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Coaching for Performance - The GROW Coaching Model - Questions

These questions will help you get the most out of the GROW Coaching Model for coaching your people to higher performance.

GOAL Questions

  • What is the aim of this discussion?
  • What do you want to achieve long term?
  • What does success look like?
  • How much personal control or influence do you have over your goal?
  • What would be a milestone on the way?
  • By when do you want to achieve it?
  • Is that positive, challenging and attainable?
  • How will you measure it?

REALITY Questions

  • What is happening right now? Only focus on fact, what is really happening at the moment. (WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, HOW MUCH, HOW OFTEN)
  • Who is directly and indirectly involved?
  • Coaching for performance improvement
  • If things are not going well with this issue, who else gets drawn in?
  • If things are not going well, what happens to you?
  • What about others involved, what happens to them?
  • What have you done about this so far? With what results?
  • How often have you tried?
  • What is missing in this situation?
  • What is holding you back from finding a way forward?
  • Intuitively, what is really going on here?

OPTIONS Questions

  • What options do you have for steps to resolve this issue?
  • What else might you do?
  • What would someone who handles this kind of issue really do well?
  • What if you had more time for this issue, what might you try?
  • What if you had less time? What might that force you to try?
  • Imagine that you had more energy and confidence, what could you try then?
  • What if somebody said: "Money no object"? What might you try then?
  • If you had total power, what might you try then?
  • What if you could start again?
  • If the constraints you identified earlier were removed - what could you do then?
  • What should you do?
  • Would you like another suggestion?
  • What are the costs and benefits of each of these ideas?

Wrap-Up Questions

  • What option or options do you choose?
  • To what extent does this meet all of your objectives?
  • What are your criteria and measurements for success?
  • When, precisely, will you start and finish each action step?
  • What could hinder you taking these steps?
  • What personal resistance do you have to taking these steps?
  • What will you do to eliminate these external and internal factors?
  • Who needs to know what your plans are?
  • What support do you need, and from whom?
  • What could I do to support you?
  • What commitment, on a 1 - 10 scale do you have to taking these agreed actions?
  • What prevents this from being a 10?
  • What could you do to alter or raise your commitment closer to 10?

Used with the GROW Coaching Model for coaching your people to higher performance.

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