List of powerfull questions for teams

maybe this list can be a starting template…
Questions classified to topics/situations:

DISCOVERY QUESTIONS

Assumptions
 What assumptions do you hold about the team?
 What would the situation be like if your assumptions were not true?
 What assumptions do you hold about the project’s success?
 Given the current situation, what assumptions might develop that would get in the way of success?

Situations
 What is the situation?
 Who is impacted by this situation?
 Who is not impacted by this situation?
 What is important in this situation?
 What are the challenges that exist because of this situation?
 You are not sure you understand?

Sharing Feelings & Implications
 What issues concern you?
 What can we do to build trust in this situation?
 What are you afraid might happen?
 What are your other feared implications?
 How does that make you feel?
 How is that impacting you?
 What feeling can you share that will help us understand your perspective?

Sharing Facts & Experiences
 What is your experience with this?
 What are the facts as you see them?
 What were the circumstances that took you down that path?
 What situation influenced your thinking?
 Have you had any other experiences that differ?
 What led you to this belief?

Idea Explorations
 What is your idea?
 What’s your thinking behind this idea?
 What is the problem this idea addresses?
 How important is this idea to you?
 What led you to this idea?
 How attached are you to this idea?

Desire Explorations
 How would you describe success in this situation?
 How can we guide this situation to a new or positive outcome?
 In the best of all possible worlds, what is our desired outcome?
 What is our greatest desire?
 What would give us the feeling we were successful?

INNOVATION QUESTIONS

Insight Building
 What can we do to combine the best of our thinking?
 What can we do to arrive at the best outcome?
 What can we do to merge our ideas?
 What can we do to build common ground in this situation?
 What can we do to get the best result?
 What can we do to build on other’s ideas?

Possibilities
 What if we could wish for the impossible, what would we want?
 If we had unlimited resources, what would we do?
 What if the opposite were true?
 If money were no problem, what would we do?
 What if we had everyone supporting us, what would we do?
 What if we could implement any solution, what would we go for?
 What if we were to have no limitations, what would we do?

Perspective Shifting
 What would a significant breakthrough look like?
 If we were someone else, what would we do?
 If we started backwards, what would we do?
 How would our customers see this?
 What if our assumptions were not true?
 What if the opposite were true?
 What other alternatives would work?
 If we had no vested interest in this, how would you look at it?

Thought Provoking
 Who can you ask a question to move this situation along?
 What questions would guide this situation to a positive outcome?
 In the best of all possible worlds, what do you want to happen?
 What is your desired outcome?
 What do we want to create?
 What ideas could we merge to move the situation along?

Idea Developments
 What don’t we know?
 Where is this idea taking us?
 What will activate this opportunity?
 What intrigues us about this idea?
 How can we broaden our perspective?
 How can we build on this?
 What’s another side we haven’t yet considered?
 If there were no obstacles, what would you want to happen?