How committed are you to this action, on a scale of 1–10? This is not rating the certainty of the outcome actually happening. It is a rating of the coachee’s intention to carry out their part of the job. Completion of the task may depend on the agreement or the action of others, and that cannot be rated. • What prevents it from being a 10? Check the coachee’s motivation, and persist by asking a question such as: “If you have rated yourself at less than 8, how can you reduce the size of the task or lengthen the timescale to enable you to raise the rating to 8 or above?” If the rating is still
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