There is much more to health coaching topics 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 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, nevertheless the coach receives maximum 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 formula a properly executed coaching session. Guidelines the 10 session criteria that I consider essential for creating a coaching experience!
Preparation
Before I get in touch with a client, I always allow myself fifteen minutes to properly get prepared for the session. Right here is 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 workout session. I am always amazed at just how many coaches rely on memory from one session to the other. If you don’t take notes, you are not a credible and professional coach! Winging is actually also for the birds!
I check my Coaching Timeline.
Every Coaching Program that I plan a client will be based upon a 3 – 6 month schedule. I use this timeline to hold both the client and myself accountable 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 quick 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 keep the coaching session in order and on precious time. Now I’m ready to make the phone call!
Maintaining Control
When you participate in a coaching session with your client, it is crucial for you to are in associated with the conversation consistently!You are the conductor of the “coaching bus” or your client is the passenger! While the consumer may have an itinerary of places your puppy wants to go, you’re the individual who is driving riding on the bus that will take them there!
This is very true if you’re giving for free 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 riding on the bus 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 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 Outcome. Listen intently to your client’s answers!
Ask more questions! Maintain control! And then wait for your “Coaching Climax”!
Creating Coaching Ejaculations.
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 it 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 every 15 minutes of coaching, your coaching session did not measure up on the rigorous standards on 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 accomplished.A ‘Success Formula’ is created when a string of ‘milestones’ are recorded around the path to achieving a Desired Outcome.
Keeping focus about the Desired Outcome.
If you don’t keep focus near the Desired Outcome, the client may start to wander in different directions. While you do not to help stifle any chance of your clients to 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.