Response Options Builder

COACHING PRACTICE TOOLS

Optional client-owned prompts; use, adapt, reorder, or skip based on context.

Using This Optional Tool

This tool offers optional prompts to design a neutral response-options prompt that preserves an open response, uncertainty, and the client's ability to skip. Its fields are prompts, not findings, requirements, professional advice, or a complete model of the situation.

Use the client's own words. Separate direct observations and sources from interpretations, assumptions, predictions, and unknowns. Any field can be renamed, reordered, repeated, left blank, revisited, or discarded.

How to Use Response Options Builder

  1. Choose one relevant situation or question, or skip the tool.
  2. Use only the prompts that fit the client's goal, language, access needs, consent, privacy, and context.
  3. Record evidence, interpretations, and unknowns separately; no response proves a cause, trait, score, priority, or outcome.
  4. Keep any question, experiment, support, referral, action, or no action optional and client-owned.

Choice and Support Boundary

Optional coaching reflection, not therapy, diagnosis, medical care, a validated assessment, or business, financial, tax, accounting, investment, legal, employment, or relationship advice. Skip, adapt, or stop. Do not infer a cause, condition, trait, motive, truth, score, risk, priority, or required response from an answer, blank, label, difficulty, repetition, or estimate. Preserve privacy, consent, access, culture, power, context, and uncertainty; use qualified or emergency support for unsafe, severe, or out-of-scope concerns.

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Response Options Builder

Use any field in any order. Rename, repeat, skip, or stop.

Purpose and audience

What decision or reflection should this question support?

Neutral question

Write one question that does not imply a preferred answer.

Response option A

Use client-relevant, non-overlapping language.

Response option B

Use client-relevant, non-overlapping language.

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Response Options Builder continued

Use any field in any order. Rename, repeat, skip, or stop.

Response option C

Use client-relevant, non-overlapping language.

Open, unsure, or skip option

Always preserve a write-in, uncertainty, and no-answer path.

Check for leading language

What assumption, omission, or power dynamic should be corrected?

Optional debrief

Ask what informed the response; do not infer a trait or pattern.

Optional review

What is directly observed, what remains interpreted or unknown, and which optional question, support, referral, experiment, or no next step feels useful?

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