GROW Model
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The document outlines a mentoring process called 'grow' aimed at supporting students in goal setting and action planning, illustrated through the case study of Elena, a biological sciences student. Elena seeks to determine her career path working with animals and plans to secure a placement by the end of the year, despite her concerns about time pressures and lack of connections. The process emphasizes the importance of understanding current realities, exploring options, maintaining commitment, and utilizing mentor support for successful goal achievement.
GROW Model
- 1. LIMITLESS POTENTIAL | LIMITLESS OPPORTUNITIES | LIMITLESS IMPACTLIMITLESS POTENTIAL | LIMITLESS OPPORTUNITIES | LIMITLESS IMPACTLIMITLESS POTENTIAL | LIMITLESS OPPORTUNITIES | LIMITLESS IMPACTCopyright Universityof Reading GROW Career Mentoring Team 1 Careers
- 2. LIMITLESS POTENTIAL | LIMITLESS OPPORTUNITIES | LIMITLESS IMPACT GROW 2 • GROW is a mentoring process that can be used in mentoring sessions to support goal setting and action planning.
- 3. LIMITLESS POTENTIAL | LIMITLESS OPPORTUNITIES | LIMITLESS IMPACT ELENA 3 • During this PowerPoint, we will be looking at a brief example of how this might work in practice and our case study is that of Elena from Biological Sciences.
- 4. LIMITLESS POTENTIAL | LIMITLESS OPPORTUNITIES | LIMITLESS IMPACT GOAL 4 • This stage focuses on helping you to visualise what you want to achieve through describing the outcome you aspire to. • This stage links clearly to the idea of making goals SMART. • Of course it is not always easy to articulate a goal, so this is where you must try to elaborate as fully as possible about where you want to be by the end of the scheme. • At this point we expect that your mentor will ask you open questions with room to explain your motivations and objectives – try to be as open as possible for this conversation.
- 5. LIMITLESS POTENTIAL | LIMITLESS OPPORTUNITIES | LIMITLESS IMPACT ELENA’S GOAL 5 • Elena is a Biological Sciences student who is unsure what she wants to do, but knows she has a love of animals. • She would like to get a placement in her chosen career which would start during August/September, but at the moment she doesn’t know what to apply to. • She decides that her initial goal is: To have worked out what career she wants to pursue working with animals and to have tried her favourite options out through a placement by the end of the year.
- 6. LIMITLESS POTENTIAL | LIMITLESS OPPORTUNITIES | LIMITLESS IMPACT CURRENT REALITY 6 • To move forward towards this goal, it is important to take account of the current reality you are in. • Questions to consider are: • What kinds of things are happening in your life now? What, Who, When? What does this mean for this goal? • Have you taken any steps towards this goal already? • Does this goal conflict with other aims you have? • These are important questions as they can uncover all the pertinent information and issues that may impact on achieving this goal.
- 7. LIMITLESS POTENTIAL | LIMITLESS OPPORTUNITIES | LIMITLESS IMPACT ELENA’S CURRENT REALITY 7 • Elena talked about being behind, being worried about achieving a good degree classification and the impact this may have on her career options. • She also highlighted her lack of contacts with people who work with animals. • She is concerned about the pressure of time and lacks confidence in approaching people and feels she is the only person lacking knowledge to get her a good job. • She hasn’t done any research yet, she feels overwhelmed and doesn’t know where to start.
- 8. LIMITLESS POTENTIAL | LIMITLESS OPPORTUNITIES | LIMITLESS IMPACT OPTIONS 8 • This is a brainstorm. Try to come up with lots of solutions to the potential barriers you’re facing (your mentor will facilitate this). • Ask yourself the following questions: • What could my mentor do that would help? • What else could I do to help myself? • If you could relieve one pressure in particular, would that help? • What are the pros and cons of your potential solutions? • How are you weighing up your options? • What might you stop doing to help you reach your goal? • What obstacles stand in your way? • Although your mentor will assist you with this process, you should largely be in control of answering all of these questions.
- 9. LIMITLESS POTENTIAL | LIMITLESS OPPORTUNITIES | LIMITLESS IMPACT ELENA’S OPTIONS 9 • Elena realises that she should be looking at information about these job options. She says she could talk to Careers to find out where the best information is to look at. • She also says one of her lecturers has a couple of contacts she could talk to. • Elena could do a few self reflective exercises to explore her values and skills which could help her choose from the options available. (these are in the ‘mentoring activities’ booklet) • Her mentor then offers for her to come and have a tour around her workplace to learn more about working in ecological consultancy.
- 10. LIMITLESS POTENTIAL | LIMITLESS OPPORTUNITIES | LIMITLESS IMPACT WILL 10 • Through looking at the goal and where you stand at the moment, you should now be able to see how your goal may be achieved. • What may be lacking is commitment. Ask yourself: • What will I be doing, by when? What else will I need to do? • What might get in the way? How can you overcome this? • How can you stay motivated to achieve this? • When shall progress be reviewed? Set a date to do this with your mentor, but make sure you reflect independently before meeting your mentor too. • Give yourself a mark out of ten as to how likely you feel you are to achieve the goal. A low mark suggests a need to work back through the process a bit as you may not be as committed as you originally thought.
- 11. LIMITLESS POTENTIAL | LIMITLESS OPPORTUNITIES | LIMITLESS IMPACT ELENA’S WILL 11 • Elena is very keen to read information and to speak to have a tour of her mentor’s work place. • Networking with other contacts makes her feel nervous. She agrees to look into training in this area to help her overcome this. • She also doesn’t like psychological tests and isn’t keen on self- analysis, but can see the benefit. • Elena discusses the pros and cons of not doing the self analysis and she concludes this is a good idea and her will increases.
- 12. LIMITLESS POTENTIAL | LIMITLESS OPPORTUNITIES | LIMITLESS IMPACT FACILITATION 12 • Remember that to succeed you need to own your goal. • You should come up with the idea, buy in to it, eliminate barriers and feel confident that you can achieve it. • Facilitation is key. Your mentor is there to suggest and offer ideas but they will likely do so sparingly when you are lacking ideas. GROW can really help your mentoring, so feel free to experiment with it and build your confidence with this model.