grow model

THE G.R.O.W. MODEL
COACHING PRACTICE : EFFECTIVE QUESTIONS


GOAL 1. What do you want to achieve long term?
2. What does success look like?
3. What would be a milestone on the way?
4. When do you want to achieve it by?
5. How will you measure it?
6. When you reach this goal, what will be the benefit to you?
REALITY 7. What is happening now?
8. Who is involved (directly & indirectly)?
9. When things are going badly on this issue, what happens to you?
10. What is the effect on others?
11. What have you done about this so far?
12. What has stopped it from being effective?
13. What do you have that you’re not using?
14. What’s holding you back?
15. What is really going on? (Intuition)
OPTIONS 16. What options do you have?
17. What else could you do?
18. If someone came to you for advice, what would you tell them?
19. Think of a person you respect & regard. What would he/she do in your situation?
20. What are the benefits and costs of each option you now have?
WILL 21. Which option or options do you choose?
22. Set out an action plan.
23. When precisely are you going to start and finish each action step?
24. What could arise to hinder you in taking these steps?
25. What personal resistance do you have, if any, to taking these steps?
26. What will you do to eliminate these external and internal factors?
27. Who needs to know what your plans are?
28. What support do you need and from whom?
29. What will you do to obtain that support and when?
30. What could I do to support you?
31. What commitment on a 1-10 scale do you have to taking these agreed actions?
32. What prevents this from being a 10?
33. Is there anything else you want to talk about now or are we finished?





What would you like to have by the end of this series of questions?
What’s your long term goal?
What do you really want in this situation?
Would would be a realistic objective?


What’s happening right now in this situation?
What actions have you taken so far?
What do you control? What don’t you control?
What’s really going on in this situation?
If you looked through the eyes of someone else, how would they see the issue? How would they see you?
If you imagined this situation were here just for you to learn something, what would the learning be?


What options do you have in this situation?
What advice would you give a friend in the same situation?
Have you been in a similar situation before? If so, what did you learn? How did you resolve it?
What would be the easiest thing to do in this situation? The hardest?
What does the wisest part of you say you should do?
What would be a creative way of dealing with this situation?


If you look at all the options above, which is the one you’d most like to do?
Which of these options are you going to choose to do?
How committed are you 1 – 10?
If the answer isn’t 9 or 10, what would make it 9 or 10?
When are going to do it, be precise?