There is much more to coaching than simply picking up the phone at a pre-arranged serious amounts of connecting with your client for a 30 minute chat! The old axiom “You only get regarding 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 charges.
If you want to facilitate the successful achievement of your client’s Desired Outcome, every one of the coaching sessions must be purposeful, results-driven and goal-oriented! If you want to charge top coaching fees, you better be prepared to go the extra mile and turn your coaching session into a coaching experience.
There are many elements that form a properly executed coaching session. A couple of the 10 session criteria that I consider essential for creating a coaching experience!
Preparation
Before I come in contact with a client, I always allow myself 15 minutes to properly get ready for the session. Right here is the time when I all of the following:
I review my notes.
Every time I conduct a coaching session, I take detailed notes on everything that happens during the training. I am always amazed at what number of coaches rely on memory from one session to your next. If you don’t take notes, you are not a credible and professional coach! Winging is actually also for the the destruction!
I check my Coaching Timeline.
Every Coaching Program that I get ready for a client uses a 3 – 6 month schedule. I use this timeline to hold both the client and myself critical to 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 short summary of the progress they made since the last session and where they want to waste 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 make your coaching session on the right track and on precious time. Now I’m ready to make the email!
Maintaining Control
When you go a health coaching online session with your client, it is vital that you are in control of the conversation at all times!You are the conductor of the “coaching bus” with your client is the passenger! While your client may have an itinerary of places he or she wants to go, you’re the an individual that is driving riding on the bus that will take them there!
This is especially true if you’re gifting away a free initial coaching session! You’re passenger hasn’t even paid for riding on the bus ticket yet, so don’t let them grab the rim! If they can drive riding on the bus themselves, why do they need you? Yet so many coaches allow their clients to “hijack” the coaching bus and take control of this session.
If you want to deliver a quality coaching session, you have to be in control! 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 required Outcome. Listen intently to your client’s answers!
Ask more considerations! Maintain control! And then wait for that “Coaching Climax”!
Creating Coaching Sexual climaxes.
A Coaching Climax is the ‘mental trigger’ that validates and authenticates a pivotal point in the coaching session.I deliberately chose the word ‘climax’ as a metaphor for the powerful impact it’s 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 cons 15 minutes of coaching, your coaching session did not measure up towards rigorous standards on a Coaching EXPERT!
Achieving Milestones.
A sure-fire for you to keep your clients motivated and on courseon target is to provide measurable accomplishments during and following each coaching session.Recognize the progress the client has made considering that last session and point out any recent ‘milestones’ that he/she has reached.A ‘Success Formula’ is created when a string of ‘milestones’ are recorded within the path to achieving a Desired Outcome.
Keeping focus across the Desired Outcome.
If you don’t keep focus during the Desired Outcome, customer may start to wander in different directions. While you do not want to stifle any potential for your clients to achieve 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 end up being difficult to record in your notes in the context of the overall Desired Outcome.