The single most important skill in coaching is asking powerful questions. In this volume, master coach trainer Tony Stoltzfus joins with 12 other professional coaches to present dozens of valuable asking tools, models and exercises, then illustrates these coaching strategies with over 1,000 examples of penetrating questions. Covering the gamut from basic techniques like options and actions to advanced concepts such as challenge and reframing, Coaching Questions is a book that will find a home on any coach's short list of handy references. Coaching Questions: A Coach's Guide to Powerful Asking Skills includes: 1. Dozens of asking tools, models, and strategies. 2. The top ten asking mistakes coaches make, and how to correct each one. 3. Nearly 1200 examples of powerful questions from real coaching situations. 4. Destiny discovery tools organized in a four-part life-purpose model . 5. Overviews of 15 popular coaching niches, with a tool and examples for each. 6. A schedule of training exercises to help you become a "Master of Asking".
Tony is a certified professional coach and coach trainer, co-founder of a coach training school, and has been in coaching for over a decade. He runs a large, on-line coaching bookstore at Coach22.com with his complete body of work, including seven coaching books, training CDs and DVDs, and a suite of open source training courses. Tony is the founder of the Christian Coaching Center, a consortium of 20 coaches who provide free information on coaching through hundreds of articles and posts. He also runs TheCallingJourney.com, a free calling timeline generator based on his leadership research, and the Leadership MetaFormation Institute, a school that trains leaders in change strategies that work from the inside out.
Tony helped found an organization that has provided roughly 10,000 hours of coaching to leaders in emerging nations. His Open Source coach training materials make advanced coaching skills training accessible to ministries, non-profits and overseas endeavors.
In his coaching practice, Tony helps leaders encounter God in difficult circumstances, transitions or wilderness times, because anything that happens to you can be leveraged for good if you meet God in the midst of it.
As a trainer, Tony focuses on teaching practical tools and techniques that produce transformation (deep, lasting, significant change), using a highly-interactive, adult learning approach.
