Effective coaching relies on asking questions, not giving answers. Spend five minutes crafting questions that guide someone to solve their own problems and make their own decisions, rather than telling them what to do.
Step 2, you need to ask powerful questions and more so just write, ask questions, don't make statements. And that's a, that's literally a code of mine that I share with my clients on a regular basis. So you need to really take some time again, like 5 minutes and intentionally sit down and consider the questions you want to ask based on your curiosity. Of what it is you want to either gather or share and have a dialogue with when it comes to coaching a team member. Because asking questions, that this is the engine of coaching, is asking the questions. Remember, we're not telling anymore. We're not problem solving. We're not fixing. We're asking questions and leading them to answer their own questions. Solve their own problems, make their own decisions, put together their own plan that you might have to guide them toward. Um,
From Stuck to Leading, Episode 2 — Meet the 5 Inner Fears Destroying Your Leadership
