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 through it, what you set in it” was never more true than for your coaching session. The client must receive maximum value from the session, the actual coach receives maximum service fees.
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 to be able 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. Here are the 10 session criteria that I consider essential for creating a coaching experience!
Preparation
Before I contact a client, I usually allow myself 15 minutes to properly incomparable the session. This can be a time when I do all of the following:
I review all my notes.
Every time i was reading this conduct a coaching session, I take detailed notes on everything that happens during the training. I am always amazed at how many 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 every person for the wild birds!
I check my Coaching Timeline.
Every Coaching Program that I you’ll find a client will be based 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 short summary of the progress they made since the last session and where they want to 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 make your coaching session not off course and on any time. Now I’m ready to make the email!
Maintaining Control
When you get involved in a coaching session with your client, it is imperative that you are in control of the conversation whenever you require!You are the conductor of one’s “coaching bus” with your client is the passenger! While the consumer may have an itinerary of places he or she wants to go, you’re the one who is driving riding on the bus that will take them there!
This is very true if you’re giving 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 tyre! If they can drive the actual bus themselves, why do they historically need you? Yet so many coaches allow their clients to “hijack” the coaching bus and take control within the session.
If you to be able to deliver a quality coaching session, you must 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 desired Outcome. Listen intently to your client’s answers!
Ask more topics! 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 in the 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 on the rigorous standards to a Coaching EXPERT!
Achieving Milestones.
A sure-fire way to keep your clients motivated and ready 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 had reached.A ‘Success Formula’ is created when a string of ‘milestones’ are recorded around the path to achieving a Desired End.
Keeping focus across the Desired Outcome.
If you don’t keep focus during the Desired Outcome, the client may start to wander in different directions. While you certainly do not for you to stifle any potential for your clients accomplish a Coaching Climax, you must guard against any random deviations from the session agenda. A person don’t 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.