6.5 Questions: Power Yourself Toward Knowing

Always a Sucker for Good Questions

As a coach, questions are my business. Questions are the best way to both learn and to teach.  A group of questions is even better.

I originally ran across these while looking at Stephanie WestAllen’s idealawg; Idealawg has always been near the top of my list for information on mindfulness, mediation AND meditation, and other lawyerly things (of which I have little interest).  Idealawg and Stephanie’s other blog, Brains on Purpose, which she co-writes with Jeffrey Schwartz, MD, are well worth checking out.

Presented as mentoring questions there is also value in them as coaching questions.  The more I thought about it, the more they bagan looking like great self-coaching questions.  And always a coach, I had to tinker with them a bit as well.  Here’s what I came up with.  Source article is below.

1. What is it that I really want to be and do?

2. If I were that and did that, what difference would it make in my life?

   • What differences would I notice first?

3. What am I doing really well that is helping me get there?  Doing that is getting in my way?

4. What am I not doing well that is preventing I from getting there?

5. What will I do differently tomorrow to meet those challenges?

6. Where do I need the most help? What ways can I help myself?

via Five Questions Every Mentor Must Ask – Anthony Tjan – HarvardBusiness.org.

What questions move you forward?

Mike
Brain-Based Coach

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