Coaching questioning is used by the coach to support his client or the coached team in finding the resources he will need to resolve his problem.
Questioning is the basis of coaching
Indeed, the coach suports his client to enter into an introspection, to question himself, to challenge his limiting beliefs to find in him the necessary resources to question himself and adapt to change.
Coaching questioning is used by the coach to support his client or the coached team in finding the resources he will need to resolve his problem
The questions are open, sometimes ingenuous, often powerful. The coach, in his posture considers that the coachee has all the skills in the field he wants to address in order to put in place the actions necessary to resolve the problem.
Questioning in Game Coaching
The art of questioning in game coaching retains all its importance in the implementation of the game
The questioning allows the group to assimilate the metaphor provided by the game and to “bypass” the logic by assimilating the rules of the game imposed as being the new standard to follow. By following the strict rules of the game, the coachee or the coached team experiments new avenues and allows themselves a change in behavior.
When the metaphor is in place, game coaching brings the coachee and the team back into their context and by questioning invites them to build bridges between the metaphor and the context.
Thus, the bridges experienced fit into the mind of the coachee as an exploitable potential and facilitate creativity and positive discussion between the members of the group.
Questioning in Game Coaching: the art of promoting team autonomy
Game coaching, by promoting the emergence of meaningful collective practices, promotes the putting into action of what really matters. To support the emergence of collective energy and the intelligence of the group, game coaching is often based on a new art, that of the Art of Hosting.
Both Art of Hosting and game coaching assume that the team puts its energy and skills into what it believes. Art Hosting involves a process of powerful conversations inviting each team member to identify what makes sense to them and to take charge of what matters to them. Thus, the group emerges a set of challenges which gradually leads it towards more autonomy.
For more details read also Game Coaching: what is it?
Author: Dominique Popiolek-Ollé, Transmutation leader, Agile Executive Coach, Founder of In Imago,management consulting and disruptive transformation.