Setting well formed outcomes - the companion to GROW

Setting well formed outcomes

The GROW model is a simple structure for moving from goals to actions.

However, there is often a difference between deciding what to do and actually doing it – consistently.

Setting well formed outcomes is an eight step process to ensure that you consider all the implications of a decision and deal effectively with anything that might stop you from succeeding.

We dealt with it in detail in a previous newsletter.

If you start to use the setting well formed outcomes questions, you will soon install them in your brain. In particular, you will begin to notice when statements and activities are not well formed, and be able to challenge them.

Resources

Follow this link to access a dynamic web form to use when making a decision.

Follow this link to download a printable form to use when making a decision.

Exercise

Print out several copies of the setting well formed outcomes sheet and use it.

Show it to your colleagues and use it when delegating – you will find it very useful in getting people to do things for you!

Keep these key questions in mind: -

What do I/we/you really want?

Is it within my/our/your control

What might stop me/us/you?

What is the first thing that I/we/you must do now?

They are particularly useful interventions for controlling discussion at meetings – or making sure they are followed up by actions.

Conclusion

Practising this process a few times will quickly install a mental discipline that will make you consistently more effective at making and implementing decisions.

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