How to Coach Yourself and Others Techniques For Coaching | Page 36

Basic Questions for Coaching Basic questions  How are you doing right now … on a scale of 1 to 10?  Describe what a ten-point-level would look like.  If you were to go up by two points on the scale – how would things be different?  Which obstacles keep you from getting there today?  If you were to wake up one morning and those obstacles were no longer there, what would you think and do?  What is it that keeps your situation from being worse? Identifying goals  If you had already achieved what you wanted, what would it be like?  When do you want that to happen?  Is this really your own goal or is it someone else's? Motivational questions  What is it you will gain if you reach your goal?  What will you gain by not reaching your goal?  How would it feel to succeed?  How would it feel if you were not to reach your goal? Would it even be worth trying? Experience questions  Earlier in your life, have you been in a situation similar to the one you are in now? How did you solve it that time?  If somebody else with your experience had been in your shoes, what would you have told him or her? 344