Coaching Conversation Preparation: Have you completed homework?

When I was considering establishing my coaching conversation, this thought appeared in my mind.

What precisely will be the starting point for the discussion?

I do not wish to refer the checklist and template 

I was searching for some guidance to establish the thinking process

• Can we start examining these components and compile the data points?
• I would prefer to record, note down all these points so that I do not miss any specific moment.
• I would like to maximize my support to the team member,
• I will work out with many open-ended powerful questions which provoke thought in the individual mind to share more stories and rich conversation
• I will consider this as a discovery process to go deep and identify more about the Individual whom I will be coaching

Below questions provoked me to prepare well:

1. What are the current Challenges the Individual is passing through?
2. What he/she is like to achieve?
3. What are their diverse goals? Growth plan? 
4. What he/she is going to do in the long run? 
5. Does he/she agree to share everything? If yes, are we as a coach granted to challenges the individual to know more and deeper?
6. Can Individual explain some stories related to the current situation? can he/she reflects and reveal more? 
7. When I as a coach asking questions, my particular curiosity is to identify better so that I can help that individual to perform better and satisfy the required goal
8. In the dialogue, does an individual realize what are the current issues? what are the alternatives individual has? 
9. We as coach by understanding the context can we offer alternatives? what are the possibilities?
10. Does the individual feel comfortable to describe those situations?
11. How can we as a coach establish the trust with the individual, so that whatever they are sharing it will not harm them?
12. Individual is in a comfort zone, how can he/she stretch themselves?
13. The coach needs to list down what coach has understood after the discussion. Is there any dependency on others? 
14. What is the willingness of the individual to change? How much he/she can stretch? if not, what are the constraints or barriers? what are the commitment may be small steps
15. I as a coach share many stories where I have observed the suggestion is working which perhaps individual can experiment with
16. The wording I as a coach use in the optimistic, positive and influencing.
17. I look into the plan the individual is preparing, the SMART approach has been reflected? Check for any vagueness, the plan has to be clear

So far working with me with all these approaches, I have equipped myself better to deal with any Individual coaching to help them to become better and better.