From the course: The Coaching Habit (getAbstract Summary)

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Seven essential questions

Seven essential questions

- [Instructor] Training yourself to ask people you're coaching seven essential questions is an important new behavior you should develop as a habit. These questions can transform your scheduled one-on-one sessions with employees, your business and team meetings, as well as reshaping unplanned conversations in the hallway. The first question is the kickstart question. Ask, "What's on your mind?" to initiate a focused conversation. This directs the conversation to the most important issue as defined by the other party, and puts that person in charge of the direction of the conversation. After opening with this question, use the three-P model to focus the conversation. Projects, determine what your employee is working on and discuss current assignments. People, consider the employees' working relationships. And patterns, explore your employees' habitual behaviors to reveal how you can help them approach and accomplish…

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