Upbuild Coaching Bits: Deeper Agenda

The Deeper Agenda is about connecting the client to what is important about the topic they have brought to the coaching conversation. It reveals the deeper motivations underneath the Presenting Agenda. When we connect a client to what matters, to what’s deeper than “the problem,” this builds energy, aliveness, and motivation. When the “WHY” is deeply understood, the “HOW” usually becomes clearer.  

Powerful questions to get to the Deeper Agenda:

• What’s important about this?

• What matters most about this?

• What about this has heart and meaning for you?

• What do you really want?

Coaching application: In your upcoming coaching sessions, ask “what’s important about that?” at least two times during each session. What do you notice happens in the coaching as a result of this question?  

Life application: In your conversations over the next week, listen for what is “underneath” what the other person is saying. What matters to them about what they are saying? What do they really want? Experiment with the question, “what’s important about that?” to help you figure that out. 

Relevant Upbuild content:

• [Article] The Oldest Profession in the World

• [Podcast] I Dislike In You What I Dislike in Me (Apple / Spotify)