Awareness Question

Coaching Questions

• What do you want?
• What is the dream?
• What's the ideal?
• What is this costing you?
• What are you attached to?
• What is beyond this problem?
• What is ahead?
• What are you building towards?
• What has to happen for you to feel successful?
• What's stopping you?
• What are you afraid of?
• What would make the biggest difference here?
• What are you going to do?
• What do you like to do?
• What is the impact of doing that?
• What is the impact of not doing that?
• What do you hope to accomplish by doing that?
• What benefit/pay-off is there in the present situation?
• What's the first step?
• What's important about that?
• What would it take to treat yourself like your best client?
• How do you best re-energize?
• What do you expect to have happen?
• What's the ideal outcome?
• What would it look like?
• What's the right action?
• What's working for you?
• What would you do differently?
• What decision would you make from a position of abundance?
• What other choices do you have?
• What do you really want?
• What if there were no limits?
• What are you getting out of this situation?
• What is missing here?
• What is it that you are denying yourself right now?
• What question would you like me to ask you?
• Is there anything that needs to be said that has not been said?
• What are you not facing?
• What are you not saying?
• What else do you have to say about that?
• What is that?
• What comes first?
• What consequences are you avoiding?
• What is the value you received from this meeting/conversation?
• What motivates you?
• What does that remind you of?
• What is behind that?
• What part of what I said was useful? And how?
• What is this person contributing to the quality of you life?
• What do you need to put in place to accomplish this?
• What is the simplest solution here?
• What are you avoiding?
• What is the worst that could happen?
• What are you committed to?
• If you knew, what would it be?
• What's your heart telling you?
• What are you willing to give up?
• What does this feeling remind you of?
• How do you feel about the fact that you did that?
• What did you do differently that made this happen?
• How does that impact how you feel about yourself?
• How has this been a breakthrough for you?
• What will you do differently now you know you have the power to do this?
• Where else in your life could you be taking action rather that waiting for things to happen?
• What has this taught you about yourself?
• Is this something that you might be doing in other areas of you life? Where else?
• What impact is this having on you?
• What's on your shoulders?
• Is this something you want to do something about?
• How can you tackle it this week?
• What else do you need to do so you can move forward on this?
• Are you clear you will be able to do that this week? If not what are you willing to commit to?

Measuring a goal

• How will I, your coach, know when you get there?
• Imagine yourself having achieved this goal: what will you see/hear/feel around you?
• What elements will be in place which were not present before?
• What will you be able to do that you could not do before?
• What tangible changes will there be in you life/work?

Setting actions

• Is there an action you would like to take around that?
• How will you do that?
• When will you do that?
• Is there anything you need to do before that?
• What would you like to do about that?
• Is that an action you can commit to?
• Could you do more?
• How many?
• How much?
• How often?

Reviewing uncompleted actions

• How do you feel about not having completed that action?
• How important is it to you?
• What is the impact if you don't do it next week?
• Can I Ask whether it was about not having the time, or might you have put other things in the way to avoid having to do this?

First aid

• Is there a question you would like me to ask to help you with this?
• What do you need to say to help you feel better about this?
• What needs to be in place to move you forward on this?

GROW: Goal

• What would you like to have happen?
• How would you like it to be?
• In an ideal world, what sort of things would you like to see in place here?
• How would it look three months from now?
• Can you say what you want in one sentence?
• How would you like it to be in an ideal world?
• How do you feel when you say that goal out loud?
• How challenging is it?
• What is you insight about this?
• Imagine you have achieved what you want in 12 weeks this:
  • What elements are in place?
  • What can you see/think/feel?
  • What tangible changes are there in your life through achieving this?

GROW: Reality

• How important is this to your?
• How do you feel about this?
• What impact is this having on you?
• What's on your shoulders?
• How nervous are you, out of 10?
• If an ideal situation is 10, what number are you at now?
• What number would you like to be at?
• Can you tell me what is happening for you at the moment in this area?
• How does this impact other areas of you life?
• What does that tell about yourself?
• What do you know that you did not know before?
• What is your insight about that?
• What are you three greatest insights about that?
• What can you do now that you could not do before?
• What have you learned about yourself during the coaching series?
• What were the major breakthroughs or turning points?
• What will you do differently now?
• What do you know now that you did not know before?

GROW: Options

• What has worked in the past?
• What steps could you take?
• Would you like to brainstorm the elements you would like to see with me?
• What else could you do?
• If there were something else you could do, what would it be?
• Is there anything else?

GROW: Will

• What will you do about this?
• Can you commit to that?
• How will you do that?
• When will you do that?
• Who will you speak to?
• Where will you find that?

Closure

• What did I do well as your coach?
• What would you like to see more of?
• What would you like to see less of?
• What would you like me to have done differently?
• What tangible benefits did you get from the coaching in terms of money, position, relationships, etc?

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