Good GROW model questions

Good GROW Questions( Grow, Reality, Options, Way Forward ).

Here are some questions to get you started, adapted from Sir John Whitmore's book, Coaching for Performance:

Goal (for both the session and the person's short and long-term goals)

1. What do you want to achieve?
2. What is your ultimate, long-term goal?
3. What is important to you now?
4. What would you like to get out of the next 60 minutes?
5. On what areas or issue do you want to work?
6. Describe your perfect world.
7. What would you like to have as a result of this coaching session?
8. What steps can you identify that will be essential to achieving your long-term goal?
9. What will make you feel this time has been well spent?
10. How will you know when you have achieved your goal?

Reality

1. Where are you now with your goal?
2. On a scale of 1 to 10 where are you?
3. What has contributed to your success so far?
4. What skills, knowledge and attributes do you have?
5. What progress have you made so far?
6. Does this goal conflict with anything else you are doing?
7. What is working well?
8. What is required of you?
9. What can you control?
10. What deadlines do you have?

Options

1. What are your options?
2. How have you tackled this or a similar situation in the past?
3. What could you do differently?
4. Who else has encountered a similar situation?
5. Which option feels right to you?
6. If anything was possible what would you do?
7. What could you do if you had more time, money, freedom?
8. If this constraint was removed, would it change things?
9. What do you need to stop doing to achieve this goal?
10. What obstacles stand in your way?

Way Forward

1. Which option works best for you?
2. What is your next step? Write it down.
3. What actions will you take?
4. When are you going to start?
5. How will you make sure that you do it?
6. Who will help and support you? When?
7. How will you know you have been successful?
8. On a scale of 1 to 10 how committed are you to taking the agreed actions?
9. What will you do to get this closer to a 10?
10. When shall we meet again to check progress?