Sunday Jun 29, 2025

#004 Mastering the Coach-Leadership Conversation Arc: Key Questions at Every Stage

You're joining me on the Leaders Who Coach™ Podcast today to master the Coach-Leadership Conversation Arc.

This is going to take the boredom, the frustration, the confusion, the wasted energy, the lack of outcome or painfully slow decision-making... basically the drag out of your conversations.

And when you start to apply this Leaders Who Coach™ conversation arc consistently to more and more of your meetings, you'll be thanking me and wondering why no-one ever told you about it before now.

Key chapters in this episode are:

00:00 Introduction
01:16 The purpose of the coach-leadership conversation arc
02:01 The 3 parts of the conversation arc — the beginning, middle and end
03:38 The BEGINNING of the coach-leadership conversation arc
05:02 Agreeing the meeting agenda
06:32 Contracting the outcome of the conversation
08:26 The MIDDLE of the coach-leadership conversation arc — exploration
09:27 What to listen out for in conversations
09:52 Hold back on ‘solutioning’, create ownership instead
12:18 The Who Energy Model™ for Leaders Who Coach™
13:16 Your Leaders Who Coach™ Conversation Challenge
15:04 Questions ask during exploration
17:36 Questions — the most powerful tool in leadership and the most underused
18:43 Socrates and critical thinking skills
20:24 The END in the conversation arc — designing actions
21:01 Questions to ask during designing actions
22:09 Nuances like giving advice or sharing additional information
24:36 Banish boredom and confusion in one-to-one conversations