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Oct 2021
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First 5 Minutes: Tell Me About a Place…:...

ELENA AGUILAR
About this episode

Today’s episode is the first in our special four-part First 5 Minutes series. These short episodes will provide you with all you need to know to incorporate one resilience-boosting question to use in your conversations.

In addition to providing you with a new question each week, Elena also walks through how to introduce this new type of question, models what that might look like, pulls back the curtain on why this question works and shares some wisdom on how to artfully put this into action. 

This episode is for you if: 

  • Your coachees are drained and/or overwhelmed and working from limited resilience reserves 
  • You’d like to learn a new way to open your coaching conversations 
  • You like concrete coaching tools! 

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