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Purpose

The paper aims to provide a coaching framework for the millennial workforce using the Functional Fluency model. The coach empowers the millennials by asking powerful questions on each of the nine modes of the model. This will support them in “being in-charge”, “being self”, and “being with-it” to improve their personal effectiveness in workplace and personal life.

Design/methodology/approach

The framework offers the coach indicative powerful question based on nine modes of Functional Fluency model for coaching the millennials to improve their personal effectiveness in workplace and personal life.

Findings

Coaching the millennials is about making them aware on the way they expend their energies. Based on a millennial’s need for coaching, a coach asks powerful questions from one or more modes and explores their story to elicit realistic options for the next best step.

Research limitations/implications

The coach must possess the appropriate credentials to be a coach and have the knowledge of Functional Fluency. The questions in the framework are indicative of the modes.

Practical implications

The framework provides the coach using the Functional Fluency model to ask powerful “what-how” questions on each of the nine modes to elicit realistic options for way forward with a millennial “coachee”.

Originality/value

The organizations are devising innovative methods on training & development for the millennials. Coaching them with powerful questions on Functional Fluency Model provides the value on improving their interpersonal effectiveness at workplace and in personal life as well.

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