Short-Term Coaching Goals

Client names a short-term goal quickly and confidently. The goal sounds reasonable — finish the project, have the conversation, improve the process. When asked why, they give a professional answer: it's important for the team, it's been on the list, it's what needs to happen next. The answer is not wrong but it is not theirs. The actual motivation is underneath — fear of what happens if they don't, desire to prove something, or genuine care about an outcome they have not named.

Frame this as separating goal from motivation. 'You've described what you want to do. Question 2 asks why — not the prof...