Thank you for your interest in discussing the possibility of a business coaching relationship with Forrest Consulting!
Your response to this questionnaire will help guide our conversation and help us consider how Strategic Business Leader coaching can help you achieve greater success. Be assured that we will not share your replies with others and will respect your privacy.
Lee Crumbaugh
Forrest Consulting
Business name:
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1. Please describe your current business:
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2. Business type:
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If "other," please identify type:
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3. If we were to enter into a coaching relationship, what is the key outcome you would like to achieve from this coaching? (Think big!)
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4. Please describe your vision of great business success? If you were to be wildly successful over the next five years, what would that look like?
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5. What do you think are the three greatest obstacles or hurdles in the way of achieving your vision of great success?
Obstacle 1:
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Obstacle 2:
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Obstacle 3:
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6. What three goals do you want to achieve within the next 12 months?
12-month goal 1:
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12-month goal 2:
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12-month goal 3:
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7. What three goals do you want to achieve in the next three months?
3-month goal 1:
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3-month goal 2:
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3-month goal 3:
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8. If we were to enter into a coaching relationship, what would you like from your coach during your sessions? Please check all that are important to you.
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9. A coach can help you develop and apply knowledge and skills in many areas that relate to business success. Listed below are important areas in which we have expertise or for which we can tap the expertise of our partners. Please check all that important to you.
Note that we are asking you to identify what is important among these topics because an effective coaching relationship prioritizes what is addressed at any one point in time. Gaining and applying knowledge and skills in one area may then enable you to gain and apply skills in another area. As time passes, some lesser ranked knowledge and skills areas will likely become more important to your greater success. Please recognize that we have or can access other relevant skills and knowledge not on the list.
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10. What are your strengths and greatest attributes?
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11. What are your greatest weaknesses and deficits?
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12. What repeating patterns/habits in your life that impede greater business success would you would like to change (if any)?
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13. What would you like your coach to do if you struggle with your goals?
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14. What approaches motivate / demotivate you?
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15. How will you know when you are receiving value from the coaching process?
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16. What else should we know about you?
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Thank you for completing our business coaching questionnaire! We look forward to meeting with you to discuss your coaching needs and opportunities and our coaching service and options.
Lee Crumbaugh
Forrest Consulting
