Obstacles Conversation Planning Tool OBSTACLE Conversation Planning Tool OBSTACLE Conversation Planning Tool This tool allows you to plan and practice a coaching conversation by choosing the questions you want to ask for the OBSTACLE step of the GROW process. To select the question for the conversation, select "Include." Participant Name * Alex Lekhtinen Beth Sisson Bobby Jones Grover Hardin Joe Blow John B John Bruce JW Bruce Jwal Bruce Karen Brunner Kristi Tjo Patrick Participant Ric Bruce Tori Brunner Victoria Brunner Obstacle Questions Step 3A identifies OBSTACLES that contribute to a REALITY and need to be addressed to advance from their current performance level to their GOAL. Find the true root causes for skill, behavioral, or performance gaps. Focus of OBSTACLE Questions: • What prevents the GOAL? • When was the problem, issue, or skill gap first evident? • Identify OBSTACLES: skill gaps, behavioral issues, expectations, culture, resources, time, and working environment • Understand what is holding the individual back • Try to identify root causes To select the question for the conversation, select "Yes"; to exclude the question click "No." OBSTACLE 1 - What were the factors leading up to the setback? Which of these factors will be the most difficult to resolve? Include OBSTACLE 2 - What capabilities are holding you or your team back (skills, beliefs, factors, other people, etc.)? Include OBSTACLE 3 - When and with whom does the problem typically happen? Include OBSTACLE 4 - Take time to trace the negative behavior back to the last time it occurred. Did you feel some sort of emotion prior to the occurrence that may have spurred it? Include OBSTACLE 5 - What were the circumstances, where were you, or what event prevented you from feeling in control, from being your authentic self? Include OBSTACLE 6 - Did you give or take power from someone else, flee the situation, fight, or do all the work yourself? Include OBSTACLE 7 - What is holding you back? (reaction to conflict, fear of failure, desires, other people, etc.) And What Else? Include OBSTACLE 8 - What wouldn’t work? What is the opposite of that? Include OBSTACLE 9 - What have you already ruled out? And What Else? Include Submit Δ