Empower Others (2008.05): To cultivate a coaching culture, use a set of questions

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What's a good way to cultivate a coaching culture? Having staff members ask each other a prescribed set of questions. Doing this results in staff members coaching and receiving coaching—without being trained in coaching.

Here's a sample set of questions for a 15-minute coaching session:
  1. What’s going on in your work?
  2. What people/projects are you spending your time/energy on?
  3. What are your goals for this next week/month?
  4. Whom do you talk to about your work? What do you talk about?
  5. What progress on your goals have you experienced? What’s been satisfying?
  6. What roadblocks have you experienced? What’s been frustrating?
  7. What are the reasons for your feelings of satisfaction and frustration?
  8. What can you do to build on your progress/minimize your roadblocks? Who can help you?
  9. You talked about ___ today. What do you think you’ll do?
  10. How can I pray for you?