Train your brain to choose curiosityOnce you train your brain to lean into curiosity before it jumps to giving advice, then everything else comes more easily. When you're genuinely curious about what ideas your team member already had to solve a challenge, instead of just focused on a technique to reach an outcome, then it's a lot easier to ask open ended questions. Read more
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Once you train your brain to lean into curiosity before it jumps to giving advice, then everything else comes more easily. When you're genuinely curious about what ideas your team member already had to solve a challenge, instead of just focused on a technique to reach an outcome, then it's a lot easier to ask open ended questions. Read more
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I had a whole draft ready to go for you today about common ways to improve your coaching questions, but then someone sent in a question that preempted that! So you can look forward to a discussion of coaching questions next time! Today, though, we’re just about 3 weeks away from the deadline to register for Lead With Curiosity: Coaching skills for library leaders, so it feels pretty urgent to respond to this question: How do you advocate for the value of coaching in a way that will convince…Read more