4. Schedule
What is a coaching dojo?
Powerful questions
Powerful questions exercise
Practice Powerful questions
5. What is a coaching dojo?
A place to learn coaching skills.
Safe environment.
Not directly related to current work activities.
Focus on the skills, not on the content.
6. What is a coaching dojo?
Subject Coach
Coaching activity
Feedback
Feedback
Observer
7. What is a coaching dojo?
Subject Coach
Coaching activity
Feedback
Feedback
Observer
8. What is a coaching dojo?
Important about feedback:
Feedback should be constructive.
Be open in receiving feedback.
Be respectful in giving feedback.
9. What is a coaching dojo?
When giving feedback, THINK:
True
Helpful
Inspiring
Necesarry
Kind
12. Powerful Questions
What questions are not powerful?
Questions with a yes / no answer.
Are you able to finish the project before the deadline?
Questions with the answer already in the question.
Will you be dissapointed when the team fails the
sprint?
Don’t you think it is important to be on time for the
meeting?
16. Powerful Questions
Are truly open
Are not asked with a “correct” answer in mind
Show true interest in the person
17. More Powerful
Why..?
How..?
What..?
Who, when, were?
Yes / No Questions
Less Powerful
18. Powerful Questions
Samples:
Is there another way?
How can you do that better?
Can you explain that to me?
What will this get you?
What is it we’re not seeing?
What is your responsibility?
23. Powerful Questions
Why would you want to use them:
Invite introspection
Reveal additional solutions
Lead to greater creativity and insight
Send people into a realm of discovery
26. Powerful Questions
Exercise 1:
Take the powerful question cards.
Order them from least powerful to most powerful
from left to right.
27. Powerful Questions
Exercise 2:
Take one of the three least powerful questions.
Rephrase the question to create a powerful question.
28. Powerful Questions
Practice exercise:
Make a group of 1 subject, 1 coach and 1 or more
observers.
The subject presents a problem, the coach coaches
the subject, the observer(s) provide feedback
afterwards.
7 minutes coaching, 7 minutes feedback.
Rotate until each person has been the subject, coach
and observer.
Thank you for investing your time in this workshop.
The subject of today’s coaching dojo is a workshop in using powerful questions as a co-active coaching technique.We will start with a short explanation of what a coaching dojo is.Secondly we will look at the theory behind powerful questions.During the last part of this short workshop we will be practicing the use of powerful questions.
During a coaching dojo people take on several roles.One participant will be the subject of the coaching technique, an other participant will be the coach that is exercising the coaching technique. And a third participant will be the observer who’s task is to provide feedback to the subject and the coach.Feedback is not provided during the coaching exercise, but the observer waits until the coaching exercise is finished and will provide the feedback as soon as it is finished.
The roles will rotate among the participants of the coaching dojo to make sure that each participant has been a subject, coach and observer.
To understand what powerful questions are, we first need to understand which questions are not powerful.Let’s move to the next slide to see some examples of non powerful questions.
When using questions that are considered as non powerful questions the responses of the person that is questioned are automatically limited.
A powerful question activates the brain of the questioned person opening up an entire world of possible answers, creativity and innovations.
This pyramid shows the different type of questions and ranges them from less powerful to powerful.
The most important thing about asking questions is listening. Often people are so focussed on asking the right questions that they forget to listen to the person to which they ask the questions.Be aware of everything that happens in the discussions, read between the lines, watch the body language, be open and honest and show a genuine interest in the person.
The powerful question cards can be downloaded from: http://deborahpreuss.com/resources/DeborahPreuss_PowerfulQuestions_exercise_kit.pdf
Debrief the powerful questions coaching exercise:What did people notice?What was the most dificult part?