This entry is part of a week-long series on powerful coaching questions. Dennis Beatty, who was mentoring me at the time, originally asked this question of me when I was a university student: “If you knew you couldn’t fail, what would you do for the glory of God?”...
This entry is part of a week-long series on powerful coaching questions. Let’s say you’re working with a leader who is wrestling with something or having difficulty putting together a plan. When you start asking them questions to help them brainstorm, like “What are...
Sometimes when I’m coaching people who are running up against very challenging circumstances or wrestling with very difficult problems, I need to remind myself of this: If it were easy, they wouldn’t need you. When people need coaching is when they’re struggling with...
When we are faced with a challenging goal, one of the first places our minds go is to what we don’t have. I could do this if I had__________. A question I like to ask to counter or pre-empt that scarcity mindset is, “What assets do you already have?” When we get...
Like peanut butter and chocolate, some things are just better together. Coaching and missional movements are like that. You understand the value of coaching. You want to cultivate a missional movement. But what happens when you put those two things together? That’s...
A new coach recently asked me, “What if you’re just not that organized?” She expanded on her dilemma: “I can ask good questions and be intuitive in the moment. I just don’t know how to keep the whole coaching relationship on track in the bigger picture. I’m not...
