There is much more to coaching than simply picking up the phone at a pre-arranged serious amounts of connecting with your client for a 30 minute chat! The old axiom “You only get out of it, what you fit into it” was never more true than for your coaching session. The client must receive maximum value from the session, an enormous coach receives maximum liabilities.
If you want to facilitate the successful achievement of your client’s Desired Outcome, every one of your 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 make up a properly executed coaching session. Suggestions the 10 session criteria that I consider essential for creating a coaching experience!
Preparation
Before I come in contact with a client, I always allow myself quarter-hour to properly get prepared for the session. Right here is the time when I 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 really a credible and professional coach! Winging it is for the the destruction!
I check my Coaching Timeline.
Every Coaching Program that I prepare for a client will be based upon a 3 – 6 month timeline. I use this timeline to hold both the client and personal training classes 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 waste 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 keep the coaching session on track and on precious time. Now I’m ready to make the phone call!
Maintaining Control
When you get involved in a coaching session with your client, it is important to are in control of the conversation all the!You are the conductor of one’s “coaching bus” with your client is the passenger! While the consumer may have a trip of places the guy wants to go, you’re the individual that is driving public transit that will take them there!
This is particularly true if you’re releasing a free initial coaching session! You’re passenger hasn’t even paid for public transit ticket yet, so don’t let them grab the controls! If they can drive public transit themselves, why do they need you? Yet so many coaches allow their clients to “hijack” the coaching bus and take control within the session.
If you want to deliver a quality coaching session, you should be in hold! 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 topics! 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 from a coaching session.I deliberately chose the word ‘climax’ as a metaphor for the powerful impact it has 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 you will discover potentially 15 minutes of coaching, your coaching session did not measure up towards rigorous standards to a Coaching EXPERT!
Achieving Milestones.
A sure-fire way to keep your clients motivated and on courseon target is to provide measurable accomplishments during and following each coaching session.Recognize the progress the client has made mainly because 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 result.
Keeping focus across the Desired Outcome.
If you don’t keep focus on Desired Outcome, customer may start to wander in different directions. While surely do not to be able 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 get difficult to record in your notes in the context of the overall Desired Outcome.