Who should attend?
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If you are a new or experienced coach and you want to improve your questioning and listening skills, you don't want to miss this webinar.
Why should you attend?
Questioning and listening skills are a cornerstone of coaching excellence. Questions are educators, catalysts, weapons, tools and much, much more. From a coaching perspective we think of questions as, “the seeking of information for clarity, insight and learning”.
Coaches need to learn how to ask insightful questions that will elicit revealing responses and then listen to the coachee. The goal is to guide the coachee through the self-discovery process. While some coaches can prepare their next question on the fly, it can be helpful to have a battery of questions covering different categories prepared and ready to pull from your toolkit.
It is not enough to ask insightful and clarifying questions. A coach must also have excellent listening skills. This one can be challenging for many of us. This takes focus, genuine interest in our coachee, discernment to ‘hear’ what they are really saying. A common tool for listening is to immediately restate what your coachee has said to ensure that you ‘heard’ them correctly.