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GROW Coaching Questions for School Leaders

PDF of GROW coaching questions for school leaders to structure goal-setting, options and next steps with colleagues.

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Resource details

GROW Coaching Questions for School Leaders is a guide to GROW coaching, to help you plan and run coaching conversations with colleagues. Use it for coaching a colleague, for line management conversations, or to think through a goal of your own.

What's inside

  • A short explanation of the GROW model: goal, reality, options and way forward
  • Four questions for each stage, plus extra probing questions
  • Things to bear in mind, such as the limits of confidentiality when a safeguarding concern comes up
  • Links to coaching support in the HeadteacherChat community

Updated October 2026.

Format: editable Word document (.docx).

References

The GROW model was developed in the UK in the 1980s by Graham Alexander, Alan Fine and Sir John Whitmore, and set out in Whitmore's Coaching for Performance (first published 1992). The questions in this resource are HeadteacherChat's own.

Disclaimer

This resource gives general guidance to support coaching conversations. It is not a substitute for formal coaching training, supervision or professional advice. Use it alongside your school's or trust's own policies, including safeguarding.

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