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Powerful Questions: Problem Solving shows you the coaching way to helping people solve their own problems, presenting three powerful coaching skills for developing creative solutions and overcoming obstacles. You'll learn how to take people to their ideal future to get around the limitations of the present, the obstacle approach to problem solving, and how to take brainstorming to the transformational level of values, beliefs and identity.

In this 65-minute audio course, you'll learn by listening to a great coach at work! Much of the art of asking powerful questions is caught, not taught, and these in-depth coaching demonstrations will help you catch the feel for how a break-through question grows out of the context of a coaching conversation. The course includes a brief input session outlining several problem solving approaches, followed by two live, unrehearsed coaching demos that show how those techniques work for one coachee who is starting a business, and another who is trying to write a book. We'll cover:

1. The Obstacle Approach homes in on what stops you and brainstorms ways around it.
2. The Ideal Future Approach bypasses the limitations of the present by exploring the ideal.
3. The Transformational Approach moves the focus beyond circumstances to God's purpose.

We've also included a wealth of problem-solving hints and tips, a transcript of all the coaching questions asked in the demos, plus handouts with sample problem-solving questions and outlines of the problem-solving techniques used.