Coaching With the CREATE Model
We live in a world of complexity. A world that often requires us to navigate conflicting choices at pace, all while maintaining a level of resilience and composure. What may have worked for us in the past, is often quickly requiring a new approach as the circumstances around us continue to evolve and shift.
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About the CREATE Coaching Model
The CREATE Coaching Model is a Coaching Tools Shop framework developed by Aleisha Coote and Illaina Darvill to structure a coaching conversation across six key areas: (1) Context; (2) Reaction; (3) Exploration; (4) Aspire; (5) Test; and (6) Evaluate.
Context – What’s top of mind for coaching today
Reaction – How are you currently showing up?
Exploration – What needs deeper exploration?
Aspire – What does success look like?
Test – What could you experiment with to create a shift?
Evaluate – How will you measure the impact of your efforts?
Key Benefits of the CREATE Coaching Model
Designed to help anchor coaching conversations to our evolving context, the CREATE coaching model provides a structured approach to exploring reactions (thinking, emotional and physical), aspirations, tests (or change experiments), and a process of evaluation.
The CREATE framework:
- Explores the significant circumstances impacting the coachees' world right now
- Delves into wellness by focusing on mental, emotional and physical reactions
- Adopts an agile sense of play and experimentation that encourages the coachee to test and evaluate new life or leadership habits that may serve towards their bigger aspirations
How to Coach With the CREATE Coaching Model
Begin the conversation with your coachee by clarifying what's top of mind for them, and then seek to learn more about their evolving Context and how they are currently showing up (mentally, emotionally, and physically - Reaction). Next, leverage these insights to determine what needs deeper exploration (Explore), and then set the vision for what they Aspire to be different.
Following on from your coachee’s aspirations, explore options or ideas to Test and experiment with - to see what might prompt new results. Finally, agree on a way to Evaluate the efforts. Determine how success will be measured or what learning might come from failure.
CREATE Coaching Questions
Context
What’s top of mind for coaching today?
What is meaningful about this topic?
What do you want to get out of today's coaching conversation?
What's significant about the timing?
How will you know you have achieved or made progress on this by the end of today's session?
Reaction
How are you currently showing up?
What are your recurring reactions?
What are you telling yourself – your thinking reactions?
How do you feel – your emotional reactions?
What behaviours or physical reactions are showing up?
Explore
What needs deeper exploration?
What are you learning about yourself that you didn't already know?
What are you learning about the situation that you didn't already know?
If things don't change, what is likely to happen?
What have you tried so far to transform this situation?
Aspire
What does success look like?
What does success feel like?
What will you hear yourself saying?
What will you hear others saying?
How do you want others to see you?
Test
What could you experiment with to create a shift?
What options are currently available to you?
What will it take to go beyond where you've gone before?
What might you do to 'think big, start small, and act fast'?
What idea resonates the most that you'd like to test and explore further?
Evaluate
How will you measure the impact of your efforts?
When will you start?
What are your first steps?
When will they be completed?
How will hold yourself accountable?
Download the CREATE Coaching Model Guide, Question Sets and Imagery
If you’ve found this summary helpful, check out our CREATE Coaching Model Guide, Question Sets and Imagery – curated to help you coach effectively with the CREATE framework.
This product pack includes a full set of more than 60 coaching questions, a self-coaching exercise to send to your coachee before or after your coaching session, and high-res images for use in your coaching guides or workshop materials.
Get ready, set, and CREATE!
