Essential Questions to Grow Your Team A Toolkit of Coaching Conversations for Managers & Leaders
Using new coaching skills at work can be pretty daunting. Thinking up questions "in the moment" can put you under extra pressure, and when you're already stretching into a new way of talking to your team that can feel stressful. You want to use your new coaching conversation skills, but you don't have time to create questions to support you. What if you had a collection of ideas for questions to ask in some of the most common conversations at work? Conversations like these: 1. Creating performance objectives 2. Coaching under performance 3. Creating career goals 4. Debriefing a project 5. Identifying motivators 6. Creating better work-life balance 7. Coaching over or under-utilization 8. Encouraging involvement 9. Exploring talents 10. Coaching for retirement 11. Coaching a workplace returner 12. Presentation skills coaching 13. Coaching a sensitive personal issue 14. Coaching to embed learning 15. Coaching to explore sales outcomes 16. Growing HR Business Partner skills 17. Growing a Coaching Culture 18. Backwards Coaching 19. Event Planning 20. Solution focused coaching questions This book contains over 500 coaching style questions to help you grow your confidence in conversations that drive accountability and results. Use it as a guide to design your own conversations, or use it to help your team reflect on what they might like to talk to you about, or you can even use it as a companion for delivering training programs that teach coaching. Here's what readers have said: "A vital guide to coaching conversations at work to deliver great business results" Graham Alexander, founder of the Alexander Corporation, originator of the GROW model and author of SuperCoaching and Tales from the Top. "A brisk, no nonsense style eBook which will be truly helpful to people who want to coach their team," Alison Hardingham - International Best Selling author of eight books, and Director of Business Psychology at Yellow Dog Consulting UK. 'Easily the best collection of coaching questions I've ever come across. As a professional coach whose clientele consists primarily of managers and executives, I know that I will be using many of the pages of this wonderful little book many, many times.' Pierre Gauthier Certified Integral Coach (TM), Canada Inside this book, you will find a toolkit for building your coaching confidence, along with ideas of how to use a coaching approach to support your team into a more positive and engaging culture.