Thursday’s Coach

You may have wanted to hire a coach to move your progress along faster for years. Something’s made you pause. So, if you’re not ready to go that route, how about doing it yourself? Take the mystery out of this process and see what it’s all about. The goal is simple, you want to do better in every way than you did last week. That doesn’t mean that last week was a bust, just that steady growth each week is naturally your goal. So, what will make this next week different for you? In the next few weeks, I’m going to help you explore some of the most popular coaching models that are used to help clients get to the next level. There are no rules that you can’t use these tried and true methods to move the needle for your own work, just some challenges in doing it yourself. So, here you go with your first model…

The GROW Model

This is one of the gold standards for coaching. GROW is an acronym for G-oals, R-eality, O-ptions, and W-ill and it adapts to a self-coaching model extremely well. Sir John Whitmore, one of the coaching greats developed this model about 40 years ago. His famous statement is one for the ages, “We must see people in terms of their future potential, not their past performance.” If you turn this inward, you suddenly get the statement that you must see yourself in terms of your future potential, not your past performance. Knowing it is good, your using it is great.