Empowering Questions
Empowering questions help the coach and client discover what is important. They cause the client to think, and they clarify and cause the client to elaborate in ways that are useful to the task at hand. And most of all they cause the client to take action.
Ordinary questions involve yes or no answers, while empowering questions are open ended that begin with who, what ,where, when, etc.
For example one might ask: How does such an action serve you? What concerns do you have about following that path? or Would you say more please?
By listening carefully, your intuition will prime you as to what the next step should be in the coach/client relationship.
There are no right or wrong questions in coaching but some questions are better then others.