There is much more to coaching than simply picking up the phone at a pre-arranged time and connecting with your client for a 30 minute chat! The old axiom “You only get out of it, what you included in it” was never more true than for your coaching session. The client must receive maximum value from the session, an enormous 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 for you to go the extra mile and turn your coaching session into a coaching experience.
There are many elements that formula a properly executed coaching session. Guidelines the 10 session criteria that I consider essential for creating a coaching experience!
Preparation
Before I connect with a client, I usually allow myself a quarter-hour to properly get prepared for the session. This can be a 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 period. I am always amazed at how many coaches rely on memory from one session to another. If you don’t take notes, you are not really a credible and professional coach! Winging every person for the the destruction!
I check my Coaching Timeline.
Every Coaching Program that I plan a client depends upon a 3 – 6 month timeline. I use this timeline to hold both the client and myself in command of 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 brief summary of the progress they made since the last session and where they want to pay 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 Let me use to maintain ones coaching session on the right track and on any time. Now I’m ready to make the video call!
Maintaining Control
When you engage in a coaching session with your client, it is essential to are in control of the conversation consistently!You are the conductor of one’s “coaching bus” or your client is the passenger! While the consumer may have a trip of places he or she wants to go, you’re the an individual that is driving riding on the bus that will bring them there!
This is extremely true if you’re gifting away a free initial coaching session! You’re passenger hasn’t even paid for the bus ticket yet, so don’t let them grab the rim! If they can drive riding on the bus themselves, why would they need you? Yet so many coaches allow their clients to “hijack” the coaching bus and take control on the session.
If you in order to deliver a quality coaching session, you have to 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 Outcome. Listen intently to your client’s answers!
Ask more fears! Maintain control! And then wait for the “integrative health coaching Climax”!
Creating Coaching Ejaculations.
A Coaching Climax is the ‘mental trigger’ that validates and authenticates a pivotal point in a coaching session.I deliberately chose the word ‘climax’ as a metaphor for the powerful impact found on 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 to the rigorous standards of a Coaching EXPERT!
Achieving Milestones.
A sure-fire method to keep your clients motivated and on track is to provide measurable accomplishments during and following each coaching session.Recognize the progress the client has made when the last session and point out any recent ‘milestones’ that he/she has got a chance to.A ‘Success Formula’ is created when a string of ‘milestones’ are recorded along side path to achieving a Desired Outcome.
Keeping focus about the Desired Outcome.
If you don’t keep focus on the Desired Outcome, customer may start to wander in different directions. While definitely do not to help stifle any chance for 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.