Interrogation is not a coaching skill.
It is a Control Drama.
Interrogation is the control drama of the Interrogator.
Interrogators ask questions that:
- Judge, blame & condemn
- Are critical, cynical, sarcastic and skeptical
- Deprive others of their authority
- Have a negative purpose and intent
- Seek to compete with another
- Are controlling and seek to find fault
Interrogation is how the Interrogator passively competes with another for their emotional energy.
Interrogators seek to confuse, lose and frustrate whoever they are questioning.
They probe with closed questions to get the answers that they require.
Coaches ask open questions that elicit a beneficial answer for the client.
A Coaching Question gives clarity, direction and presence, in order to guide and support the one who seeks their own answer.