Coaching Dojo with circle coaching & scaling questions

How does circle coaching work?

We had one coachee and all three others were coaches and observers, obviously.

We coached in a round robin system. Every coach had to use one of three types of questions in coching, before the next coach continued:

• a scaling question or
• a "one point higher" question
• an observation (with an open question)

How do scaling questions work?

Scaling questions are AFAIK quite often used in Solution Focused Coaching. You can get a quick overview about scaling questions at wikipedia. According to wikipedia:

"Scaling questions invite clients to employ measuring and tracking of their own experience, in a non-threatening way"

Conclusion & Learning

• Circle coaching involves everyone, group learning is IMHO higher, I like it a lot.
• Scaling questions are not that hard to use
• Mastering good coaching questions requires quite some practice. In a circle you have some more time to think about your next question, but you also have to care for where your predecessor leads the coachee.
• I heard, that scaling questions are more used in situations with difficult coachees.

Will I use both methods in the future? Absolutely