Learning points summary

  • STORM gives you and your coachees a tool to help set a well-defined, time-bounded objective, which also helps you to identify the people and resources needed to set it in motion.

  • The process of identifying people and resources needed to achieve the objective generates the first steps of an action plan.

  • Use it at the beginning of the COACH model.

  • Use the GOLD model to review your coachees’ progress towards their objective on an ongoing basis, using the measurements of progress you have already identified.

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