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Coaching DojoAn Introduction To Powerful Questions
14 – 8 – 2012Joost Mulders
Welcome!
ScheduleWhat is a coaching dojo?
Powerful questions
Powerful questions exercise
Practice Powerful questions
What is a coaching dojo?
A place to learn coaching skills.
Safe environment.
Not directly related to current work activities.
Focus on the skills, not on the content.
What is a coaching dojo?
Subject Coach
Coaching activity
FeedbackFeedback
Observer
What is a coaching dojo?
Subject Coach
Coaching activity
FeedbackFeedback
Observer
What is a coaching dojo?
Important about feedback:
Feedback should be constructive.
Be open in receiving feedback.
Be respectful in giving feedback.
What is a coaching dojo?
When giving feedback, THINK:
True
Helpful
Inspiring
Necesarry
Kind
Powerful Questions
Powerful Questions
What is a powerful question?
Powerful Questions
What questions are not powerful?
Questions with a yes / no answer.Are you able to finish the project before the deadline?
Questions with the answer already in the question.
Will you be dissapointed when the team fails the sprint?
Don’t you think it is important to be on time for the meeting?
Powerful Questions
Non – powerful questions limit the response.
Powerful Questions
A powerful question activates the brain
Powerful Questions
A powerful question activates the brain
Powerful Questions
Are truly open
Are not asked with a “correct” answer in mind
Show true interest in the person
Why..?How..?What..?
Who, when, were?
Yes / No Questions
More Powerful
Less Powerful
Powerful Questions
Samples:
Is there another way?
How can you do that better?
Can you explain that to me?
What will this get you?
What is it we’re not seeing?
What is your responsibility?
Powerful Questions
That’s very abstract, let’s look at some more concrete
samples…
Powerful Questions
Sample 1:
What Agile engineering practice will add the most value to this Sprint?
Powerful Questions
Sample 2:
What will be your reaction when the team fails?
Powerful Questions
Sample 3:
What action item from our retrospective do you feel you have the most influence over?
Powerful Questions
Why would you want to use them:
Invite introspection
Reveal additional solutions
Lead to greater creativity and insight
Send people into a realm of discovery
Powerful Questions
Don’t forget to listen
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Enough theory, time to practice.
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Exercise 1:
Take the powerful question cards.
Order them from least powerful to most powerful from left to right.
Powerful Questions
Exercise 2:
Take one of the three least powerful questions.
Rephrase the question to create a powerful question.
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Practice exercise:
Make a group of 1 subject, 1 coach and 1 or more observers.
The subject presents a problem, the coach coaches the subject, the observer(s) provide feedback afterwards.
7 minutes coaching, 7 minutes feedback.
Rotate until each person has been the subject, coach and observer.
Powerful Questions
Debrief
10 min
Powerful Questions
Resources:
This presentationSlideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/muldersj
http://www.agiledevelopment.nl/powerful-questions/
Contact:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/joostmulders
Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/joostmulders
Thank you for your attention