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 from 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 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 in order 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. Guidelines the 10 session criteria that I consider essential for creating a coaching experience!
Preparation
Before I come in contact with a client, I usually allow myself fifteen minutes to properly incomparable the session. This is actually the time when I do 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 what number of coaches rely on memory from one session to the other. If you don’t take notes, you are in your home credible and professional coach! Winging it is for the birds!
I check my Coaching Timeline.
Every Coaching Program that I get prepared for 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 quick summary of the progress they made since the last session and where they want expend 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 keep the coaching session not off course and on some time. Now I’m ready to make the call!
Maintaining Control
When you participate in a coaching session with your client, it is important to are in control of the conversation at all times!You are the conductor of one’s “coaching bus” and your client is the passenger! While your client may have a trip of places your puppy wants to go, you’re the one who is driving the actual bus that will drive them there!
This is very true if you’re releasing a free initial coaching session! You’re passenger hasn’t even paid for the actual bus ticket yet, so don’t let them grab the leader! If they can drive the actual bus themselves, why turn to need you? Yet so many coaches allow their clients to “hijack” the coaching bus and take control of the session.
If you for you to deliver a quality coaching session, you’ve got to be in get a grip on! 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 questions! Maintain control! And then wait for the “Coaching Climax”!
Creating Coaching Climaxes.
A Coaching Climax is the ‘mental trigger’ that validates and authenticates a pivotal point from a coaching session.I deliberately chose the word ‘climax’ as a metaphor for the powerful impact it 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 the rigorous standards to a Coaching EXPERT!
Achieving Milestones.
A sure-fire method 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 since the 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 on the path to achieving a Desired Outcome.
Keeping focus about the Desired Outcome.
If you don’t keep focus during the Desired Outcome, customer may start to wander in different directions. While surely do not for you to stifle any chance for your clients accomplish a Coaching Climax, you must guard against any random deviations from the session agenda. Ought to 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.