Claire writes: “Curiosity is a fundamental part of a coaching style. And yet there is a fine line between me encouraging you to get curious about your situation and me finding out what I would like to know.
When we listen to people having conversations, I notice that ‘why‘ is often about the coach’s personal understanding of their situation. ‘What‘ is more often about the person’s. And when we are not sure, a good question can be: “Would it be useful to you to think why…?
In Making Questions Work, Dorothy Strachan talks about three stages in a conversation:
- What?
- So what?
- Now what?
which can be even more useful than why!”
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