Below are a few questions to help you decide on the vision you want for your life.
What did you want to do when were in first grade?
What activity to you love engaging in? Would you pursue this activity even if you never got paid for it?
If you had all the money in the world, what would you do with your life?
What would make your life just amazing?
What is the difference between a vision and a mission statement? (View sample vision.)
Questions are key to successful coaching. The greatest questions can motivate you, inspire you, incite you to action, change your perspective and on and on and on.
We invite you to list the most powerful question(s) you have ever read, been asked or asked others.
More questioning resources:
Free class: Coaching Your Client: Questioning
Below are your notes and audio for a class from the Become a Certified Coach program.
Please note that the audio is not just a recitation of the notes. New information is presented.
This should help you gain an idea as to whether or not this program is right for you and if you like the instructor.
Class Information
Program: Become a Certified Coach (audio for the live version, notes for both the self study and live version)
Instructor: Mackenzie Pearce
Class title: Coaching Question Module
Notes: Coaching Questions Module
Audio: MP3
More questioning resources:
Student Interaction Center: Powerful Coaching Questions
Below are some questions you may find useful when coaching your clients.
1. What do you fear most? Has this prevented you from moving forward?
2. What possibilities do we have (to attain this goal or overcome this road block)?
3. How do we go about that?
4. Right now, how am I being the person I want to be?
5. How can I serve? What can I give?
6. What do I want more of?
7. Is my mindset helping or hindering me?
8. What mindset do I need to be the successful person I know I am?
9. Am I taking 100% responsibility for my life?
10. If I know I could not fail, what would I do?
11. What have I accomplished in my life so far?
12: What if you awoke tomorrow and discovered the problem was solved? What would be the first thing you would notice?
More questioning resources:
Student Interaction Center: Powerful Coaching Questions
Free class: Coaching Your Client: Questioning
Below are questions that I almost always ask anyone I am coaching. Sometimes I ask these questions in the welcome packet, sometimes when we are goal setting. Either way I thought you may find them useful.
What can I do to most impact your life in the next 30 days?
What change would make the biggest difference in your life?
What are your strengths?
What have you always wanted to accomplish but have never been able to?
What does your ideal life look like?
When you were in elementary school, what did you want to be when you grew up?
What are 10 things or activities that make you smile?
When do you feel most at peace?
What do you want more of in life?
What is your life could be easier? What would that look like to you?
How close do you feel to God?
Do you have a personal mission statement?
Repeated Goal Attainment = Successful Life Change
The long and the short of it is that goal attainment is fundamental to changing lives. Whether this is a large goal your client is pursuing or a seemingly small goal there are some steps you can take to help ensure they get there.
Actions Completed Weekly = Goal
Successfully completing manageable actions weekly will eventually lead to successful goal attainment. Actions are essentially anything that will move your client closer to living the best life they can. These actions can include tasks, accessing resources, brainstorming, mind mapping, increasing self worth or working to create a successful shift in thinking (how to do all of which are covered through your classes).
Although the details of this process is covered more thoroughly during your classes, below are some questions you should have answers to prior to ending a coaching session:
Good luck, and good coaching!
As a coach there are quite a few questions that have the potential to motivate and impact a clients life.
Here are two of my favorites.
These questions are more practical in nature yet are very effective in helping start the process of change.
Question #1:
Question 2 is very similar in purpose:
The main purpose of these particular questions is to incite your clients to action.
The Coach’s Questions Module covers questions that can be used in every possible scenario your client can encounter. Talk about helpful!
Although the questions you ask your clients are certainly decided on a case by case basis, here are some truly important questions you should be sure to ask:
What are the two most important questions you can ask a client?
Download and listen in to learn!
You do not need to be perfect to be a coach. You do need to practice what you preach on a daily basis though. You may want to start by answering these questions:
What habits are not working for you anymore?
What new habits can you replace them with?
What areas do you need to improve on in regards to developing your business?
In what ways can you better serve your clients?
What new skills would your business benefit from you learning? (Ask your mentor if they have any resources on this topics!)
What do you want your life to look like in 1 year from now?
What are your strengths and how are you utilizing them?
What are your weaknesses and how are you compensating for them?
Do you have clear business goals (PPS!)?
