Many textbooks in coaching and mentoring advise against using questions beginning with why? The reasoning behind this advice is that why questions are more likely to be seen as critical or inquisitorial and to put people on the defensive – and hence get ion the way of their reflection. In Transactional Analysis terms, it tends…
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