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It takes courage to ask questions, not to offer advice, provide answers, or propose solutions. Give another person the opportunity to find their own way, make their own mistakes, and create their own wisdom that is both brave and vulnerable. It also means abandoning our 'problem-solving' habits. ”
Bren Brown.
Fact-finding is the core process and approach of coaching
Creative, personalized, and powerful questioning is one of the most important tools for coaches. Powerful questions support the coachee's personal awareness and development. Use in conjunction with other coaching techniques, such as sharing observations, discovering patterns, and challenging beliefs; Powerful questions are an impactful way to help clients understand who I am and how I see my world. When a coach tailors a client's questions to suit them, the coach goes into the client's world and deals with their inner thoughts, feelings, beliefs, values, needs, and desires to be seen. Author of Organizational Culture and Leadership, Professor Ed Sheehan of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, describes humble inquiry as "the art of getting people to speak, the art of asking questions that answer unknown questions, and the art of building relationships based on curiosity and interest in others." "Build a relationship of mutual trust, understand the real situation, and facilitate in-depth process exchanges.
True humble inquiry presupposes a sincere heart. Humility cannot be faked, and people's ability to perceive others is actually beyond their own imagination. Through your movements, voice, tone, expressions, and gestures, the other person can detect whether you are sincere or not. And with a sincere heart, with a desire to really understand the other person's advice, especially the deep understanding of the other party's familiar areas. It is only in this way that inquiry is a gesture of humility. Without "sincerity", you cannot gain the trust of others. 
The magic of only asking questions and not recommending: the validation of neuroscience
Asking questions can get the attention of your customers and inspire them to explore, discover, experiment, learn, grow, and change! There are compelling reasons to use neuroscience's experience in coaching and change:Asking questions stimulates new thinking and insight. The Neuroplasticity study tells us that our brains can naturally change, allowing us to embrace our own creative thinking and new knowledge. When we learn, our neurons can move to new locations in the brain as needed. "Questioning" is the catalyst that triggers the brain to change and move forward with a new perspective.
Why is it important when a coach asks coaching questions to a client?
First of all, what is a coaching question? A true coaching question is creative, personalized, and powerful. A coaching question is an unbooting question, a rhetorical question, an embarrassing personal question – or a question with an embedded solution.
Neuroscience proven.
When we ask coaching questions, the coachee's entire brain becomes more active in response, releasing serotonin (a natural mood stabilizer). This helps to gather information from the intelligence brain: Coaching questions give the coachee more insight than providing advice, answers, or solutions. As the coachee's brain gets closer to new discoveries, new neural connections begin to form, and the brain begins to output its own new ideas, answers, or solutions. With the release of serotonin, the brain produces a surge of energy (or insight) when it is excited, which in turn discovers an opinion, answer, or solution. The coachee who receives the question has actually activated their brain, and this energy can be the motivation for action.
While the brain's energy burst is short-lived, we can help the coachee harness this new energy, new awareness, and insight by asking the coachee to commit to planning actions moving forward, as well as asking them to take responsibility for their commitments. "Learn to recognize that moment – when you ask that question, your conversation comes to a halt. You can see that when the person is actually thinking and finding the answer, it's a silent heartbeat, and you can almost see that new neural connections are forming. ”
The Way of Coaching The Coach's Questions can expand the perspective, awareness, seeing, and experience of the coachee. Coaching questions can: concentration; nurturing curiosity; evoke awareness and insight; evoke new perspectives or possibilities; Inspire new thinking and action; expanding potential and capacity; Encourage self-responsibility. 7 ways to practice asking powerful questions
below7 exercises to ask powerful questionsto help coaches and clients maximize self-awareness, self-growth, and learningLet your questions emerge naturally from deep listening, curiosity, and silence. Ask 1 question at a time. Stop and give your client space to "sit down" and answer the question. Pause is also a fertile space in which our problems can grow. Ask open-ended questions to maximize neural connections. Use closed-ended questions when you want to invite customers to a focal point. Potential and possibilities of the client, rather than gathering information or seeking explanations. Increase customer awareness of what's going on around them. For example, "When you say this, do you notice what is in your body?" What's going on over there? Or, "Are you noticing any emotions or sensations in your body?" "We live in a world created by problems. —Appreciative Inquiry
Asking questions fosters curiosity, self-awareness, and insight in both the coach and the client. I hope this article can inspire you to ask more creative, personalized and powerful questions, and you are also welcome to write comments in the comment area, and we will work together**!