This chapter will enable you to explore the TEGROW model of coaching for performance and personal development. Once you understand how it works and what questions to reflect on, you will start being accountable to yourself, take action and move forward to achieve your goals.
GROW is a simple model that is widely used for goal setting and problem solving. It is an acronym that stands for goal, reality, options, and way forward. In his book, Coaching for Performance, Whitmore shares some of his most powerful questions that you can use with others, and with yourself. I have adapted it to be TEGROW as I feel the added few steps really power up the process.
So let's have a look at what TEGROW stands for and the questions that you can reflect upon. You could do this as a daily reflection and always use your self-coaching journal to track progress.
Now in a coaching relationship, your coach will hold you accountable. This is one of the most powerful behaviours in the relationship. Without a coach, you must be accountable to yourself. That is why it takes a self-leader to do self-coaching well. If you are not great at accountability, then consider telling others what you are doing, get an accountability partner, post it on social media, etc.
Top tip
The point is that when you tell someone else your plans, you are more likely to succeed.
"I believe that everyone can achieve their full potential if only they have the right environment and someone who believes in them a little more than they believe in themselves."
Lucy Barkas
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