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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