As an author, speaker and coach, I regularly create articles, videos and resources for leaders and their teams.
You are invited to check out the Teams365 blog, which started in early 2014. Now more than 2000 posts later, there are a range of tools , tips and ideas for leaders and their teams to leverage.
Join me on Mondays at 11 am ET for one of the Book Club calls I host around Effective Virtual Conversations, Coaching Business Builder or PlanDoTrack. Past calls are recorded and can be found at our YouTube channel.
Recent articles and chapters published on the topic of group and team coaching include:
2 chapters in the Practitioner's Handbook of Team Coaching - Clutterbuck et al
Choice Magazine - Volume 16 Volume 4 - Read it here.
Choice - Volume 16 number 1 - choice_v16n1_issue_taking_care_of_business.pdf
You are invited to check out the Teams365 blog, which started in early 2014. Now more than 2000 posts later, there are a range of tools , tips and ideas for leaders and their teams to leverage.
Join me on Mondays at 11 am ET for one of the Book Club calls I host around Effective Virtual Conversations, Coaching Business Builder or PlanDoTrack. Past calls are recorded and can be found at our YouTube channel.
Recent articles and chapters published on the topic of group and team coaching include:
2 chapters in the Practitioner's Handbook of Team Coaching - Clutterbuck et al
Choice Magazine - Volume 16 Volume 4 - Read it here.
Choice - Volume 16 number 1 - choice_v16n1_issue_taking_care_of_business.pdf
20 Plus Questions for Every Leader
By Jennifer Britton, MES, CPT
Author of Effective Group Coaching (Wiley, 2010) and From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching (Jossey-Bass, 2013)
By Jennifer Britton, MES, CPT
Author of Effective Group Coaching (Wiley, 2010) and From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching (Jossey-Bass, 2013)
"Questions form the backbone of any coaching conversation" - Britton, 2013
The art of asking powerful questions is a critical skill for leaders today. In addition to listening, how effective are your questions in eliciting information, insights, perspectives and learning?
Here are more than 20 questions you may consider incorporating into your upcoming coaching or mentoring conversations as leaders:
The art of asking powerful questions is a critical skill for leaders today. In addition to listening, how effective are your questions in eliciting information, insights, perspectives and learning?
Here are more than 20 questions you may consider incorporating into your upcoming coaching or mentoring conversations as leaders:
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What are key priorities for your work right now?
What's working well on the team? What are you most proud of accomplishing this year? What's our greatest opportunity from your perspective right now? What would give us a quick win? What would give you a quick win? How does your work interconnect/synergize with others? What's an overlooked resource right now? What's an overused resource right now? |
What are the greatest strengths you bring to the team?
How are your strengths being leveraged? Overused? Not used enough? What single action, if underatken right now, would have the greatest impact on the team? What do you need to do your best work? What do you need from me? What's going to be your most important focus next year? Where do we need to focus? Where do we need to celebrate? What's working well? Where do we need to make some changes? |
Adapted from pages 299-302 of From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching (Jossey-Bass, 2013), Copyright Jennifer Britton, 2013, All Rights Reserved.