There is much more to coaching than simply picking up the phone at a pre-arranged some connecting with your client for a 30 minute chat! The old axiom “You only get from your it, what you included in it” was never more true than for your coaching session. The client must receive maximum value from the session, nevertheless the 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 article 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 composition a properly executed coaching session. Suggestions the 10 session criteria that I consider essential for creating a coaching experience!
Preparation
Before I connect with a client, I always allow myself a quarter-hour to properly prepare 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 training. I am always amazed at what number of coaches rely on memory from one session to another. If you don’t take notes, you are attain a great credible and professional coach! Winging it is for the wild birds!
I check my Coaching Timeline.
Every Coaching Program that I get ready for a client will be based upon 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 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 preserve the coaching session in order and on some time. Now I’m ready to make the phone call!
Maintaining Control
When you go a coaching session with your client, it is imperative that you are in control of the conversation consistently!You are the conductor of your “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 individual that is driving the bus that will take them there!
This is especially true if you’re giving 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 leader! If they can drive public transit themselves, why turn to need you? Yet so many coaches allow their clients to “hijack” the coaching bus and take control with 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 wonders! These questions must be targeted and focused on the Outcome. Listen intently to your client’s answers!
Ask more questions! Maintain control! And then wait for your “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 found on 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 towards rigorous standards in the place of Coaching EXPERT!
Achieving Milestones.
A sure-fire for you 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 accomplished.A ‘Success Formula’ is created when a string of ‘milestones’ are recorded around the path to achieving a Desired End.
Keeping focus on the Desired Outcome.
If you don’t keep focus on the Desired Outcome, customer may start to wander in different directions. While you do not to be able to stifle any chance for your clients to attain 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.