Asking effective coaching questions’
Featured in the The Coaching Skills Activity Pack training manual
By Tony Gillen
Category: Mentoring and Coaching
Credit price: 2 download credits (Single user)
This is a fun session, which really helps participants to improve their questioning skills as coaches. The activity consists of two exercises: one to emphasise the need for co-operating partners to communicate effectively in order to achieve goals, and to use questions as the basis for communicating: the other enables coaches to improve their questioning skills by focusing on what a performer is most aware of as they carry out a task.
You introduce the training activity with a pairs exercise, which highlights the problems caused by a lack of information and communication. You review the exercise and discuss effective questioning as a solution. The participants then repeat the exercise, having shared their personal goals with their partners, and then review their greatly improved results. In the next pairs exercise, one partner becomes the coach and the other becomes the performer. The performer sets a goal and carries out the task. The coach’s role is to ask effective questions to help the performer become more aware of their activities in order to improve performance. Finally, you review the major points of the training activity.
Who is it for: The training resource is intended for use by trainers to help develop participants questioning skills in order to improve performance.
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 6 |
| Max Group Size: | 12 |
| Typical Duration: | 01:20:00 |
| No of Pages: | 8 |
Resources: View standard resources for Fenman training activities
Additional resources: 3 tennis balls, 1 bucket or box per pair
Purpose: This training resource introduces this paired coaching activity with anyone who is learning to coach. It is also valuable as a way of improving questioning skills in general
Download the training activity, Asking effective coaching questions’ as featured in the Fenman training manual; The Coaching Skills Activity Pack