111 Coaching Questions – The BEST Coaching Questions To Ask
Looking for the best coaching questions? Here are the 111 best coaching questions to ask your clients or yourself.
Let’s chat about coaching questions.
If you are a coach or simply someone searching for a list of best coaching questions to ask, you are in exactly the right place.
Rushing through this list of coaching questions, I encourage you to take your time.
Ponder on each question one by one.
Ask yourself: what is the right answer to this question?
What is my gut intuition telling me is the truth?
Are you ready?
It’s time to dig in…
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1 – What’s stopping you from taking action or standing in your way?
2 – What would you like to achieve by the end of this day/week/session?
3 – What will happen if you don’t take this step?
4 – What’s missing in your life right now?
5 – If you could change just ONE thing right now, what would it be?
6 – What is your WHY?
7 – What are you most proud of?
8 – What tools do you need to help you?
9 – What do you want?
10 – What is your intuition/gut feeling telling you to do?
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11 – How will you specifically know when you’ve completed your action/task/step/goal?
12 – What have you done to try to solve the problem?
13 – What are you doing to NOT achieve your goal?
14 – Who else is this hurting?
15 – If your main obstacle didn’t exist, how would your life look?
16 – Where will you be in 3 months from now if this problem isn’t addressed?
17 – Is that a story or the truth?
18 – What do you think could be done to alter the situation?
19 – What is the first and easiest step you could take right now?
20 – What do you need most right now?
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21 – How does that serve you?
22 – What resources do you have access to?
23 – What will things look like after you’ve been successful?
24 – What’s the downside of your goal or dream?
25 – What obstacles do you expect to face? How do you plan to approach them?
26 – How will you celebrate that?
27 – What is the most important thing in the world to you and why?
28 – What’s important about that to you?
29 – So what? What is the worst thing that could possibly happen and could you cope with it?
30 – Are you focused on what’s wrong or what’s right?
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31 – What might keep you from getting where you want to go?
32 – What can you accomplish that doesn’t depend on others?
33 – What did you learn?
34 – If a friend were in your shoes, what advice would you give them?
35 – What would you like to do as a result of being here?
36 – How can you turn this around and have better results next time?
37 – Will this choice move you forward or keep you stuck?
38 – Why not? Why can’t you do that? Why shouldn’t you do that?
39 – Does this story empower or disempower you?
40 – Is this giving you energy or draining your energy?
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41 – What are you willing to do to improve your situation?
42 – How long have you been thinking about this?
43 – What do you NOT want me to ask you?
44 – If you have rules that you follow, who made up those rules?
45 – Who do you need to become to succeed?
46 – Are you part of the problem or part of the solution?
47 – Would taking a risk help you become unstuck?
48 – How can you solve a problem so that it never comes back?
49 – How can you learn from this problem so it never happens again?
50 – What is a solution that you have heard of but haven’t yet tried for yourself?
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51 – Have you ever experienced anything like this before?
52 – What’s wrong with how you are right now?
53 – What’s perfectly fine with you right now?
54 – If you say yes to this, what must you say no to?
55 – Are you crystal clear on what you want?
56 – How can you create more value with less effort?
57 – What is the outcome you are looking to achieve?
58 – Are there any steps you could take right away that would significantly improve your situation?
59 – If you approached this goal with less fear and more courage how would your life change?
60 – Who is adding value to your life right now?
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61 – Are you using this information to grow or beat yourself up over?
62 – What’s the biggest issue on your mind today or this week?
63 – What are the biggest issues you face on a daily basis?
64 – What will really make the biggest difference here?
65 – Can you tell me more?
66 – What’s the real challenge here for you?
67 – What are you doing now to address these challenges?
68 – What do you think you should do first?
69 – What have you tried so far?
70 – Is it a need or a want?
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71 – What are you pretending not to know?
72 – Who do you know personally who has overcome the challenge that you are currently having?
73 – Have you ever successfully solved a problem like this before?
74 – What will you have to give up in order to make room for your goals?
75 – What would you do if you had unlimited resources?
76 – What is most useful or valuable for you now?
77 – If you did know what to do what would the answer be?
78 – How can you create more value with less effort?
79 – How can you enjoy the process more?
80 – Why are you procrastinating?
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81 – What are you avoiding?
82 – What is standing between you and your goals?
83 – What is your priority?
84 – What are you willing to endure to see your goal become a reality?
85 – What are the possibilities?
86 – How do you know when you’re really motivated?
87 – Is there anything preventing you from taking action?
88 – Why must you achieve this goal?
89 – Why do you think this is happening?
90 – Are there any important questions that have not been asked?
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91 – What are you willing to commit to doing or changing?
92 – What will happen if you don’t fix this problem now?
93 – How are you sabotaging yourself?
94 – Why do you believe you are stuck?
95 – Who wouldn’t like it if you succeeded?
96 – What is the permanent solution?
97 – On a scale of 1 to 10, how motivated are you to achieving your goals?
98 – What would you like to do differently?
99 – How can you do this more effectively?
100 – What action would you take if you trusted yourself more?
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101 – What’s working well for you right now?
102 – What ISN’T working well for you right now?
103 – What is your most urgent problem?
104 – How much is enough?
105 – What is the real issue?
106 – Where are you at right now?
107 – Is your goal designed to gain pleasure or to avoid pain?
108 – What would work best for you?
109 – What are you not facing up to?
110 – How could you simplify that?
111 – What is your prediction?
Best of luck with using these coaching questions to deepen your understanding of yourself.
But remember – these questions are only valuable if you actually ANSWER THEM.
Much love,
Frances Vidakovic xx
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I’m Frances Vidakovic – a mindset & action coach for quietly ambitious women who want to stop overthinking and finally take aligned action. I help women achieve their goals and follow through on what matters, without sacrificing their sanity or soul.