Powerful Questions for

Coaches & Leaders

11 Nov 2022

Powerful Questions For Coaches & Leaders

Imagine only being a few questions away from the clarity you, your clients,or team members need to get unstuck and move forward.

Is that even possible?

With our coaching clients and COSMO Advantage™ course participants, we have found that even just one of the 5 questions below (centered on our COSMO acronym) can serve as a game-changer for anyone. When individuals or teams are stuck, the reason likely exists within one of COSMO’s 5 categories: Clarity, Ownership, Structure, Momentum, or Outcomes.

Try using these 5 questions as a jump-start to craft other powerful coaching questions for clients or teams.

CLARITY: What needs clarifying?

OWNERSHIP: Where is there buy-in or resistance?

STRUCTURE: What plan needs to come together?

MOMENTUM: What’s working or not working?

OUTCOMES: What’s the vision or goal?

Feel free to use the 5 COSMO priorities or these 5 questions as a jump-start to craft your own powerful coaching questions for the people you are influencing.

The best questions:

– engage relationally and evoke thought

– contain 7-10 words…or less

Questions with few words are easiest for our brains to process; so they hold the potential for the greatest impact. Think about a person in your circle of influence who needs to get unstuck and move forward.

What’s one question they need to be asked?