Outcome Thinking with SOCRATES Purpose: To provide an easy-to-
remember summary of the key criteria and questions to help you
develop a really “Well-Formed Outcome”. Using this model will
significantly increase personal achievement over time and can
also increase the immediate effectiveness of all your
activities, for example, in meetings, negotiations and personal
coaching sessions. |S||Specify your goal||What is the specific
goal you really want to achieve? Is it stated in positive
language? If “Moving Away From” the Present State, what do you
want instead of the problem? |O||Own it||Is it within your
control to make happen? If not, what can you bring within
control? |C||Check your evidence for having achieved it||Step
into it – ‘As if’ it is already achieved. Allow it to become
fully associated in your mind: What are you seeing? What are you
hearing? What are you feeling? What are you thinking?
|R||Remember how you’ve achieved this particular goal||Looking
back, how have you done this? What skills and resou