Core Beliefs Inventory

Identify the hidden beliefs driving behavior that conflicts with your intentions, using a structured, evidence-based inventory coaches rely on.

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When to Use This Tool

Client's behavior is inconsistent with their stated intentions and they cannot identify why

Client has beliefs about their own capabilities or worthiness that are operating below conscious awareness

Client wants to understand the underlying assumptions that are shaping their choices

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This inventory examines beliefs across six domains - capabilities, worthiness, o...

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Tool Classification

Domain

Life Coaching

Type

Assessment

Phase

Discovery Reflection

Details

30 min Between sessions As-needed

Topics

Mindset Identity Values

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Coaching Scenarios Plus

1 Leader whose behavior is inconsistent across domains in ways she can't explain

Context

A VP of Marketing is described by her team as decisive and confident in brand and creative decisions, and as hesitant and deferential in cross-functional leadership and budget negotiations. She experiences the inconsistency but attributes it to domain expertise — she 'knows' brand and doesn't 'know' finance and operations. Her coach suspects the inconsistency is belief-driven rather than knowledge-driven: her confidence in one domain and her deference in the other are operating on different underlying beliefs about her authority.

How to Introduce

Frame this as a mapping exercise before a diagnosis. 'You've described yourself as confident in some settings and hesita...

2 Executive about to take on a significantly larger scope who needs a realistic self-assessment 🔒

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3 coaching scenarios with introduction language, observation guides, debrief maps, and red flags

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