5 Life Coaching Techniques that will transform your clients (and your biz!)
I want to share with you 5 life coaching techniques that will TRANSFORM your client's experience when you incorporate them into your coaching sessions!
#1 Bring a coaching mindset into every coaching session.
Keeping a mindset that is open, curious, flexible, and client-centered will dramatically shift your client's outcomes and will prevent you from entering consultant, teacher, or therapist mode during the call. These are important roles as well but we want to make sure to not muddy up the coaching session with other modalities.
#2 Create a coaching agreement for each session
Take about 10 min at the start of every client session to help your client figure out what they want to talk about during the call and what they need deeper support around. This will help the rest of the coaching call flow smoothly and will challenge your clients to gain clarity around what their deeper needs are in life.
#3 Listen more than you talk
The ICF recommends that coaches talk 20% of the time and listen for 80% of the time during a client session. By listening more than you talk you'll provide space and silence for your clients to think and come up with their own new breakthroughs. The more that you're talking - you're likely interrupting their thought process which will prevent them from creating new solutions.
#4 Ask powerful open-ended questions
Asking deep thought-provoking questions will help your client's to think in new expanded ways about themselves and their situations in life that are keeping them stuck. A good coaching session will leave client looking at life from a new perspective!
#5 Let your client's choose their own homework
It's common to think that coaches are supposed to "assign homework" for their clients but it's actually more effective to let your clients come up with their homework at the end of each call and their more likely to follow through too because people always like their own ideas best at the end of the day.
Which new technique are you going to incorporate into your coaching sessions moving forward? Let us know in the comments below!
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A Retired Nurse Turned Professional Certified Life Coach, Spiritual Business Mentor, Hypnotherapist, World Traveler, Author & Mama to Lincoln.
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