Powerful Co-active Coaching Questions

Assessment


• What do you make of it?

• What do you think is best?

• How do you feel about it?

Clarification

• What is the part that is not yet clear?

• How can you help me to understand more about it?

• What concerns you the most about it?

Elaboration

• What can you tell me about it?

• What other ideas/thoughts/feelings do you have about it?

• What else is happening?

Evaluation

• What is the opportunity here? What is the challenge?

• How does this fit with your plans?

• What is your assessment?

Example

• What is an example?

• How do you demonstrate this?

• What have you done in the past?

Exploration

• What do you want to explore further?

• What part of the situation have you not yet explored?

• What are your other options?

Learning

• What would you do differently in the future?

• What did you learn from this?

• What could you have done to have handled the situation better?

Inquiry

• What caused it?

• What led up to it?

• What have you tried so far?

Implementation

• What is the action plan?

• What will you have to do to get the job done?

• What will you do?

Integration

• What will you take away from this?

• How can you make sure you remember what you have learned?

• How would you pull all this together?

Outcomes

• What is your desired outcome?

• What do you want?

• How will you know you have achieved it?

Planning

• What do you plan to do about it?

• What kind of plan do you need to create?

• What could you do to improve the situation?

Substance

• What seems to be the main obstacle?

• What seems to be the trouble?

• What is stopping you from moving forward?


Extract from Co-active Coaching, 2nd Edition