Framework Mapping Worksheet

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Name the structures that guide your coaching work and make them explicit.

Framework Mapping Worksheet

Every coach works from frameworks - mental models, structured approaches, and conceptual scaffolding that shapes how they listen, question, and intervene. Most of this operates implicitly. The frameworks are there, but they haven't been named or examined.

That implicit quality becomes a limitation when you're explaining your approach to a client, positioning your work with a potential sponsor, or trying to understand why your method works in some contexts and not others. Articulating a framework forces precision. It surfaces the assumptions embedded in the structure and clarifies what it is and isn't useful for.

This worksheet provides space to document up to three frameworks you use in your practice. Use it to capture frameworks you've adopted from others, frameworks you've developed through your own experience, or frameworks you're actively testing.

The purpose isn't to produce polished descriptions - it's to get frameworks out of your head and onto the page where they can be examined.

How to Use This Worksheet

  1. Identify up to three frameworks you rely on in your coaching practice. These can be established models (GROW, ADKAR, Wheel of Life), approaches you've adapted, or structures you've developed yourself.
  2. For each framework, write its name on the title line.
  3. In the corresponding box, describe: what the framework does, when you use it, and what it helps the client see or do that they couldn't easily do without it.
  4. After completing all three, notice which descriptions feel clear and which feel vague. Vagueness usually means the framework isn't yet fully articulated - or that it's doing more work than you realize.
  5. Use this document as a reference when explaining your methodology to clients or sponsors, or when reflecting on which approach to use in a given session.
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Before your next session:

Which of your documented frameworks do you use most often - and have you ever explained it explicitly to a client? What would it mean for your practice if you made this framework part of your initial contracting conversation?

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