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2) What is the Actual Condition now?

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3) What Obstacles do you think are preventing you from reaching the target condition?

Which *one* are you addressing now?

4) What is your Next Step? (Next experiment) What do you expect?

5) How quickly can we go and see what weHave Learned from taking that step?

The Five Questions

*Youʼll often work on the same obstacle with several experiments

1) What is the Target Condition?

2) What is the Actual Condition now?

--------(Turn Card Over)--------------------->

3) What Obstacles do you think are preventing you from reaching the target condition?

Which *one* are you addressing now?

4) What is your Next Step? (Next experiment) What do you expect?

5) How quickly can we go and see what weHave Learned from taking that step?

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2) What is the Actual Condition now?

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5) How quickly can we go and see what weHave Learned from taking that step?

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2) What is the Actual Condition now?

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2) What did you Expect?

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4) What did you Learn?

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2) What did you Expect?

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A COACHING CYCLE SHOULD LEADTO SOME KIND OF EXPERIMENT

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