How
Coaching Cubes support the coaching process
One of the most effective techniques to help someone develop
their own thinking is to ask them questions. Good questions prompt new
thoughts, bring previous experiences to bear on present dilemmas, shed new
light on the issue, and prompt plans for action. This Coaching Cube set
introduces 36 carefully worded and targeted questions suitable for use in any
coaching situation.
Introduction to the coaching Cubes
The Coaching Cubes are designed to be used and rolled as dice.
They are squidgy, robust, and bright, bringing a fun, tactile, and colorful
edge to the coaching process. Each colored cube is themed:
The Green
cube explores the positive aspects of someone’s work and life,
positively affecting perspective and mood.
The Blue
cube identifies people important to the situation, stimulating
context-aware thinking.
The Orange
cube creates shifts in perspective to throw new light on the
topic, revealing new insights and possibilities for action.
The Pink
cube illuminates ideas, values and energy, the powerhouse for
energized possibilities.
The Purple
cube creates movement, facilitating energized action.
The Red
cube clarifies first steps, the beginning of feasible,
effective, motivated and energized change.
Using your Coaching Cubes > VIDEO DEMO
The cubes are designed to be versatile. Here are seven
suggestions for how and when you can use the Coaching Cubes to add value to the
coaching process.
1) To support the coaching process from beginning to end
The cubes can be used to shape a whole coaching session from
‘exploring the positives’ with the Green cube right through to ‘deciding on
actions’ with the Red cube. Alternatively, at any point in the conversation
they can be used separately or all together, revealing a choice of 1-6
questions at each throw.
2) To facilitate self-coaching and engaging
Want to work on an issue of your own? Roll a cube and answer the
question, roll another. Make notes on the thinking and ideas generated as you
go. You will soon experience a shift in your thinking and new ways forward will
begin to appear.
3) To help someone relax into the process
Perhaps you are working with someone who finds the intensity of
one-to-one coaching uncomfortable. Using the cubes as dice gives them something
to handle and focus on while lessening the requirement for eye contact.
4) To promote ownership of the process
Actively involve the person you are working with. Let them
select which dice to roll or question to answer to encourage active
participation and engagement.
5) To support peer coaching or coaching skills training
The coaching cubes offer an instant resource to inexperienced or
trainee coaches. One of the hardest coaching skills to learn is that of developing
generative questions. By using the cubes the participants can access thirty-six
useful questions.
6) To get a session moving again
If the conversation runs into a dead-end, roll all the dice,
look at the six questions together and ask your client ‘which of these are you
most drawn to engage with right now?’ and pretty soon you will find yourself
back in a productive place.
7) To move on from ‘why don’t you’, ‘yes but’ conversations
Even
the most experienced coaches occasionally find themselves being drawn into this
unfruitful exchange. Break the cycle by rolling the dice and asking questions
that doesn’t contain any advice!
Testimonials
Since making the wise
decision :) to include Appreciating Change’s Coaching Cubes in one of my
corporate coaching sessions in early December, I have become a genuine believer
in “Cube Power”.
What a superbly “simple” way to power-charge coaching sessions and motivate
clients.
Have participants roll their individual Coaching Cubes and watch the magic
happen as thought-provoking questions move your people to share insights on
irksome topics. Enthusiasm for the Coaching Cubes increases exponentially as
inhibitions lessen. Valuable discussions invariably pull loose “what if”
threads together, thus promoting clear, precise, long-lasting “client authored”
results.
WOW. Thank you, Sarah! - Christine Demmy-Moldenhauer
I'm really looking
forward to using these with my next coaching client. A playful approach with a
serious purpose, to elicit good self conversation and insight. - Deborah Barleggs
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