The Modern Leadership Coaching Podcast

Questions Over Answers: Empowering Clients Through Curiosity


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Curiosity beats quick fixes—and the difference shows up in your client’s results. We dig into the real reason new coaches rush to solutions, the hidden costs of assumption-led sessions, and the simple, reliable practices that keep coaching client-centered and effective. Instead of prescribing steps, we show how to use targeted, clean questions to reveal what matters, expand options, and build genuine ownership.

We break down clean thinking, a practical method to catch your own biases in the moment and steer back to the client’s world. You’ll hear why giving answers often backfires—creating dependency and misfit plans—and how a single reframe, like “How could you excel at both?” shifts a client from either-or to both-and. We share the follow-up that multiplies momentum—“How could one make you better at the other?”—and talk through ways to keep curiosity warm, precise, and ethical without drifting into vague conversation. Expect concrete examples, language you can use today, and a structure for sessions that moves from discovery to expansion to selection and small, testable actions.

If you’re building coaching skills, leading teams, or guiding clients through change, this conversation gives you questions that open doors, not directions that close them. Listen for the moments where curiosity created a breakthrough, learn how to avoid questions that send clients down dead ends, and get a preview of the next lesson on working with client perspectives without planting limiting beliefs. If this helped sharpen your practice, follow the show, share it with a coach who’s stuck in advice mode, and leave a review so more people find these tools.

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