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Business Support for Co-ops – peer mentor handbook

20 key questions

Here are 20 key questions that maybe useful to ask in your meetings with your mentee group:

  1. “What will give you the most value from today’s session?”
  2. “What do you want to focus on today?”
  3. “What is keeping you awake at night?”
  4. “What is the present situation in detail?”
  5. “What is happening now that is working well?”
  6. “What is happening now that tells you that you have a problem?”
  7. “What do you have control over?”
  8. “What strengths and resources do you bring to this?”
  9. “Where do you want to be a year from now? How will you measure your success?”
  10. “If you had to find a way, what would it be?”
  11. “What do you not know about this situation/project? How could you find out?”
  12. “If you improved one thing you do, what change would make the biggest improvement to your business’s performance?”
  13. “What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?”
  14. “What do you enjoy about what you do?”
  15. “What might you be overlooking?”
  16. “Who else has done this before?”
  17. “What have you learned from this?”
  18. “What can you do differently next time?”
  19. “What did you do well?”
  20. “What will you do next?”