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Asking your clients these coaching evaluation questions is a way to get feedback about your coaching and a fabulous tool to help get authentic testimonials.
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Asking the right questions at the end of a coaching series or program helps the client anchor the benefits of coaching with you. They also give you valuable feedback on how effective your coaching has been and where improvements might be made.
You should aim to ask open-ended questions. That is questions that require more than just a "yes" or "no" answer but get the client to think, reflect and share.
For instance a question like:
"What new strengths can you see you have developed from the coaching experience?" can help your client to realise and acknowledge changes and achievements they may not even have recognised and acknowledged to themselves.
This is just one of the 10 questions I have suggested below .
You can either ask the questions as part of the completion
process in the final session or send them to the client to complete as a life coaching evaluation form.
Personally I recommend the former as it is more personal and flexible and done immediately, so you are not waiting anxiously for a reply from a client who has moved on and may not see it as a priority to get back to you.
You can, of course, put these questions in your own words and adapt them to suit your particular style or make more relevant for your coaching specialty.
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If you find it a challenge thinking of the right questions to ask, 555 Powerful Questions for Coaching, Mentoring and Leading at Work by Mauricio Vasquez (yes it is a mouthful😊) is a handy book to invest in for all areas of coaching.
You can have a peek in the book before a session with a client, when you know certain issues are going to come up, and find some relevant powerful questions to ask.
The book is divided into numerous sections for questions in various coaching situations, such as Action, Accountability, Goals, Change, Decisions and so on.
(You can see the full list in the sample of the book on Amazon).