The document lists effective coaching questions to help identify issues, understand perspectives and priorities, brainstorm solutions, set goals, and plan next steps. The questions probe what the issue is, its importance and ownership, what has and hasn't been tried, benefits of resolving it, obstacles, responsibilities, signs of progress, resources, actions, excuses, thoughts unsaid, and specifics on next actions.

1. Effective Coaching Questions
 What’s the issue?
 What makes this an issue now?
 Who owns this issue?
 On a scale of 1 – 10 how important is this issue?
 On a scale of 1 – 10 how much energy do you have to find a solution to this issue?
 What have you already tried?
 What haven’t you tried yet?
 Imagine it solved, what do you see / hear / feel?
 What’s standing in the way of an ideal outcome?
 What responsibility do you take for what’s been happening?
 What would be the early signs that things are getting better?
 Imagine yourself at your most resourceful. What would you say to yourself about
this issue?
 If I had a pill containing all the courage and insight that you need to resolve this
issue; what would you do after you’ve taken the pill?
 If you were not holding back, what would you do / say now?
 What question are you hoping that I do not ask you?
 If you knew that you could not possibly fail, what would you do next?
 What question shall I ask you next?
 What are you putting up with at the moment?
 If you do not take action on these points by the next time we meet, what excuses
will you give me?
 What are you thinking and not saying?
 What else? What else? What else?
 And if you did know, what would it be?
 When you have this ................ what will that get you?
 What’s the shift in you that you need to make to create the shift you want to see in
him / her / the team?
 What are we avoiding?
 What’s the bold thing to do?
 What’s the crazy thing to do?
 What’s the simplest thing to do?
 What action will you take next, and by when will you do it?