If you have taken our coaching courses, you know that Effective Questions are key to drawing out self-awareness, insight, answers and solutions from your coachee. But, you are also aware that knowing what question to ask is a skill in and of itself. While there is no such thing as a good or bad question, we’ve developed a short list of some of our favourites.

We’ve all pressed pause on our lives—whether we like it or not. The present is saying: here is the gift of time, how will you make it worth your while, both in your home and on a global scale? If you think it’s hard to ask yourself this question, imagine how hard it might be to kickstart it with your teenager. Here are some coaching techniques that can help.

In Part One, we looked at the Forms of Help Spectrum. Though there is great intelligence here, it becomes even more interesting when combined with the Connection Hierarchy.

Over the last seven years of teaching coaching to educators, we’ve learned that choosing how best to help another does not always come easy. With too little time and so much to do, help can often look like a one-size-fits-all approach consisting of advising and telling.