Coaching practices for The People I Coach Leave Fired Up with a Plan but the First Ordinary Snag Throws Them and the Whole Thing Quietly Dies I Never Get Them to Name Before They Walk Out What's Likely to Get in the Way and What They'll Do When it Does

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• The people I coach leave fired up with a plan, but the first ordinary snag throws them and the whole thing quietly dies
• I start each coaching conversation from scratch and never circle back to what the person said they’d do last time
• We have a great talk and the person leaves with "I’ll think about it," and within a day or two it’s evaporated
• My coaching chats end on a warm "I’ll try to get to it" that I let slide as if it were a plan
• The moment the person I’m coaching names a couple of ideas, I jump in with "have you considered" and basically hand them my answer

Practices that may help

1. Obstacle anticipation before close
   Before ending, ask "what could get in the way?" and pre-plan the response.
   The GROW Coaching Model, Made Practical
2. Close the GROW loop with session review
   At the start of the next session, review what was committed and what actually happened before setting a new goal.
   The GROW Coaching Model, Made Practical
3. Secure Will — convert the best option into a specific commitment
   Close the conversation with a specific, self-declared commitment to a concrete next action.
   The GROW Model: Coaching Conversations That Actually Move People
4. Build a concrete Will commitment
   Convert the chosen option into a specific next action with a date, and ask "what will you do?" not "what will you try?"
   The GROW Coaching Model, Made Practical
5. Generate Options before evaluating any
   Brainstorm all possible paths before judging — then the coachee, not the coach, narrows them.
   The GROW Coaching Model, Made Practical
6. Ask "What do you want?"
   People often know what they want but haven’t said it — asking directly surfaces it and shifts from complaint to intention.
   The Coaching Habit: Seven Questions to Be More Coach-Like
7. Clarify the Goal with precision
   Establish exactly what the person wants to achieve — not the presenting topic, but the specific, owned outcome.
   The GROW Coaching Model, Made Practical
8. Ask "What’s the real challenge here for you?"
   The presenting problem is rarely the actual problem — this question cuts through to what really matters.
   The Coaching Habit: Seven Questions to Be More Coach-Like
9. Use if–then commitments for predictable barriers
   Pre-plan your response to the specific situations most likely to derail the action.
   Committed Action, Made Practical
10. Set the Goal — establish what the conversation is for
    Begin every coaching conversation by clarifying what the person wants to achieve in this session.
    The GROW Model: Coaching Conversations That Actually Move People

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