THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE WFO QUESTIONS

Recently two different Meta-Coaches asked me about materials regarding the psychology behind the well-formed outcome questions. At first I thought that I had written about them somewhere, but as I contemplated where and when would I have done that, I realized that I had not. So, here goes!

While the questions themselves are all focused on a goal— an outcome of an individual or a group, there is a psychology behind each of the questions. To learn the 18 questions— here are 7 categories that help to classify the different questions and by which you can see how they work together to enable a client to create a well-designed goal. These seven categories inform the psychology of goal- setting. Namely:

To set a goal in an intelligent way— establish the subject, identify the context, identify the actions that have to be done, check that the goal is within the control of the person, if getting to the goal involves multiple actions, create a plan for reach it, identify anything that will interfere with that process by making sure you have the resources to succeed, then get a commitment to the goal.