Tools for the Discovery Stage in Appreciative Coaching: Scaling Questions
Using Appreciative Inquiry in coaching: how to use scaling questions in the Discovery stage
Using Appreciative Inquiry in coaching: how to use scaling questions in the Discovery stage
How to use Appreciative Inquiry in one-to-one coaching: help your client rediscover their strengths with appreciative interviews
Let’s take a moment to recall the two distinctive features of Appreciative Inquiry described by Jackie Stavros and Cheri Torres in Conversations Worth Having: positive framing (‘flipping’ problem statements so that they’re positively phrased, about what we want instead of the problem), and generative questioning (where the questions are designed to provoke new ideas and
This article follows on from previous articles considering the other quadrants of the Experience Cube: Observations, Thoughts, Emotions, and (obviously) Wants part 1 – so you might want to read those first. The Experience Cube is a model from Gervase Bushe’s excellent book Clear Leadership: Sustaining Real Collaboration and Partnership at Work If They Want