coaching Group!

The theme of this meeting will be using questions in coaching. Coaches --  bring your most powerful questions and be prepared to talk about your questioning methodology. 

Reservations are required. 

What we are reading:

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

by Tony Stoltzfus

Powerful questions are a coach's greatest tool--so nothing can improve your coaching ability more than building great asking skills. Whether you are a life coach in training or an experienced professional, if you are doing relationship or executive coaching, Coaching Questions has the tools, techniques and question examples to help you ask questions with greater impact.

This reference guide is a toolkit packed with dozens of questioning skills, models and exercises, covering everything from conversational models, options and obstacles to advanced asking skills like reframing, tolerations and decision strategies. Each asking technique is briefly described, then illustrated with coaching question examples (over 1,000 in all). This coaching manual also offers hints and tips for where to use the different asking tools, and practice coaching exercises you can use to increase your skills. It even includes an independent study schedule that lets you practice with a peer to master these powerful coaching techniques on your own.

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 schedule of training exercises to help you become a "Master of Asking".

Location:  Mimi’s Café, 4175 Millenia Blvd., Orlando (near Millenia Mall)