Coaching Conversations
Aims
Goal: coach a colleague through a problem using GROW — questions that lead them to their own plan, instead of handing them yours.
The lesson, stage by stage
- Warm up5 min
Warm-up: Don't give the answer
2 warm-up questions
- Reading10 min
Reading: The advice reflex
Read a 220-word text about The advice reflex
- Vocabulary8 min
Vocabulary: Coaching Vocabulary
6 items
- Framework6 min
Framework: The GROW Model
GROW: Goal – Reality – Options – Will, 4 steps
- Reading10 min
Reading: Two model coaching conversations
Read a 363-word text about Two model coaching conversations
- Practice7 min
Practice: Coaching Phrases
Gap-fill exercise, 5 items
- Practice7 min
Practice: Build Coaching Questions
Word-ordering exercise, 5 items
- Practice7 min
Practice: Turn Directing into Coaching
Error-correction exercise, 5 items
- Dialogue10 min
Dialogue: A Coaching Conversation Using GROW
Role-play: A team member wants to improve their public speaking skills. Use the GROW model to coach them through setting a goal and creating a plan. (11 lines)
- Discussion10 min
Discussion: Your mission: coach, don't tell
3 discussion questions
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Target vocabulary
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