AC202 Powerful Questions (1)

Facilitator: Prabha Chandrasekhar
2009/3/30, 4/6 & 4/13

How do you think the powerful questions different from normal questions?
- A trigger of different/possible direction
- Intention to create of awareness
- Stimulate deeper thinking
- Reinforce the positive feeling
- Engages and explores
- Has answers which lead to new questions, finally have the answers of all the previous questions

Powerful questions: help the others to think more, open up new possibility, to help move forward, different direction, Ah-ha moment

Why is it, powerful questions, so important to coaching?
- provide affirmation to some ideas
- find their own truth to find their goals
- help them with the goal setting and move forward

If we just allow the client to talk, what would happen?
- Coaching is process to help client grow and discover him or herself and design the mission of their life.
- If there is no questions in the coaching process. The coaching relationship is not helpful.
- Great coach vs. extraordinary coaches = questioning skills

Powerful questions could keep clients focused. (Maintain the direction of coaching)

How important is the tone for a powerful question? Which is a tone for powerful question?
- Fast speakers can slow down a little bit for coaching session; it would become a little bit soft.
- We need to be comfortable of what we are doing. It is O.K. to speak fast but with smile tone.

What is the role of listening and silence when we ask a powerful question? What is the most effective way to get the result?
- The more time for the client to think.
- Leave some time for them to think and answer.

When coaching, we ask a question and wait (be silence), even the client has say something, we could still wait to see they have other information to say. Silence is very powerful.

The more questions we ask and the more time for them to respond. Let them listening what they want to say but if we give the answers they listen to what we want to say.

What are your advantage of the powerful questions with listening and silence?
- We hold a space for client to create the awareness
- Remain silence, the other party would feel nervous that they have to say something. We need to help them step out the comfort zone to say something.