Quick-Reference Guide: 10 Techniques to Open a Coaching Session

What’s included

Here’s the techniques covered in this Quick-Reference Guide:

✅ Establishing a safe coaching environment

✅ Supporting your coachee to say ‘yes’ to them

✅ Creating continuity and linking to the previous session

✅ Box breathing (mindfulness technique)

✅ Setting a Goal for the session (GROW)

✅ Chunking up to achieve motivation and agreement

✅ Chunking down to the heart of the challenge

✅ Defining the bridge to be built

✅ Paint a picture (visual technique)

✅ Scale of commitment

Including scripts and more than 100 questions to support you to set up your coaching sessions.

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» Effective tips and tools for new coaches and people leaders
» Introduction copy helps you understand the context of each tool and technique
» Questions and scripts can be scanned as a quick-reference, or read directly if coaching virtually
» The design of the tools help set up an effective opening of your coaching session

Creating a sense of certainty and structure up front is key for effective coaching conversations and helps to establish trust. It is also important to ensure you land on a clear goal for the coaching session, as part of your session opening. Goals set by the coachee define what it is they want to get out of the coaching session and help determine the overall success of the engagement.

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