Opening & Closing Questions with Style

<p>Coaching Opening Questions:</p><ul> <li>How are you coming into our conversation today?</li> <li>What’s going on in your world?</li> <li>How are you landing into the call?</li> <li>What’s on your mind?</li> <li>What’s your story?</li> </ul><p>Removing the “advising” from our coaching with the following things:</p><ul> <li>Open-ended questions</li> <li>Questions without judgement </li> <li>Non-leading questions</li> <li>Ask one question -- and let your client talk</li> <li>Tell me more… </li> <li>Can you give me an example of… ?</li> <li>What do you mean by… ?</li> <li>The wandering conversation</li> <li>Asking more intentional and interesting questions</li> </ul><p><a href="https://www.leadershape.org/">LeaderShape</a></p><p><br></p><p>End of a Session Coaching Questions: </p><ul> <li>Do you think that we accomplished what we set out to do?</li> <li>What are you leaving here with?</li> <li>How are you feeling as you walk out the door?</li> <li>What are you leaving this session that is most useful for you today?</li> <li>What’s one thing have you learned from today?</li> <li>What are you going to think about from today’s coaching session?</li> <li>What’s resonating with you now?</li> </ul><p><a href="https://heavy.com/entertainment/2020/03/james-lipton-questions-inside-the-actors-studio/">James Lipton: 10 Questions from Inside the Actor Studio</a></p><p><br></p><p>Book:</p><p><a href="https://boxofcrayons.com/coaching-skills-for-managers/the-coaching-habit/">The Coaching Habit</a> by Michael Bungay Stanier</p><p><br></p><p>Podcasts: </p><p><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coach-to-coach/id1483364079">Coach to Coach</a> Katie Linder</p><p><a href="https://www.npr.org/podcasts/765024913/dolly-parton-s-america">Dolly Parton’s America</a></p><p><a href="https://www.audible.com/pd/West-Cork-Podcast/B08DDFD4W7">West Cork</a></p><p>-----</p><p>Want to learn more about coaching? Have a question or topic we should discuss? Let us know!</p><p>Follow the pod on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/