Listening
What does Listening look like, feel like and sound like?
Types of Questions
Questioning
Miscellaneous
100

The importance of listening in coaching.

What is gaining clarity about issues and understanding perceptions and needs of others?

100

Joining a coachee from her perspective.

What is listening? 
100

"Would you tell me a little more about?" is a type of. 

What is a clarifying question?

100

The most common mistake people make during questioning? 

What is using closed or right-or-wrong questions as as vehicles for conversation?

100

"What did you notice about the way you gave directions?" is what type of question? 

What is a leading-probing question? 

200

Committed listening

What is conveying to another that they are valued, that you are open to their ideas even if you do not agree with them, and that you would like to engage in dialogue? 

200

Repeating what the other person is saying.

What is active listening?

200

Questions that we ask when we know the other person doesn't have an answer but we do.

What are Stump questions?

200

"These three questions stand at the heart of many game-changing innovations including the invention of the microwave oven, Gatorade, Netflix, windshield wipers and the World Wide Web."

What are "Why, What If, and How" questions?

200

A question type that will help a coachee uncover thinking or beliefs. 

What are probing questions? 

300

Monitoring what is happening in your mind during a conversation.

How can we learn to listen well? 

300

An effective way to build trust with a client and demonstrate your intention to listen deeply. 

What is paraphrasing?

300

These questions elicit unlimited responses and provide the opportunity for an expansive, extended response.

What are open questions? For example, "What do you think about the new reading program?"

300

Two things you can do to be nonjudgmental when asking questions. 

What are listening without assumption and letting go of the desire to give advice? 

300
Asking to many of these types of questions may make a coachee feel defensive. 

What are "why" questions? 

400

Providing silence after a person finishes speaking. 

What is "scared space?"

400

A list of question stems and language that can reflect listening that we practice in role-plays. 

What is using dyads to practice listening? 

400

These questions elicit limited responses and they always ask for answers to which a complete response can be given. 

What are closed questions? For example, "What is the new reading program?" 

400
Asking questions because we are genuinely interested.

What is humble inquiry? 

400

The missing ingredients in most conversations. 

What are curiosity and willingness to ask questions to which we do not already have the answers. 

500

Judgement or criticism, autobiographical listening, inquisitive listening, solution listening, and listening without an obligation to act. 

What are unproductive patterns of listening?

500

Being mindful of our body and words, leaning forward and looking the coachee in the eyes. 

What are ways to show we are listening? 

500

Questions for which there are correct and incorrect answers. 

What are right-or-wrong questions?

500

Three strategies that aid us in asking better questions.

What are being curious, asking open questions, and being nonjudgmental? 

500
The four kinds of unhelpful questions. 

What are demand questions, set-up questions, stump questions, and angry questions?