A Coaching Model Created by Riccardo Mereu
(Business Coach & Career Change Coach, ITALY)
A SWELL is a series of mechanical waves that propagate along the water surface and gradually expand beyond an original limit. It also means to grow, it involves movement, and it requires external energy to be initiated.
My coaching model is called SWELL it focuses on the recognition of your unique potential, in the identification of your obstacles and it challenges you to face reality, acknowledge excuses, challenges the status quo, seeking for new perspectives and pushes you to consider what could possibly happen if nothing changes.
The aim of this model is to help you stimulating that extra dose of energy that will allow the SWELL to happen, moving you forward and toward your goal, living your life the way you want and to expand beyond your limits.
Set your Goals
What Do You Want to Achieve?
The aim of the first session is to establish the foundations of the coaching relationship including trust and goal settings. During this initial phase, clients will be invited to define their goals as Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound, as well as dig on their motivation and intent.
Some classic question to start the process could be:
Witness your Potential
What’s Already in Your Hands?
The aim of this second phase is to create awareness. As such, clients will be invited to reflect on their current situation including their past achievements, explore their values, recourses, acknowledge success and identify possible patterns. In order to facilitate this type of exploration clients would be invited to complete some assessments such as Personality Test, Value Test and Wheel of Life.
Some classic question to support this phase could be:
Eliminate your Obstacles
What is Blocking You?
The aim of this third phase is to explore all the possible obstacles that are disturbing the process of growth, identify them, resize them or watch them from a different perspective and remove them.
Some supporting question would be:
Leverage your Excuses
What Are Your Alternatives?
During this phase usually, clients have already understood a lot about themselves and the situation but there are still blocked from making any movement ahead. Often there are some excuses or underlying beliefs to be addressed before moving to a proper action plan. The aim of this phase is to face reality, clean up residual resistances before moving to action.
Some classic question would be:
Launch your Plan
What Can You Do Now?
During this crucial phase, the coach will partner with clients adjusting the goal if needed, identifying the first steps to move forward, build a strong supporting system, and identify accountability methods to help clients achieving their own goal.
Some classic question to support this final process could be:
Expand Beyond Your Limits!