Using 'Scaling' with Clients

Below you will find an example of  'Scaling questions' and how you can use scaling to help clients get perspective on a current situation during a coaching/nlp session.

 

There are various ways, which you can use and adapt this question and here are a few quick examples.  (For 'visual' clients it may be useful to draw a scale on a piece of paper whilst asking these questions.) 

  

• On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest (where you want to be), where would you place yourself on the scale right now to reflect your position with current situation?

• What could you do today to move up the scale to the next number?

• Have you ever been higher on the scale? What were you doing different when you were higher up the scale?

• How did you know you were higher up the scale?

•  Have you ever been lower on the scale? What did you do to move yourself higher up the scale, to where you are now?

 

These simple and effective examples of 'Scaling questions' which work well for clients whislt they are grasping to understand their current situation and the options available them. You often find scaling questions useful during the 'discovery' stage of a coaching relationship along side the  'The Wheel of Life' exercise.