Coaching Questions - from 4 perspectives and in 4 Dimensions.

If you need to explore a situation or issue in life or work, why not try looking at it from the following perspectives?





• What do you believe about the current situation or issue? ( assumptions, ideas and intuitions)

• What do you feel about the current situation or issue? (think in terms of specific emotions - despair, anxiety, joy, optimism, enthusiastic- etc)

• What do you know about the current situation or issue? (tangibles, details, facts and figures)

• What have you done about the current situation or issue? ( actions taken, results, consequences-etc)

Then explore your future objectives from the following 4 perspectives:

• What do you need to believe about the current situation or issue that is different from what you believe now?

• What do you need to feel about the current situation or issue that is different from what you feel now?

• What do you need to know about the current situation or issue that is different from what you know now?

• What do you need to do about the current situation or issue that is different from what you've done so far?


Now think in terms of the 4 dimensions:

What are the obstacles in the way of where you are now and where you need to be?

1- Physical obstacles – Behaviour, environments, systems and processes.

2- Emotional obstacles - EQ, States of mind, emotions imagined and real.

3- Intellectual obstacles – Thinking styles and types. Multiple Intelligences and individual cognitive strengths.

4- Motivational obstacles – Values, Ideas, Beliefs and Experiences. Shared culture.


Once you've identified the obstacles you can begin thinking about what action you can take.

What is possible now?

What seems impossible? Why?

What is possible in the near future?

What seems impossible in the near future? Why?


Keep chipping away at the obstacles until you discover which dimensions need to be addressed and in what order.

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