"Coaching for Dummies" with 3 Simple Questions
I have no idea if this book is any good, maybe you should give it a try, or we can cut to the chase and you can work with some version of these three simple questions.
- What are you hoping will happen?
- What are your options?
- What will you do?
We all do it.
We have a compulsion to be "tellers". Our hearts are probably right. We want to help people toward solutions. We want to save them the pain we had to walk through when we dealt with their "thing". We want to expedite the process.
But it's not the Jesus way.
Jesus asked us to make disciples, not dependents. That's really the heart of coaching. When we ask questions instead of teaching or telling we empower people to learn to discern God's voice in their own lives.
Here's how that works.
Recently I was talking with a co-worker who needed some advice. She was dealing with a tricky situation she needed to confront.
- I could have told her my stories of how I confronted situations like that in the past....
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