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Ask powerful questions to achieve powerful results

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

by ken winston caine

The questions you ask and choose to explore shape the outcomes you achieve. The trick is to ask powerful questions.

They cut to the chase. They move you forward quickly and smartly.

Asking powerful questions is at the heart of “coaching” as it was developed by Thomas Leonard. And I’ve been collecting lists of powerful questions, or coaching questions, for 11 years — ever since I was first exposed to Leonard’s approach.

But simply being armed with a mile-long list of powerful questions does not make one a good coach. Or guarantee you magnificent, rapid, sustainable personal success. The good coach and the smart achiever know how to ask the right type of question at exactly the right moment.

Better, I think, to understand what a powerful question is, so that you can instinctively pose one when it is needed, than to have a long list of questions to sort through. (Though a list is valuable.)

So what is a powerful question?

The best explanation I have come across comes not from the world of life coaching or business coaching or corporate coaching, but from pioneers of The World Cafe process, Juanita Brown and David Isaacs.

They write, on their website, that a powerful question has eight defining characteristics: (more…)

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RESOURCE: Free, powerful mind-mapping software stimulates creative thinking, inspires and captures your brainstorms, and helps you organize your thoughts and presentations

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

Powerful, open-source mind-mapping software for Windows, Mac, Linux and Solaris. Free. With full documentation.

Not familiar with mind maps? Here’s an example of one.

This computer program known as Cmap lets you document and manipulate a visual record of your best brainstorming efforts.

Mindmapping is a great tool for stimulating creative thought and for organizing complex thinking into simple, intuitive and logical patterns.

Cmap lets you create mind maps right on your computer screen.

You can pay hundreds of dollars for this kind of software. Or you can download powerpacked, open source Cmap for free.

Download it at: (more…)

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Five wonderful ways to tame anxiety and stress

Sunday, June 18th, 2006

by Ananga Sivyer

Life doesn’t always go as planned. Stuff happens, and things can soon build into the proverbial mountains from molehills if we let them. Here are some pointers for keeping buoyant in the face of adversity.

1. Get Some (more…)

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