The circle technique is an easy and flexible technique for making progress more visible and for helping people make further progress. It can be used individually but also in coachings and in team facilitation. It works like this. First you draw to two circles on a big piece of paper, an inner circle and an outer circle. The inner circle represents progress which has already been made; the outer circle stands for progress which has yet to be made.
You can use these circles by going through the following 4 steps:
- What is the topic you want to use the circles for? Write down what that topic is and why it is desirable and/or important for you to make progress with respect to that topic.
- What progress have you already made since you started working on that topic?
Write everything you have already accomplished on small post-it notes
down and put them in the inner-circle. Take your time to think of every
little step forward you have taken; nothing is too small.
- What further progress do you need or want to make? Write
down on post-its what to try, learn, master and/or accomplish next.
Formulate those steps forward in positive and specific terms.
- Choose your next step forward. Which post-it from
the outer circle would you like to move to the inner circle first? Think
of how and when you want to take that step.
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