Motivation Questions2

As a coach, asking the right questions can help people reconnect with their motivation. During the pandemic, people have lost sight of their goals and focused on taking care of their families. When asking questions, it's important to ask simple ones like what motivates them and what they would love to do more of. Traditional questions like where they see themselves in five years may not be effective. It's also helpful to ask about their current state and what they love, like, and dislike about their job. Understanding their ideal destination and listening carefully will allow you to coach them effectively. Asking about their current state and ideal state can provide insight into their desires and help determine how to support them. Questions are just critical, not only for yourself to understand as a coach, yet the questions can trigger for people to revisit, reconnect with their motivation. Now, since the pandemic, there's no doubt people have lost sight of themselves and careers because people were worried about taking care of their kids and family. We tend to go from this offensive mode to this defensive mode. Number two, when asking questions, ask people simple questions such as, what motivates you? What's your end game? I try to stay away from traditional questions such as, where do you see yourself in five years? Ask questions like, what would you love to be doing more of? What would you like to be doing more of? What do you dislike about what you're currently doing? What would you like to have taken off your plate? I call that the love, like, dislike questioning sequence. Now, I also like to ask questions about their current state. What do you love about what you're currently doing, like about your current job? What do you dislike? And you'll start to get a feel if they're intrinsic or extrinsic. What's your ideal destination? If someone says, I don't know, I know I want to do something different down the road, is much different than someone saying, honestly, I love what I'm currently doing. And that might not be a person that you want to disrupt too much with, let's do something different. Those questions will serve you well. Love, like, dislike, from the current status to the ideal status. And then you have to really listen, and that will create a framework of what you can do to coach that person. Now, the other thing that you can do, and we'll talk about this in the activity section, is to ask questions around the current state, how they see themselves, where they're currently at, and then the ideal state. And the ideal state is, what would you be doing? What would you love to be doing? What would you like to be doing? What would you like to take off your plate as it relates to your current job? And that will give you a really good understanding of where they want to go and potentially the mechanism of getting there.