As a leader you have great responsibilities towards your team. to help your team to grow.
As a coach or mentor you have responsibilities too.
Inspiring, urging and encourage your team and helping them to grow are main factors to reach success and to build strong team that can achieve all the goals of organization.
As a leader having coaching skills is from the essentials that you need to excel. Coaching your team and encourage them to get solutions and ideas are so powerful to reach excellence in their personal, professional life.
Regarding coaching skills, using models and tools will help you tremendously to do the job.
Grow Model
Grow model considers one of the powerful model to coach and mentoring others as well.
It is originally developed in 1980th by business coaches: Sir Whitmore, Graham Alexander and Alan Fine.
It depends on four basic steps to set a goal, know the current situation and number the solutions. Finally, put the action plan and the next steps.
The Grow model is an acronym for four steps:
G – Goal
R – Reality
O – Options
W- will/way forward
Setting the Goal
As a leader you, you need to set the goal at the very beginning or why bother to try to know the reality then the solutions.
First things first which is know the end result. What do you want to achieve!
Additionally, it is necessary to know that the goal is a SMART goal. It is attainable, time framed, measurable, real one and logic.
As a coach, it is so important to set a goal for your session as to dig deep into the reality and the options, it is needed to know what the client wants to achieve by the end of the sessions.
What is the end result that he need to achieve.
Know the Reality
The current situation is where is everything is hidden. In the current situation all the stories begin, the pain, the challenges and the reasons behind them all.
It is important to set a reasonable time in this stage to know exactly what is behind everything happens with your team if you’re a leader or your client if you are a coach.
For example:
- Tell me about your current situation?
- What do you feel?
- How this impacts your life?
- If this situation doesn’t exist, what will happen?
- Tell me more!
Fully understanding of the reality of the clients/ team will set the foundation of a success coaching.
The Options
Provoking the thoughts of the clients / team is the core of coaching. It is a process of brainstorming. It is to let the client/ team bring their own solutions, their own ideas.
Provoking their thoughts by asking great questions will bring great answers.
That is exactly what you need to know as a leader/ coach to set all the solutions, options in front of their eyes.
The clients need to widen their thoughts and see the whole matter from different perspective. After all coaching is about raising self-awareness.
Let the team / clients number the options themselves, and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each and every option/ solution. this model will help your team to grow.
Let them be aware of the options and which one is the suitable for their challenge.
The client is the expert.
He is the only one who knows his/her circumstances, background, problems and challenges. What really happens in their life?
Way Forward
What’s next!
It is so important question the clients or the team need to be asked.
What is the next move? How will you achieve this?
What is the obstacle that you may face?
How will you tackle that?
These entire questions will add some more clarity plus specific action steps the clients will put in their consideration to see the big picture for every step of their action plan.
And we can’t forget the timing, support and any other thing will help the clients/team to achieve their goal that they set in the very beginning of the coaching session.
Grow may be is not the only coaching model in coaching, there are many other models such as; SCORE, COACH and OSKAR. Though GROW Model is the most powerful and it is the basic for the other models.
Try to use this model to help your team to grow.
Needless to say, it is so powerful to use it in your personal and professional life.
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