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Welcome to today's session of #HRwithEM, a weekly #TwitterSession #TweetChat to connect, learn and share career development tips, employee experience practices, as well as resolve burning #HR issues and/or questions.

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Thank you for joining us this evening.

Please identify yourself and the location you are joining from, so we can acknowledge you properly.

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Feel free to tweet your question(s) at me with the hashtag #HRwithEM as the session is going on, and I would respond to all at the end of the session.

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Don’t forget to RETWEET all tweets for the benefit of your audience in order to extend this #KnowledgeSharingSession.

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Today's #TwitterSession would focus "Self-Coaching".

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Almost on a daily basis, I am contacted by young professionals who want to grow in their career asking for guidance, mentoring and coaching.

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I would like to congratulate you for taking the initiative of personally charting your career path without waiting for your line manager or company to lead the process. This is being proactive.

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Employees and candidates who possess this skill are in high-demand. If you do not, you can start today to develop this critical skill.

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Now, to the topic of today "Self-Coaching".

Let's start by understanding what #coaching is all about.

Coaching helps to unlock people's potential to maximize their own performance.

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#Coaching is about raising awareness and responsibility, that is, helping people to learn rather than teaching them.

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In the course of my trainings in #HR, I was introduced to the GROW Model of coaching.

This is an elegantly simple way of structuring an effective coaching conversation and, as such, has become one of the best loved models.

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GROW is an acronym that stands for:
GOAL
Current REALITY
OPTIONS
WILL (or WAY FORWARD)

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The key to using GROW successfully is first to spend sufficient time exploring "G" until the coachee sets a goal which is both inspirational and stretching for them, and then move flexibly through the sequence.

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GROW coaching is so effective that you can even use it to coach yourself.

I will show you HOW through some self-coaching GROW exercises, which you can carry out even now.

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First, think about something you would really like to achieve or perhaps resolve at work.

Then write down your answers to each of the questions I will share in subsequent tweets.

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Step 1 of the GROW Model - What are your GOALS?

1. What would you like to work on?

2. What would you like to have after answering this set of questions (eg, a first step/strategy/solution)?

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3. What is your goal related to this issue?

4. When are you going to achieve it?

5. What are the benefits for you in achieving this goal?

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6. Who else will benefit and in what way?

7. What will it be like if you achieve your goal?

8. What will you see/hear/feel?

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Step 2 of the GROW Model - What is the REALITY?

9. What action have you taken so far?

10. What is moving you toward your goal?

11. What is getting in the way?

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Step 3 of the GROW Model - What are your OPTIONS?

12. What different kind of options do you have to achieve your goal?

13. What else could you do?

14. What are the principal advantages and disadvantages of each option?

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Step 4 of the GROW Model - What WILL you do?

15. Which options will you choose to act on?

16. When are you going to start each action?

17. How committed are you, on a scale of 1-10, to taking each of these actions?

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18. If it is not a 10, what would make it a 10?

19. What will you commit to doing? (NOTE: It is also an option to do nothing and review at a later date.)

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We have come to the end of today's #HRwithEM #TwitterSession.

My hope is that you would put the lesson to practice right away. If you do, and would like to share the outcome, I would be glad to read from you.

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I look forward to having you again next week, same day, same time!

Thank you for contributing to making this #TwitterSession a success.

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Keep sending your burning #HR question(s) to [e-mail], and join me every Saturday at 4pm WAT | 4pm UTC+1 to learn how I would handle such a situation.

Have a beautiful weekend!

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For career tips and my thoughts on career development and current people management issues, please check out my latest blogpost on enmichael.ng

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