Find out why interest in the powerful Grid approach is rising within the coaching profession and how you can add this useful method to your practice. Discover how Grid coaching can help coaches in different contexts – organizations, executive, health and well-being, career coaching, student coaching and so much more…
Grid: a mighty coaching tool for the way we want to live and work today
Equipped with the right coaching tools and framework, we can have:
All this and more is possible with a simple yet mighty powerful framework called the Grid, developed by Dr. Magdalena Bak-Maier, a neuroscientist, psychologist and leading coach-therapist specializing in burnout recovery.
The need for Grid coaching is growing
We’re faced with a world where:
- Over 250,000 young people between ages 18-24 report being put off work (City & Guilds Report, 2022).
- More than 35% of employees under 35 report a lack of motivation hindering their performance at work.
- Workplace burnout is at an all-time high putting further pressure on teams and threatening safety standards.
- Automation and technical advancement at the expense of relational skills erode performance and morale.
- Fear, strikes, and inequality increasingly leaves many staff disengaged.
- The number of people taking sick leave and needing help is rising with an estimated UK cost of 92 Billion.
There is also far wider social and public health cost as work follows us home!
Work-based stress adds pressure on all other, already overstretched systems including parents and kids and the elderly, those to whom we look for help and guidance – doctors, teachers, nurses, and care workers, and those in positions of power and leadership. If we’re all chronically tired and fearful – what sort of world can we create and model?
While Grid is not a general panacea, it is certainly a practical approach and tool that can make a positive difference.
As Grid creator, psychologist and master coach practitioner, I want to see more Grid coaches who can confidently support their clients where it matters most: their health and wellbeing along with healthy productivity.
Dr Magdalena Bak-Maier, Neuroscientist, Grid Creator and Educator
Grid coaching: building healthy agency and good habits
The beauty of the Grid is its power, flexibility, and massive accountability. Your clients can use the Grid to improve their performance and productivity whether they are lawyers, executives, work returners, business school graduates, Ph.D. students, researchers and academics, creatives, start-ups, CEOs… we could go on!
And, as coach you can help your clients more quickly and with lasting results.
If you’re working in HR and L&D where you are looking to equip internal coaches with powerful tools, the Grid for coaches training will also be a worthwhile investment in your workforce and your coaching academy pool.
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Take a look at some practical ways that Grid coaching can help coaches who coach in different contexts
1. Internal Coaches supporting business success
Organizations need to have healthy, engaged, and productive workforce. According to global HR leaders and the CIPD, workplace productivity and wellbeing and leadership capability need improving. At the heart of this is the need for staff to learn how to tap into a natural flow of how minds and bodies like to work. Grid is based on these insights.
Grid helps staff be more productive because it increases focus, eliminates procrastination, and encourages people to manage a more complete agenda that limits anxiety and reduces stress.
In our work, we often see employees start reporting they get results at a big cost or don’t get the results they want. With just 2-3 weeks of Grid coaching this trend starts to reverse.
“Grid was integral to the process of bringing thinking and discovering wisdom together into one place. From both a coaching and humanistic perspective the Grid allowed us to integrate heart, mind and spirit. It showed us the way and at the same time mapped our progress which is truly motivational.
It transpired that it is also a fantastic map for use in supervision, encouraging reactive practice and leads to a kind, compassionate way of being. “
Ivan Beaumont, Coaching Academy Director at Network Rail
“I was recommended the Get Productive Grid book by my coach at Network Rail. I’ve really enjoyed using the Grid system.
It is deceptively simple and it’s only when you put it into practice that you realise how powerful it is.”
Jeremy Bullock, Programme Manager at Network Rai
2. Coaches who coach doctors
Doctors have very little time as they priorize their patients but often they all need help. As more doctors and medical staff risk burnout and want to leave their profession due to stress, Grid coaching delivers a very compelling ROI. Doctors learn to self-care better and their work satisfaction increases.
Grid will give you and your client structure, a simple daily task that can be done in seconds to implement new healthy habits. And we have the data and first-person accounts to prove it. Grid coaching will also help you address a number of other work and career issues that are key to medical staff retention.
Here is the feedback from the 5 Self Care Forum judges (GPs and Wellbeing Advocates).
Self Care Forum 2022 Awards Feedback about the Grid
- Excellent tool, tempted to use it myself, lots of free materials.
- Grid is flexible, person-centered and relevant. Reading through the information made me want to do the Grid.
- Teaching the skills to self-care is at the heart of the initiative. Great examples of the evidence of impact and feedback. Anyone can use it.
3. Career Coaches
Career management are not easy to navigate at any life stage. Whether you’re working with students, supporting people in growing or changing their careers or working with work returners – Grid coaching will make your work easier and more motivating for your client.
The ICF defines coaching as ‘partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential’. Grid coaching fits this definition perfectly and it’s my experience that the Grid framework facilitates the opportunity to address both personal and professional arenas in a holistic way that is both thought provoking and creative.
Katie, Conley – Licensed Career Coach, Accredited Strengths Profile Practitioner, and Certified Grid Balance Coach 2024
4. Coaches supporting academics and creatives
One of the big costs that come with doing what one loves is that it can sometimes squeeze all else out creating imbalance and stress.
Things that are much more important, such as relationships, personal life, health and wellbeing and critical self-care can get neglected.
Until one day there’s trouble.
Grid coaching prevents this from happening. It also helps clients recover healthier balance.
Grid coach has a mighty coaching tool, a ready structure and the means to help their client transition towards better within just a few weeks creating lasting behaviour change.
As our world is in need of much innovation and a rich, robust and diverse next generation of thinkers and inventors, the research sector needs more healthy scientists. Grid is showing much impact in this arena including students, postdocs, academics, women and minority groups
5. Coaches working with young adults and students
Younger adults and students often struggle with increasing complexity as they begin to learn to manage life and relationships, studies, their well-being and future employability. They often need much guidance and advice. While instruments and diagnostics can be useful, what many students need, in practice is to be coached in taking practical steps that build results and confidence.
Our data shows students like the Grid and can take to it directly. That said, many benefit from being supported in implementing their practice and staying accountable. Grid coaches help students develop life-long success skills making this coaching niche deeply rewarding.
A coach can introduce the Grid to students, help them identify actions and review results at the next meeting.
As we know since things like writing CV, seeking work are things students often put off, Grid coaching helps students be employable and have better mental health.
With Grid we can coach students to take the necessary steps and develop a growth mindset. This builds true confidence.
6. Business Coaching from start-ups to CEOs
Visionaries often fall into a common thinking error. They think way too big in the short term and far too small in the longer term. Burnout in this category is the highest. Grid structure and how we set goals to time in it, work together to prevent overwhelm, eliminate confusion and keep stress low.
Without coaching many entrepreneurs succumb to internal critic, lose nerve, confidence and often quit too soon or make silly mistakes that cost time and money. Sadly in this process, failure however quick, also means loss of confidence and need to pick yourself up which can be hard, make one edge and hard to work with.
A Grid coach has the tool, process and framework to support someone in this space in be focused, clear and productive.
7. Well-being and mental health coaches
Coaches working in mental health and well-being will find Grid coaching very useful in supporting deep-level behavior change – burnout recovery, lessening depression or addiction, healing perfectionistic tendencies or overcoming crippling anxiety. If you want to rebuild agency and confidence, Grid can help! Many of these problematic states have their roots in lives that are out of balance.
Grid coaches will be able to help their clients manage workload, eliminate or lessen stress, and support greater wellness. Grid is incredibly effective at giving the coach and client an immediate structure that can be applied to life and work on a daily basis. Grid practice can then support that change with small steps that make it possible to begin to transform their current state into something better.
Be the change you want to see in your sector, city and country!
I have been coaching with the Grid coaching tool for over eight years and the results are amazing. And now, I want to give more coaches a creative license to take something into the world, not charge them a license fee to use it and helping them make a positive change where they can. The world I see is one where more people are well and coaches are critical to this vision becoming reality across different sectors.
Dr Magdalena Bak-Maier, Neuroscientist, Grid Creator and Educator
Are you ready for change?
You stand to make an important difference in people’s lives, in your workplace, as well as in your coaching profession. If you’re interested in supporting leadership and results on healthy basis, learn more about the Grid for Coaches Training.
Other ways to explore the power of Grid if you’re new to this work
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Grid Introduction Training£245.00 -
Grid Productivity Starter Pack£21.99 -
The Get Productive Grid Book£14.99
