There is much more to coaching than simply picking up the phone at a pre-arranged period and connecting with your client for a 30 minute chat! The old axiom “You only get from your it, what you put into it” was never more true than for your coaching session. The client must receive maximum value from the session, since the coach receives maximum expenses.
If you want to facilitate the successful achievement of your client’s Desired Outcome, every one of your coaching sessions must be purposeful, results-driven and goal-oriented! If you want to charge top coaching fees, you better be to help go the extra mile and turn your coaching session into a coaching experience.
There are many elements that account for a properly executed coaching session. Here are the 10 session criteria that I consider essential for creating a coaching experience!
Preparation
Before I come in contact with a client, I usually allow myself a quarter-hour to properly get ready for the session. Right here is the time when I all of the following:
I review all my notes.
Every time I conduct a coaching session, I take detailed notes on everything that happens during the session. I am always amazed at what number of coaches rely on memory from one session to the other. If you don’t take notes, you are attain a great credible and professional coach! Winging is actually also for the birds!
I check my Coaching Timeline.
Every Coaching Program that I get ready for a client is based on a 3 – 6 month timeline. I use this timeline to hold both the client and myself the agent responsible for achieving measurable progress toward a Desired Outcome.
I read the “Prep Sheet”.
Prior to every session, my clients submit a Coaching Prep Sheet where they write a quick summary of the progress they made since the last session and where they want spend some extra time during the next session.
I prepare a Session Agenda.
Based on the notes, timeline and prep sheet, I create a simple agenda that I am going to use to try to coaching session to normal and on some time. Now I’m ready to make the phone call!
Maintaining Control
When you participate in a coaching session with your client, it is imperative that you are in control of the conversation consistently!You are the conductor of the “coaching bus” or your client is the passenger! While the consumer may have an itinerary of places that person wants to go, you’re the one that is driving public transit that will bring them there!
This is extremely true if you’re giving away a free initial coaching session! You’re passenger hasn’t even paid for the actual bus ticket yet, so don’t let them grab the steering wheel! If they can drive the actual bus themselves, why would they need you? Yet so many coaches allow their clients to “hijack” the coaching bus and take control of the session.
If you desire to deliver a quality coaching session, you should be in regulating! How do you maintain control? By asking questions!
Asking Questions
Lead the conversation by asking questions! These questions must be targeted and focused on the wanted Outcome. Listen intently to your client’s answers!
Ask more fears! Maintain control! And then wait for that “Coaching Climax”!
Creating Coaching Ejaculations.
A Coaching Climax is the ‘mental trigger’ that validates and authenticates a pivotal point from a coaching session.I deliberately chose the word ‘climax’ as a metaphor for the powerful impact akin to on a coaching client.A skillful Coach can achieve multiple Coaching Climaxes to get a client during a coaching session.
If your client does not experience at least one coaching climax for every 15 minutes of coaching, wikipedia reference your coaching session did not measure up to the rigorous standards in the place of Coaching EXPERT!
Achieving Milestones.
A sure-fire method to keep your clients motivated and on course is to provide measurable accomplishments during and following each coaching session.Recognize the progress the client has made as being the last session and point out any recent ‘milestones’ that he/she has accomplished.A ‘Success Formula’ is created when a string of ‘milestones’ are recorded around the path to achieving a Desired Outcome.
Keeping focus on the Desired Outcome.
If you don’t keep focus near the Desired Outcome, the client may start to wander in different directions. While you do not want to stifle any chance of your clients to accomplish a Coaching Climax, you must guard against any random deviations from the session agenda. A person’s don’t, the session will miss its objective and will be difficult to record in your notes in the context of the overall Desired Outcome.