Coaching Model Critique and Personal Development Strategies

This report evaluates coaching models for personal development and discusses strategies for personal growth. It examines the GROW model by Sir John Whitmore and instructional coaching models. The report emphasizes the importance of self-evaluation, setting goals, starting small, and having a winner's mindset. Personal development holds critical importance in an individual's life.

Coaching Model
Critique and PDP

Contents
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
COACHING MODEL CRITIQUE.............................................................................................................3
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES..........................................................................................4
CONCLUSION...........................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES............................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
This report is an exercise and an attempt in the direction of different aspects related to
personal development of an individual. Personal development is that exercise or practice through
which a person intend to maximize its skills and capabilities for gaining desirable levels of
strengths and capabilities in relevance to their benchmark of success. In personal development
focus of an individual is not just limited career and wealth only, but also one strives on securing
good goals of personal life as well, such as good health, peace of mind etc. In this report along
with discussing strategies of personal development, different type of coaching models that are
supportive in making personal development of an individual are also evaluated.
COACHING MODEL CRITIQUE
Coaching models are considered as very powerful tools in providing useful knowledge
and insight to people for making progress in various different fields of life. The coaching
models, in this context, are more meant for the individual own development in personal life,
through which they are also able to give meaning to other spheres of life as well. In this section
of report, various coaching models, those are developed by different philosophers and writers
have been evaluated. Here, the information that they want to convey is evaluated along with
finding up flaws in them.
GROW model by Sir John Whitmore (1980)
This model was developed in a manner through which the author argues that, for personal
development an individual must focus over four areas of establishing the Goals, Examining
reality of those goals (as to whether or not they are achievable), identifying options of reaching
up there and at last figuring out what the can actually do to achieve those goals (12 Effective
Coaching Models, 2020).
The biggest limitation of this model can be seen through over emphasis of this model of
pragmatism and reality. It has been argued by the critics that most difficult challenges of life are
minimized to negligible levels, through willpower of individual. They believe that, willower is
the biggest driving force for an individual.

Instructional Coaching Models
In the Instructional Coaching models, there have been works and studies of various writers and
laureates. These writers through this model intend to focus on interventions of teachers like
figures in making personal development of people. But, these models ignore the fact that, in
personal development strength, capabilities and opinions are useful at the individual levels. The
complete development of a person is possible only when motivation to change and working hard
is coming from within. Therefore, interventions of teachers are not that much required. But
guidance can be very helpful.
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES
Personal development and the methods that we choose to make our development on our
own have a very critical importance in our life. I have realized that many of the time I may be
aspired and be motivated myself for developing crucial and necessitated skills on personal and
professional levels as well, I may think of working on them as well (Tattum and Tattum, 2017).
But, when strategies and approaches to work on developing and skills are not right, desired
results cannot be possibly derived. Just marking some important skills, which may be required by
your work life, or values of modern times, but success is not possible unless process of
developing skills is not well though off and planned. Planning is must. It is not like that an
individual cannot make a particular type of skill or capabilities, is just the approach and planning
that shall be supportive of your ideas and intentions, along with the jewel idea of bringing up
personal development. It has been rightly mentioned by many motivational speakers and
laureates, that no challenge is bigger than Man’s potential. Therefore, if it is determined by one
to make progress and improvements, with right approach, success shall be quickly and gently
rendered (Carbonie, Guo and Cahalane, 2018).
Self evaluation- Considering the useful approach and methodologies that can be adopted by any
individual, I personally believe that one should always start of being biggest critic of oneself.
There has to be insecurities and apprehensions in an individual, related to oneself, that will be
working as impulse and pave the path along. Therefore, the first mark of right strategies towards
personal development is self evaluation. A person must take steps towards knowing that where is
he standing right now, is the current positioning of himself are compatible with the target that he

is aspiring for, or it is equivalent with desirable and acceptable standards pertaining to his
ambitions and success level. However, before making self evaluations, one must always have
two things in mind. The foremost is the clarity of vision towards success or achievements. One
must know that what is desire by him/her and where does he/she want to reach. Through this
clarity only, an individual will be capable of set desired levels of targets and then will be able to
make comparison. Second, most important thing is that an individual must not lie to oneself.
While making self evaluation, there can be chances where one is seen getting satisfied at level
where he or she is standing right now, and therefore closes the door of further progress in that
field in particular. This calls for the need of insecurities most of times, so that one do never settle
oneself at lower level and always try to achieve more and more. But for this, one has to believe
that there are deficiencies and flaw in him or her (11 personal development work strategies that
really works, 2016).
Setting goals and write them down- This is one of the most fruitful experience that I want to
share, categorically, in this report. Setting goals can be called and regarded as pre-requisite for
personal development. As it was discussed earlier in this report that one individual is required to
have clarity ad to what he or she is willing to achieve and what he or she is striving for, this
clarity of vision allow one to work in a particular direction, which is going to give him the
meaning of life (Osgerby, Marriott and Gee, 2018). There will be clarity within that individual as
what is meant to him and for what he is meant. This clarity will further open up the door of
intelligentsia for one, allowing identifying, deciding and setting up goals and objectives that
he/she is willing to achieve. As clarity of thoughts and vision about success will help individual
in working in a particular direction, that is criteria for his/her success. By setting up goals, one
will be striving to achieve that success in a targeted manner. therefore, goals are like small steps
in a ladder, that one shall be taking one by one, in order to reach that particular target. In this
section of report, I also emphasized over writing down these goals, so that one can get frequently
reminded of them. There comes time, when one feels burdened and exhausted by continuously
working towards securing achievements and success, and this is completely natural. But, as the
motivation to become superior is higher in an individual, one just has to get reminded of what
this exhaustion and tiredness means. Hence, a motivated human being will again take no longer
in bucking up and start the work again.

Start small- I have realized that, in my observations of other people and in my personal
experiences as well, that at the start of working towards personal development one is always
highly motivated and over enthusiastic. As a result, that individual thinks that everything can be
done by him at sudden points and he is capable of securing final results quickly. Hence, that
individual start taking bigger steps and start making bigger decisions, which are far away from
reality and thus brings some negative results for that individual. these negative results can be in
the form where one can get easily tired of making progress, or decides such patterns of making
progress that are forming a really difficult roads ahead for that individual. Therefore, the path to
success can become really tough for that individual where he seems getting tired and things may
become monotonous from him. Therefore, necessary planning is important in right manner. In
this planning, I believe that one can start from smaller things, and by prioritizing basic things at
first and foremost can prepare the road of Personal development for longer run. There are two
main advantage of this. Firstly, individual will get adaptable to changes schedules and new
developments in life. His or her mindset will become progressive and optimistic totally natural
and obvious for him (Schijven and et.al., 2021). Therefore, the challenge of adaptability will no
longer be the obstacle for that individual. Also, the individual can make necessary evaluation that
whether or not he or she is ready for that change in life, for which one is getting so desperate.
Second most important things is, when the individual will be seeing that things are going as per
planning and also he is securing desired success in his decisions and steps, the morale of
individual will go up and confidence will be boosted. I believe that setting smaller goals is not
meant to discourage individual from making progress. It is not like the individual is narrowing
down his criteria of success, but it something like a process, a process that completes and fulfill
journey of success along with boosting up confidence of person.
Have a Winner’s mindset- Winner’s mindset always direct the individual in a direction of
embracing everything, even setbacks and failures in a positive manner. In this mindset, the
acceptance level of an individual, towards failures and setbacks in really high, and he or she is
not ready to agree that they have failed. Rather they opine that, even a particular defeat or
setback has rendered them positive result and they agree that they have learnt something from
those setbacks. This is the attitude and mindset of a winner. They do not feel losing at any point
of time. Also, many novelist and scholars opines that, successful people also have a high belief
system. These people believe that with right approach, right attitude, patience and right timing,

everything is possible to be learnt. These people are seen giving high priority to right experience
and mentorship as well. They hardly have any habit of saying “No” to challenges and believe
that they are having all the capabilities of securing everything that they desire. However, in my
belief, winner’s attitude and mindset can be developed in an individual, as one tend to grow in
right direction and in right path (Fletcher, 2019). As, any individual aspires to work of making
progress towards personal developments, many new and positive things can be seen coming in
the path naturally, and this type of attitude will be automatically developed. This is because of
the confidence bough by the feeling of Self-righteousness. As an individual feels that there is
nothing going wrong in one’s life and matters or affairs are right in his control, than confidence
is seemed boosting up high, and also confidence is boosted up because of rise in level of
capabilities.
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion it can be concluded that, personal development holds a very
critical importance in life of an individual. in the dynamic world people are required to set aside
other things and prioritize them. They are required to put such agendas on top that focuses on their
individual goals and work towards improving their quality of life. This is the only way of making
oneself and one’s life as worth it.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
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Carbonie, A., Guo, Z. and Cahalane, M., 2018. Positive Personal Development through eSports.
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Osgerby, J., Marriott, P. and Gee, M., 2018. Accounting students perceptions of using visual
metaphor as part of personal development planning: an exploratory case study. Accounting
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Schijven, E. P. and et.al., 2021. Take it personal! Development and modelling study of an
indicated prevention programme for substance use in adolescents and young adults with mild
intellectual disabilities and borderline intellectual functioning. Journal of Applied Research in
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Fletcher, L., 2019. How can personal development lead to increased engagement? The roles of
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