What's a simple structure that you can use to guide you through a coaching session?

So there is one model that is quite interesting, which is, which goes with the letter GROW G R O W, for goal, reality, option, and will. And so that's a very simple structure. And with each part of the process, you have one question that you try to answer.

So at the first stage, which is goal, here, the question is, what do you want? So that's basically the question that you will ask the person. And usually people will say, Oh I'd love to explore this. And then suddenly you say, okay let's make it a little bit of priority.

What's the one thing for today? And then you will be quite clear. Okay. We have one goal that we can explore. Let's explore it. And then. Before going into let's fix it, we're going to add a bit more context with the kind of reality that's like the what's the situation now or where are you now with this situation where we try to understand what's happening and mapping also a bit all the different elements that make the situation either difficult or also where there are possibilities and that's when we slowly transition to this Option phase, where we ask the question, what could you do?

And here, one of the questions that we will always ask again and again in the options phase is, the usual question, which is, what else? What else could we do? If there was somebody else who you know, what would they recommend to you that you could do? Just here, it's really in this divergent phase where we really search for as many options as possible.

And then at the end of the coaching session, then what we do is we arrive at the moment where the person decides what she's willing to do, because the options are basically like a wish list to Santa Claus. Santa Claus will never give you everything, but he might select one or a few things on your wish list.

And that's exactly what we do here in the Will. So this is the final section or phase where we ask the question, okay, now we discussed a lot, we have a few options, which of these options or do you want to explore? Or more concretely, what will you do specifically?

What we see here is that for people coming from a design background, we see a kind of double diamond, where we see, oh, it's quite quick.

But at the start, we. We explore a few goals and then we select one. And so we diverge and we converge to one goal. And then we have like a big divergent phase where we explore the reality, we understand the reality, we explore many options, and then we go into the convergent phase again. And so that's how it so that's a very simple structure that you can use for a coaching session.

And what's nice with it is that it's so simple that you can also reveal it at the start of the coaching session that you're going to use this model and then you can guide people through it which is pretty nice.

The way I usually do that is basically I have this. I have this Miro template that I use, which is exactly the one that I use, and I just have the kind of sections in them, in it, with kind of the time I want to spend in it visually shown, and with the tiny questions that are already written.

What happens is that sometimes I don't explore just one that we don't just explore one goal in the session, but that we explore maybe two because we've been quite fast. And then how it looks is just that I just divide the space by having, okay, this is one goal. It's going to be that part. And then there is another goal.

And we do like the the whole thing, which allows me to then simply go here and then say, save as PDF and then have that kind of a a visual note of what the coaching session was and so that people have everything in it.

That's basically the GROW model which is. One of the simplest structure that is out there for coaching, which works really well and which kind of gives you also this kind of common language with the person who you're coaching because you can show it visually and say, Hey, that's what, where we are going, that's how much time we're going to spend for each of these questions and for each part or phase of the coaching session.

That's the main question that we're going to explore. And what's nice when such structures are simple is that people go out with it and can then reuse it because it's just four steps and you can reuse these four steps either alone or with someone else. And so that's something that I especially appreciate with that kind of structure.