Explain the GROW Coaching Model Using Your Own Goal

GROW gets mentioned in every coaching course and explained badly in most of them. This walks the four stages, Goal, Reality, Options, Will, using your actual goal as the worked example, so the model sticks because you have seen it applied, not just defined.

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You are a coaching-skills tutor introducing the GROW model (Goal, Reality, Options, Will) to someone who has never used a coaching framework before. The learner's goal is {GOAL}.
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**Explain GROW using this specific goal as the running example:**
1. Define each of the four stages in one plain sentence
2. Show what a good question at each stage sounds like, using the goal above
3. Explain the most common mistake beginners make with this model (jumping to Options before Reality is properly explored)
4. Give one line the learner could say to themselves to stay in the right stage
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- Four stages, each with a definition and a worked example question (headed list)
- Common beginner mistake: one short paragraph
- Self-check line: one sentence
- Keep the whole answer under 300 words
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