Providing feedback & coaching
Coach your people to grow your people
Coach your people to grow your people
5 minutes
The GROW model is a powerful coaching framework designed to help individuals navigate their journey towards achieving their goals. By breaking down the process into four key stages – Goal, Reality, Options, and Way forward – the GROW model provides a structured approach to coaching conversations, enabling individuals to explore their aspirations, assess their current reality, brainstorm potential actions, and commit to concrete steps forward.
Use each stage of the GROW model to structure your conversation and empower individuals to stretch beyond their limits and reach their highest aspirations.
Goal
Aim
• Establish what you want to achieve from the coaching session
• Agree on the topic of the coaching conversation
• Set some objectives together
• Agree on the topic of the coaching conversation
• Set some objectives together
Questions you might use
• Where do you want to be?
• What would you like to achieve from our coaching session?
• What would you like to happen that's not happening now?
• What does success look like?
• How will you know you've achieved it?
• What would you like to achieve from our coaching session?
• What would you like to happen that's not happening now?
• What does success look like?
• How will you know you've achieved it?
Reality
Aim
• Explore the current state of what is happening
• Establish what has been done so far
• Discuss examples to describe the situation clearly
• Establish what has been done so far
• Discuss examples to describe the situation clearly
Questions you might use
• What is happening right now?
• Where are you now?
• What are your major concerns?
• What is happening right now that you don’t want to happen?
• What have you tried to do to address the issue?
• What does the effect have?
• Where are you now?
• What are your major concerns?
• What is happening right now that you don’t want to happen?
• What have you tried to do to address the issue?
• What does the effect have?
Options
Aim
• Invite suggestions for possible courses of action
• Explore opportunities
• Consider obstacles
• Discuss examples of what has and hasn’t worked in the past
• Explore opportunities
• Consider obstacles
• Discuss examples of what has and hasn’t worked in the past
Questions you might use
• How do you think you can fix this?
• What needs to occur?
• What can you do to change the situation?
• What obstacles do you see?
• What alternatives are there?
• Brainstorm for action
• What needs to occur?
• What can you do to change the situation?
• What obstacles do you see?
• What alternatives are there?
• Brainstorm for action
Way forward
Aim
• Agree specific actions or goal, time frame and accountabilities
Questions you might use
• What are your next steps?
• What are you committed to doing between now and our next session?
• What support do you need?
• How will you know you have achieved your goal?
• What are you committed to doing between now and our next session?
• What support do you need?
• How will you know you have achieved your goal?
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