Powerful Questions App

You might already be familiar with David’s e-book containing hundreds of questions coaches and mentors can use to unblock the thinking of clients, across a wide range of commonly encountered topic areas.

‘Powerful Questions for Coaches and Mentors’ has now been made into an app to give you a handy list of insightful questions to help your coachee or mentee move forward when they become stuck. This is the digitised version of his popular e-book of the same name and covers over 70 different situations and up to 15 questions per scenario.

The perfect guide for coaches and mentors to keep handy so that its always with you when you need inspiration.

A core function of developmental coaching and mentoring is that it helps people with the quality of their thinking about issues that are important to them. One of the ways effective coaches/mentors do this is to ask powerful questions – questions that oblige the learner to engage with different perspectives on their issues.

How to use this app

Each of the situations in this app has been selected because it occurs frequently, or is relatively difficult to address when it does occur, or both. We recommend that you use the app in the following ways:

• To generally build your confidence so that you have a way forward when your coachee or mentee seems stuck
• To prepare for coaching and mentoring conversations when you know a particular issue is going to arise
• To share with a coachee or mentee during a meeting, to agree together which questions will be most helpful and insight provoking in the moment
• To reflect on coaching and mentoring conversations and identify different ways of tackling similar situations, as they arise in the future

For each of the more than 70 situations, we provide 5-15 questions that will help you help your clients, along with a short description of how to approach the issues within that scenario.