Why: Sharpen your objective, heighten self-awareness, identify opportunities, and create a plan to harvest them
When: Useful to turn challenges into goals and for improving performance or productivity
Instructions for running this play
- Prepare the workshop. On a whiteboard or large surface, create four sections labeled: Goal, Reality, Options, and Will (GROW).
- Agree on a goal. Conduct a 3-5 minute Silent Storm exercise writing one proposed goal per sticky note. Find similarities with Affinity Mapping and do Blind Voting to find the one winner. Write it in the Goal section. Discuss:
- Is the goal specific? How will we track progress?
- Who is responsible?
- Is it realistic?
- When should it be achieved?
- Reality. Understand your current situation. Repeat the process for the Reality section. Answer the following questions on post its:
- What’s happening now?
- Who’s involved?
- What’s the impact?
- What steps have been taken towards the goal?
- Are there any conflicting goals?
- Options (or obstacles). Explore possible solutions using an ideation technique like 3-12-3 Brainstorm or the Crazy Eights exercise. Post the most viable ideas in the Options section. Good trigger questions are:
- What if constraints were removed?
- What should be stopped to reach the goal?
- Will (or way forward). Decide on which options to action using Dot Voting. Use the <a href=”/plays/workshop-exercise/who-what-when-matrix>Who/What/When</a> exercise to assign responsibility, define the task, and set a timeline. Write the actions in the ‘Will’ section.
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Sources
- GROW model
- MindTools
- The GROW Model
- G.R.O.W by Charles Burdett