Q&A Worksheet
with Answer
Choices

COACHING PRACTICE TOOLS

A customizable template for building multiple-choice
coaching questions with structured response options.

About This Template

Open-ended questions produce open-ended responses. That is often exactly right. But there are contexts in coaching where bounding the response space is more useful - where asking a client to choose from defined options produces clarity that an open question would not.

Multiple-choice formats work well for: surfacing habitual patterns (which option does the client always pick?), distinguishing between values that all sound appealing in the abstract, calibrating confidence or readiness on a specific dimension, and building self-awareness by comparing responses over time.

This template provides the structure. You supply the questions and options that fit your client and the current work.

How to Use This Template

  1. Write questions that have genuinely different answers. If all three options point toward the same conclusion, the question is not doing work. Write options that represent meaningfully different positions, perspectives, or behaviors.
  2. Use the question lines for the prompt and the answer lines for the options. Leave the checkbox unselected until the client completes the worksheet.
  3. Consider using this format for pre-session preparation. Clients who arrive having already reflected on structured questions tend to move into the session material faster.
  4. After the client responds, focus on the reasoning, not just the selection. Why they chose what they chose is usually more informative than which option they picked.
  5. Print multiple copies. The same template can be used for different questions across different sessions.
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Q&A Worksheet

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Question 2
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