Analysis of the alternatives for action in nutritional coaching

The coach should do everything possible to elicit different options from the person or team being coached. To do this, the coach should first create an environment where participants feel safe to express their ideas without fear of judgment from the coach or other participants.

The coach should take note of all the options offered, even if some seem absurd, and should be randomized to avoid ranking them by hierarchy.

Sometimes, when an alternative arises we discard it based on our assumptions, which we are not absolutely confident that they correspond to reality, this is something to avoid.

Some of these examples would be:

• We do not have enough employees.

• It will cost us too much money.

• They will never agree to that.

In response to these statements, the coach may ask "What if?

• What if you had more employees? What would you do?

• What if you had a sufficient budget? What would you do?

• What if that obstacle did not exist? What would you do?

In this way we avoid censorship and encourage creative thinking, it may also happen that we find in one of these obstacles the possibility of being less insurmountable than it seemed at first.

Once a wide list of options has been made, we proceed to choose the most appropriate one. To do this it is necessary to examine the list carefully