The following are some general coaching questions to be asked that are related specifically to the content of this series of two essays:
What is your strongest color/preference? [E/S] [I/H]
What is your weakest color/preference? [E/H] [I/S]
When and under what circumstances do your preferences change? [E/H] [I/S]
What is the most important strength for you associated with your strongest preference? When are you at your best? [E/S] [I/H]
What is your strongest color/preference when you confront opposition? What does this color look like when you engage it? [E/H] [I/S]
What is your next strongest color and your weakest color when you confront opposition? When, if ever, do you engage these colors—perhaps in your childhood? [E/H] [I/S]
When do your major strength(s) get you in trouble—and what kind of trouble do you get into? [E/S] [I/H]
The following are several sets of more specific probing questions to be posed regarding two of the three domains:
The Domain of intentions [Desired State]
How would you know if you have been successful in this endeavor? [E/S] [I/H]
What would make you happy? [E/H] [I/S]
Who else has an investment in this project, and what do they want to happen? [E/H] I/S]
What would happen if you did not achieve this goal? [E/H] [I/S]
What would happen if you achieved this goal? [E/S] [I/H]
What scares you most about not achieving this goal? [E/H] [I/S]
The Domain of information [Current State]
What are the most salient facts regarding the circumstances in which you now find yourself? [E/S] [I/S]
What are the “facts” about which you are most uncertain at present? How could you check on the validity of these facts? [E/H] [I/S]
What are alternative ways in which you could interpret the meaning or implications of the facts that you do believe to be valid? [E/H] [I/S]
