http://www.mindbodyspiritjournal.com Our World. Your Life. No Limits Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:44:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.mindbodyspiritjournal.com/201/ask-powerful-questions-to-achieve-powerful-results/ http://www.mindbodyspiritjournal.com/201/ask-powerful-questions-to-achieve-powerful-results/#comments Wed, 21 Nov 2007 04:15:42 +0000 ken winston caine Achievement]]> Business Coaching]]> COACHING -- Personal-Development & Success]]> Coaching News]]> Communication]]> Community]]> Cool Sites, Holistic Partners]]> Focus]]> Healing]]> Healing Power of Talk]]> Holistic Living]]> How to Make 'Simple' Serenely Elegant]]> Intention]]> Journaling]]> Lifehacks]]> Maintaining Constructive Attitude and Energy]]> Manifesting Your Desires]]> Meaning]]> On-Purpose Living]]> Positive Energy]]> Positive Spirituality]]> Quakers, Quakerism, Quaker Experience]]> School of the Spirit]]> Self-Healing]]> Spirit]]> Spirit of Wellness]]> Whole Living]]> Wisdom]]> http://www.mindbodyspiritjournal.com/life-coaching-reporter/ask-powerful-questions-to-achieve-powerful-results 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:]]> http://www.mindbodyspiritjournal.com/201/ask-powerful-questions-to-achieve-powerful-results/feed/ 0 http://www.mindbodyspiritjournal.com/112/resource-free-powerful-mind-mapping-software/ http://www.mindbodyspiritjournal.com/112/resource-free-powerful-mind-mapping-software/#comments Thu, 06 Jul 2006 02:08:41 +0000 ken winston caine Business Coaching]]> COACHING -- Personal-Development & Success]]> Coaching News]]> Communication]]> Focus]]> Healing Power of Mind]]> How to Make 'Simple' Serenely Elegant]]> Journaling]]> Living with Stress]]> Meaning]]> Mind]]> On-Purpose Living]]> Resources]]> http://www.mindbodyspiritjournal.com/?p=112 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:]]> http://www.mindbodyspiritjournal.com/112/resource-free-powerful-mind-mapping-software/feed/ 1