Coaching Models

GROW Model

Goal

Reality - SWOT

Options /Obstacles

Will / Way Forward

Here are 100 MCC-level coaching questions, drawing from models like GROW, CLEAR, OSCAR, TGROW, SOLUTION-FOCUSED, SYSTEMIC, and TRANSFORMATIONAL coaching. These are designed to go deeper than surface-level and evoke awareness, responsibility, and transformation.

GROW Model (Goal, Reality, Options, Will)

1. What would make this conversation truly valuable for you today?

2. What is the deeper outcome behind that goal?

3. If this were fully resolved, what would be different in your world?

4. What matters most about achieving this now?

5. What does success feel like, not just look like?

6. What is happening right now, beneath the surface?

7. What are you noticing about your own thinking here?

8. What assumptions might you be holding?

9. What part of this situation are you not naming yet?

10. What truth feels uncomfortable to say out loud?

11. What possibilities exist beyond the obvious ones?

12. If nothing was stopping you, what would you try?

13. What’s another way of seeing this?

14. What would your future self suggest?

15. What option aligns most with who you want to be?

16. What will you commit to, and by when?

17. What might get in the way, and how will you respond?

18. What support do you need to follow through?

19. How will you hold yourself accountable?

20. What does commitment feel like in your body right now?

CLEAR Model (Contract, Listen, Explore, Action, Review)

21. What would you like to focus on in this conversation?

22. What would make this a meaningful use of our time?

23. What expectations are you bringing into this space?

24. What would success look like for you by the end of this session?

25. What needs to be said before we go deeper?

26. As you say that, what feels most important to you?

27. What are you noticing within yourself as you speak?

28. Where is your energy strongest right now?

29. What are you not saying?

30. What’s the real issue here for you?

31. What’s at the heart of this?

32. What belief is driving this situation?

33. What are you holding onto that no longer serves you?

34. How is this pattern showing up elsewhere in your life?

35. What does this situation mean about you, if anything?

36. What action feels aligned with your truth?

37. What’s the smallest meaningful step you can take?

38. What are you willing to shift?

39. What are you no longer willing to tolerate?

40. What will you do differently starting now?

OSCAR Model (Outcome, Situation, Choices, Actions, Review)

41. What outcome are you truly committed to?

42. Why is that outcome important to you?

43. What would achieving this give you?

44. What would it cost you not to act?

45. What’s the bigger picture here?

46. What is the current reality you’re facing?

47. What’s working in your favour right now?

48. What challenges are present?

49. What patterns are you noticing?

50. What role are you playing in this situation?

51. What choices do you have right now?

52. What haven’t you considered yet?

53. What would courage look like here?

54. What would you do if you trusted yourself fully?

55. What’s the boldest option available?

56. What specific action will you take?

57. When will you start?

58. How will you measure progress?

59. What will success look like short-term?

60. What will keep you consistent?

Solution-Focused Coaching

61. What’s already working that you can build on?

62. When have you handled something like this well before?

63. What strengths are you bringing into this?

64. What would a small improvement look like?

65. What’s one thing you can do differently today?

66. Suppose a miracle happened overnight—what would be the first sign?

67. What would others notice about you?

68. What would you be doing differently?

69. What would no longer be a problem?

70. What’s already happening that resembles that future?

Transformational / MCC Depth Questions

71. Who are you being in this situation?

72. Who do you need to become to move forward?

73. What identity are you holding onto?

74. What are you afraid might happen if you change?

75. What is this situation inviting you to learn?

76. What part of you is resisting, and why?

77. What values are being challenged here?

78. What truth are you avoiding?

79. What would radical honesty sound like right now?

80. What does alignment mean for you in this moment?

Systemic Coaching

81. How does this issue affect others in your system?

82. What patterns do you see repeating?

83. Where else does this show up?

84. What is the system trying to maintain?

85. What happens if nothing changes?

86. What role do you play in maintaining this system?

87. What would shift if you changed your response?

88. Who else is impacted by your decision?

89. What conversations are missing?

90. What would the system say if it had a voice?

Integration & Reflection

91. What insight are you taking from this conversation?

92. What surprised you about your thinking?

93. What shifted for you during this process?

94. What are you more aware of now?

95. What will you do differently moving forward?

96. What are you committing to?

97. How will you sustain this change?

98. What support will you seek?

99. What does success mean now?

100. Who are you becoming as a result of this?