Powerful Questioning: Change Your Questions, Change Your Life

October 21, 2015

The session takes its title from my book, Change Your Questions, Change Your Life: 10 Powerful Tools for Life and Work, which is a bestselling business fable about an executive coach. He teaches that the heart of coaching lies in asking questions of clients to help them discover their own best answers—since their own answers are their most important source for creating and owning the changes they want.

The webinar and the book introduce Question Thinking™ (QT), an easy-to-use methodology and set of tools for transforming thinking, action, and results through intentional and skillful question asking. Specifically, Question Thinking adds an important dimension to the ICF Competency #6,

Powerful Questioning. Typically, this competency focuses on interpersonal questioning, while QT additionally illuminates the domain of internal questioning in a practical way, including in each of the ICF Competencies.

Participants in the webinar will be introduced to two success factors of successful coaching: operating with a Learner (not Judger) mindset and expertly using Learner (not Judger) questioning. QT skills and tools empower both coach and coachee’s ability to think clearly and strategically, communicate more effectively and gracefully, and reach their goals and desired changes more easily, efficiently, and predictably. Participants will also learn how to discern the kinds of questions that block success and change them into the kinds of questions that help evoke breakthrough thinking and desired new results.

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Marilee Adams, Ph.D.

Marilee Adams, Ph.D. is an executive coach and coach educator, author, organizational consultant, and professional speaker. She is president of the Inquiry Institute, a consulting, coaching, and educational organization and is an Adjunct Professor at American University in the Key Executive Leadership Program. Marilee also teaches coaching and questioning skills for the Institute for Life Coach Training, Adler Coaching Institute (Adler Learning International), and Expedition Coaching.

Marilee’s books include Change Your Questions, Change Your Life: 10 Powerful Tools for Life and Work; The Art of the Question: A Guide to Short-Term Question-Centered Therapy (a cognitive-behavioral psychology text); and Teaching that Changes Lives: 12 Mindset Tools for Igniting the Love of Learning. Change Your Questions, Change Your Life is a quick-read business fable about an executive coach and includes a workbook of practical tools. It is also an Amazon #1 Bestseller in Learning in Organizations and Business

and has sold over 200,000 copies in almost 20 languages. Change Your Questions is required or recommended reading in many coach training programs. Marilee has spoken to a number of ICF chapters and at the International Coach Federation Conference.