Questions regarding values:
What did you realize about your priorities at this time in your life?
Do you think you have changed over time?
Is your current job/position meeting your values requirements?
What matters to you?
When did you feel you were making an important contribution?
What questions could you ask in an interview to see if your values will be met?
Questions regarding skills:
What did you learn about your skills as you completed this exercise?
Were there any surprises?
Is your current job/position utilizing your skills?
Can you imagine what kinds of careers might utilize your “Highest” skills?
What are you doing when you are having a “flow” experience?
Questions regarding interests:
Looking at your “Highest” careers one at a time, tell me what interested you about each career?
Reading the description of your “Highest” careers, what experiences in your life come to mind? Can you think of enjoyable experiences you have had that are similar to the career requirements?
Are there careers in your “Moderate” category that have elements that appeal to you? What are they?
Are you worried that some of your selections are not realistic? What are your concerns? How could you overcome some of those obstacles?
What are the key elements or patterns in your “Highest” career selections? What other career might have those characteristics?
How might you develop a list of additional careers that meet the general criteria we have discussed?
What might stop you from pursuing your “Highest” career selections?
How can we work together to achieve your goals?
Questions to ask regarding personality:
Did you feel torn between two or more of the personality types?
Do you feel you are different when you are at work verses home?
Which one describes you most consistently since your childhood?
Do you wish you were more like one of the other personalities? What messages have you gotten from your parents/supervisors that are contributing to your desire to be different?
What careers can you imagine that would utilize your natural personality characteristics?
Questions to facilitate change:
What does your most successful future look like?
How have you solved past problems?
What is different about the time when you enjoyed your work?
How, exactly, would you like things to be different?
If I were you 2 years from now, how would we know everything worked out?
What would be the very first sign that things are on the right tract?
What would your hero do?
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