Growth Plan Coach: guide others

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Before this course, and why guiding others really matters

In simple words

A good guide on a mountain walk does not carry you to the top. The guide walks beside you, asks which path you want, points out loose rocks and lets you choose your own pace. A growth plan coach is that kind of guide.

Before this course: Long-Term Life Planning: values and direction (course 9.10.3). You already know how to map values and their tensions, write a future-self letter and a Best Possible Self, build a ladder from values to weekly actions, use decision tools and run a yearly direction review. Here you learn to guide other people through the same tools, safely.

Key facts

Coaching here means a planned conversation that helps a person think about their own goals and act on them. The person makes the choices; the coach asks, listens and helps them stay on track.
Workplace coaching evidence. A meta-analysis of 17 workplace coaching studies found a positive overall effect on outcomes (δ = 0.36). Effects were δ = 0.28 for skills, δ = 0.51 for attitudes and feelings (affective outcomes) and δ = 1.24 for individual-level results. Internal coaches (from the same organisation) showed larger effects than external coaches. The format (face-to-face, blended or online) and the number of sessions did not change the effect significantly (Jones, Woods and Guillaume, 2016).
Limits: only 17 studies, all in workplaces, with different designs. These are averages from professional settings, not a promise that your coaching will work for a particular person.
Who does what (plain descriptions, not legal definitions):

Helper	Main job	Example
Growth plan coach	Helps a person clarify and act on their own plan	"What matters most to you this year?"
Mentor	Shares their own experience and advice (course 9.8)	"When I changed careers, I..."
Therapist or counsellor	Assesses and treats mental health problems	Licensed, clinical work
Licensed advisor	Gives advice on money, law, immigration or health	A licensed planner, lawyer or doctor

Step by step

Write one sentence that describes what you will offer as a growth plan coach.
Write one sentence that describes what you will not offer (therapy, money, legal or immigration advice).
List two people in your life who might like help with a growth plan (a friend, colleague or classmate).
For each, write which of the four helpers in the table they might need most.
Practise saying your two sentences aloud in under 20 seconds.
Check: your "will not offer" sentence names at least two kinds of help you will refer on.

Watch on YouTube

The GROW model for coaching: origins and application (Sir John Whitmore)Performance Consultants International · YouTube · youtube.com

Videos by other creators on YouTube, for reference. They are not made by or affiliated with The Future Market.

LESSON 01Before this course, and why guiding others really matters

LESSON 01 / ANIMATED LESSON / AI VOICE00:00 / 01:00

Voice

Read the video script

[Host] "A coach does not carry you up the mountain. A coach walks beside you."
[Text on screen: 17 workplace studies · overall effect 0.36] "A review of 17 workplace coaching studies found a positive average effect, with the biggest effects on individual results."
[Screen: four boxes: coach, mentor, therapist, licensed advisor] "But coaching is not therapy, and it is not money, legal or immigration advice."
[Host] "Know what you offer, and know what you refer."

Try it now

Write your "I offer / I do not offer" statement and keep it. You will use it in every first session.

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I'm learning "Growth Plan Coach: guide others" on The Future Market. Lesson 1: "Before this course, and why guiding others really matters".

What the lesson teaches:
- Coaching here means a planned conversation that helps a person think about their own goals and act on them. The person makes the choices; the coach asks, listens and helps them stay on track.
- Workplace coaching evidence. A meta-analysis of 17 workplace coaching studies found a positive overall effect on outcomes (δ = 0.36). Effects were δ = 0.28 for skills, δ = 0.51 for attitudes and feelings (affective outcomes) and δ = 1.24 for individual-level results. Internal coaches (from the same organisation) showed larger effects than external coaches. The format (face-to-face, blended or online) and the number of sessions did not change the effect significantly (Jones, Woods and Guillaume, 2016).
- Limits: only 17 studies, all in workplaces, with different designs. These are averages from professional settings, not a promise that your coaching will work for a particular person.
- Who does what (plain descriptions, not legal definitions):
- Helper - Main job - Example
- Growth plan coach - Helps a person clarify and act on their own plan - "What matters most to you this year?"
- Mentor - Shares their own experience and advice (course 9.8) - "When I changed careers, I..."

The exercise I'm working on:
Write your "I offer / I do not offer" statement and keep it. You will use it in every first session.

I'm stuck. Please:
1. Explain the main idea in plain, simple words with one everyday example.
2. Walk me through the exercise one small step at a time. Ask me what I've done so far before giving the next step.
3. Don't just give me the final answer. Help me do it myself, and check my work when I share it.

I'm a parent helping my child (about 8 years old) with a lesson called "Before this course, and why guiding others really matters" from the course "Growth Plan Coach: guide others".

Here's what the lesson says:
A good guide on a mountain walk does not carry you to the top. The guide walks beside you, asks which path you want, points out loose rocks and lets you choose your own pace. A growth plan coach is that kind of guide.

The activity:
Write your "I offer / I do not offer" statement and keep it. You will use it in every first session.

Please explain this so an 8-year-old understands: short sentences, a fun everyday example, and no hard words.
Then give me 3 simple questions I can ask my child to check they understood, and a way to do the activity together, one tiny step at a time.

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Sources

Jones, Woods & Guillaume (2016), "The effectiveness of workplace coaching: a meta-analysis of learning and performance outcomes from coaching," Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology: doi.org/10.1111/joop.12119

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