Dr Shiny UnsalConsciousness Architect, ICF MCC, Distinguished Coach Educator, NLP Trainer, Academy Of Neuro-Shine Technology™ · Awaken to your power within. Align with your truth.

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2 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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In this instructional segment, Dr. Shiny Unsal emphasizes the importance of prioritization and clarification at the start of coaching sessions. She advises coaches to habitually ask a series of powerful, open‑ended questions that help clients identify what would move them forward, what they need clarity on, what is most pressing, what they are currently present to, and which agenda items are draining their energy. By surfacing these focal points, coaches can co‑create a clear priority list and a clarified focus for the session, enabling more effective progress. Dr. Unsal also notes that these questions rest on assumptions—such as the existence of energy‑draining issues—highlighting the need for coaches to be aware of underlying client dynamics while framing their inquiries.

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With everything that is going on in your life right now, what would move you forward if you clarified one of them? It's because it's prioritization and clarification. We all want that. We want clarity and then we want priority. So at the beginning of your sessions, if you have the habit of asking these type of questions, okay, we're gonna prioritize and then we're gonna clarify. So what do you need clarity about? What can we focus on that helps you today, right now? And some other question, the third alternative question that you can ask is obviously, what is pressing? What is pressing? Fourth one, what are you present to? Fifth one, what is an agenda that is draining your energy? Of course, these come with a ton of assumptions. We're assuming that there is something that they are draining, you know, their energy about. So all of those things is also allowing us to design the powerful questions around helping the client to get the clarity.