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The Lean Post / Articles / Asking Effective Questions: The Foundation of Coaching with Margie Hagene

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Asking Effective Questions: The Foundation of Coaching with Margie Hagene

By Margie Hagene

September 24, 2012

Lean Enterprise Institute faculty member Margie Hagene offers tips for using the four types of questions -- humble, diagnostic, prompting, and process inquiries -- in order to be a more effective coach. She also offers advice based on her own experience on how to do develop a personal plan-do-check-act plan for using the questions on the job.  

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Lean Enterprise Institute faculty member Margie Hagene offers tips for using the four types of questions — humble, diagnostic, prompting, and process inquiries — in order to be a more effective coach. She also offers advice based on her own experience on how to do develop a personal plan-do-check-act plan for using the questions on the job.

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About Margie Hagene

Margie’s teaching and coaching focus is organizational effectiveness and lean thinking / continuous improvement. For over thirty years, she has helped executives and senior leaders recognize their changing roles and responsibilities in complex systems. By providing frameworks for thinking and learning, and evidence-based structures for practice, she supports leaders in identifying…

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