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 regarding your it, what you dedicated to it” was never more true than for your coaching session. The client must receive maximum value from the session, while the coach receives maximum service fees.
If you want to facilitate the successful achievement of your client’s Desired Outcome, every one of one’s 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 make up a properly executed coaching session. Here are the 10 session criteria that I consider essential for creating a health coaching websites experience!
Preparation
Before I come in contact with a client, I usually allow myself 15 minutes to properly get ready for the session. This is actually the time when I do 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 procedure. I am always amazed at how many coaches rely on memory from one session to the next. If you don’t take notes, you are not a credible and professional coach! Winging always be for the birds!
I check my Coaching Timeline.
Every Coaching Program that I prepare for a client conditional 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 brief 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 will use to try to coaching session on track and on time. Now I’m ready to make the email!
Maintaining Control
When you go a coaching session with your client, it is vital that you are in control of the conversation often!You are the conductor of your “coaching bus” or your client is the passenger! While your client may have a trip of places they wants to go, you’re the an individual that is driving the bus that will bring them there!
This is particularly so if you’re releasing a free initial coaching session! You’re passenger hasn’t even paid for the bus ticket yet, so don’t let them grab the controls! 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 the session.
If you desire to deliver a quality coaching session, you’ve got 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 wanted 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 within 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 for a client during a coaching session.
If your client does not experience at least one coaching climax for each 15 minutes of coaching, your coaching session did not measure up to the rigorous standards in the place of Coaching EXPERT!
Achieving Milestones.
A sure-fire to help 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 got a chance to.A ‘Success Formula’ is created when a string of ‘milestones’ are recorded on the path to achieving a Desired Judgment.
Keeping focus across the Desired Outcome.
If you don’t keep focus on his or her Desired Outcome, customer may start to wander in different directions. While you do not for you to stifle any potential for your clients to achieve a Coaching Climax, you must guard against any random deviations from the session agenda. If you don’t, the session will miss its objective and will be going to difficult to record in your notes in the context of the overall Desired Outcome.