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This week, you'll consider how coaching can help you and your career. You'll explore some of the different approaches a career coach might use, such as person-centred coaching, a popular approach where the coach supports the client to come up with their own solutions and decisions, a bit like nurturing a plant by providing the right conditions for maximum growth. You'll also focus on the GROW model, where G stands for goal, R for reality, O for options, and W for way forward. This is a framework used by many coaches. You'll move on to look at finding the right coach for you, creating a checklist of the skills and characteristics you are looking for. You'll finish this week by investigating how to become a coach yourself, auditing your skills, and considering how this could benefit you in your own career. Even if it isn't a current interest for you, this section will give you a useful insight into the thinking that your coach should have done before taking on the role.