Client Service

How to get most out of Coaching

It is our commitment that you benefit greatly from the time we have together each week and also during the time in between our calls.
This brief introduction outlines how most of our clients maximize the value from their coaching with us.

Make a List
Keep Focused
Get to Know Yourself
Double Your Level of Willingness
Come to the Coaching Call Prepared
Enjoy Your Call
Keep Yourself Well
Do Your Homework

Make a List of What You Really Want in Life

Coaching works best when you have clear goals which are based on your needs and values. In your start up kit is a list of popular goals and a form on which to list these. If you’re not sure what your goals should be, we can discuss them during your call.

Keep Focused on a Foundation of Integrity

A strong foundation of integrity is an essential element in successful coaching. If you haven’t yet, start handling at least one item per week related to your personal integrity. Keep your coach posted on your current progress.

Get to Know Yourself Newly

Working with a challenging coach is a powerful, healthy way to grow. Most clients hire a coach to accomplish several specific goals and much of the time and focus is on these goals. Yet, with coaching, it is common to discover new parts of yourself or find your goals adjusting to who you really are. This is natural, so you needn’t rush it, just realize it will likely happen. Accelerated personal and professional growth is the hallmark of being coached.

Get to know yourself more by completing all client forms we send you from time to time. These pinpoint who you are, what you’re up to, what you need and what really fulfills you.

Double your Level of Willingness

Part of working with your coach is that he/she will ask a lot of you. Not more than you are capable of, but certainly more than you may have been asked recently. Your coach needs you to be willing to experiment with fresh approaches and be open to redesign the parts of your life that you are able to right now. This, so you can more easily reach your goals and live an integrated, fulfilled, and balanced personal and professional life, and enjoy your life as it was meant to be enjoyed.

• Here are some of things we need you to be willing to do:
• Experiment and try new things
• Remove all sources of stress in your life
• Redesign how you spend your time
• Set goals that are much, much bigger
• Start telling the absolute truth, regardless
• Eradicate all triggers of adrenaline
• Get the support you need to handle a problem
• Raise your personal standards to be high
• Stop tolerating or suffering about your life

Come to the Coaching Call Prepared, with an Agenda or List.
We have 30 minutes together and you’ll need to have a written list of things for you to share and us to discuss. Having this agenda helps
you get what you want from the call. On this list, include things like:

• Successes and wins that you have had during the week
• Problems you faced and how you handled them
• What you’re currently working on and how it’s going
• New awareness, insights, and “aha’s” which excite you
• Report on the homework
• A situation you are experiencing
• New skills you want to develop
• Strategies you wish to develop

Enjoy Your Call

We have work to do together, clearly, but enjoy the call with me. After several sessions, you may find that we take a little time to catch up on other parts of your life that mean a lot to you or you may want to share something personal and confidential. You may even find that we laugh during the call - at life, how you’ve grown, how things happen.

Keep Yourself Well Between Our Sessions

Coaching can require energy: emotional, intellectual, and physical. Given this, it is important for you to take extraordinary care of your well-being while being coached. Only you know what this looks like, but I suggest you go much further than you ever have in this regard. The place to start is to develop a list of 10-15 habits you will do daily which keep you well. Some of the habits you can develop into a routine are:

• Walk/Exercise
• Reduce fat intake
• Read
• Listen to great music
• Handle an incompletion
• Eat more vegetables
• Meditate
• Schedule massages/facials
• Take vitamins
• No caffeine, no drugs
• Start being early
• No sugar abuse
• Floss

Do your Homework Each Week

This is not homework like in grade school. These are tasks, actions, results or changes you are telling yourself and your coach that you will complete before our next call. You must apply yourself and use the homework to help you achieve your personal and business goals.