Asking High Quality Questions

Useful Questions to Clarify Outcomes

• What do you really want in this situation?
• What is important about this outcome to you?
• What are all the ways you can go about getting what you want?
• Who/what can you use as resources to get what you want?
• Who do you know that has already achieved this outcome, and how did they do it? Is this outcome possible to achieve?
• Can the outcome be initiated and sustained by you?
• Is this outcome consistent with who you are?
• Considering what it will take and the possible consequences, is the outcome worth doing?

How to Elicit Values, Needs and Wants

• What is important about achieving this particular outcome?
• How will you know that you have achieved your outcome?
• What will you see, hear, feel or experience to know that you have achieved your outcome?
• If you get what you want, what will this do for you?

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