Using the GROW sequence to achieve goals’
Featured in the The Coaching Skills Activity Pack training manual
By Tony Gillen
Category: Mentoring and Coaching
Credit price: 3 download credits (Single user)
This training activity explains the GROW sequence in detail and establishes it as a powerful way to work on achieving goals. It also introduces the concept of SMARTER goals and provides participants with the opportunity to practise coaching a colleague through the whole GROW sequence. One of the most difficult lessons for inexperienced coachers to learn is to trust the coaching process, and to follow the performers’ agenda rather than their own: this training activity provides practise in this skill.
You set the scene by stating that coaching is a method of bringing out the best in a performer without the coaches necessarily being a top performer themselves. You introduce the concept of SMARTER goals as the basis for effective coaching, and the GROW sequence as a structure to use when coaching. The participants then work in pairs to practise coaching a colleague through the GROW sequence. Finally, you lead a review of the exercise to enable participants to access the value of being coached in this way on a work-related issue.
Who is it for: This training resource is intended for use by trainers in order to enable participants to coach colleagues on work-related issues to achieve goals.
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 6 |
| Max Group Size: | 12 |
| Typical Duration: | 01:55:00 |
| No of Pages: | 20 |
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Purpose: This training resource is intended for use by trainers to with anyone who needs to learn coaching skills or who wants to become more effective in coaching others to achieve their goals. It is a powerful tool in a changing work environment, where the manager might not have experienced the problems or scenarios, which now confront their team members. It is useful, but not essential, for participants to have completed ‘Coaching in action’.
Download the training activity, Using the GROW sequence to achieve goals’ as featured in the Fenman training manual; The Coaching Skills Activity Pack