http://www.mindbodyspiritjournal.com Our World. Your Life. No Limits Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:55:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.mindbodyspiritjournal.com/412/how-to-keep-up-with-the-latest-books-thinking-in-personal-development-management-more/ http://www.mindbodyspiritjournal.com/412/how-to-keep-up-with-the-latest-books-thinking-in-personal-development-management-more/#comments Wed, 21 Apr 2010 03:48:57 +0000 ken winston caine Achievement]]> Business Coaching]]> COACHING -- Personal-Development & Success]]> Coaching News]]> Holistic Living]]> Maintaining Constructive Attitude and Energy]]> On-Purpose Living]]> Resources]]> Right Livelihood]]> School of the Spirit]]> Whole Living]]> Wisdom]]> http://www.mindbodyspiritjournal.com/?p=412 http://www.mindbodyspiritjournal.com/412/how-to-keep-up-with-the-latest-books-thinking-in-personal-development-management-more/feed/ 1 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