Coaching practices for Awl Question Coaching Habit

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• Someone brings me a problem and I grab their very first sentence and start solving it
• I only ever coach in the rare formal sit-down and then default to firing off answers in every quick hallway exchange
• The people I coach leave fired up with a plan, but the first ordinary snag throws them and the whole thing quietly dies
• When I replay my coaching conversations I’m talking way more than the other person
• When I coach people, almost everything out of my mouth is about their body

Practices that may help

1. Ask "And what else?"
   The first answer is rarely the most important one — "And what else?" pulls out the one that actually matters.
   The Coaching Habit: Seven Questions to Be More Coach-Like
2. Use GROW in brief leadership conversations, not just formal coaching sessions
   Apply GROW structure to 5-minute hallway conversations and 1-on-1 check-ins — not only to hour-long coaching sessions.
   The GROW Model: Coaching Conversations That Actually Move People
3. Obstacle anticipation before close
   Before ending, ask "what could get in the way?" and pre-plan the response.
   The GROW Coaching Model, Made Practical
4. The Coaching Habit: Seven Questions to Be More Coach-Like
   Michael Bungay Stanier’s seven questions — from "What’s on your mind?" through "What was most useful for you?" — are a practical system for coaching conversations that takes less than a minute to learn and a career to master. The framework is practitioner-derived from behavioral coaching practice; its mechanisms are grounded in autonomy support, self-determination, and the generation effect. The questions work because they shift the cognitive labor back to the person who owns the problem.
5. Maintain a high question-to-statement ratio throughout GROW
   Ask questions far more often than you offer statements — the coachee’s thinking is the product.
   The GROW Model: Coaching Conversations That Actually Move People
6. Rewrite internal-focus coaching cues as external-focus equivalents
   Audit your coaching language and convert body-focused instructions to effect-focused ones.
   External Focus of Attention, Made Practical
7. Powerful open questions at every stage
   Ask questions that invite thinking, not ones that suggest answers — and ask more than you tell.
   The GROW Coaching Model, Made Practical
8. Close the GROW loop with session review
   At the start of the next session, review what was committed and what actually happened before setting a new goal.
   The GROW Coaching Model, Made Practical
9. Close with "What was most useful for you?"
   The closing question turns the conversation into a learning that sticks — and teaches you what is actually valuable.
   The Coaching Habit: Seven Questions to Be More Coach-Like
10. Graduating a question when the behavior becomes automatic
    Retire a question from the list when it scores consistently 8 or above — mastery earned is bandwidth freed.
    The Morning Questions

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