Get more from your coaching

You are paying for coaching. That's a good thing.

And you are not getting as much from it as you thought you would. How about this! Money going out and not as much benefit as you thought.

One of my clients, on a coaching call some time back, said he wanted to talk about our coaching relationship. I asked what specifically he wanted to talk about. He said that he had noticed that he did what he would normally do for 26 days (between our every 4-week call). Then for two days (near our call) he worked like crazy to get what he had agreed to completed.

That was not working. We brainstormed solutions to his problem. He picked speaking every week for 1/2 hour instead of our normal 1 hour session once per month.

This strategy went on for several months. Then on a call, he said he wanted to talk about our coaching relationship (again). We brainstormed again. This time the solution picked was to speak every two weeks for an hour.

More time passes. We speak again about our relationship.

We are back to 1/2 hour every week. On a recent non-coaching call, he said that this was working much, much, better than all the other choices that we have had.

So if you have a coach (and everyone should) and it is not working, you might discuss with your coach changing the periodicity or frequency. You might find it worthwhile.

I hope it works as well for you as my client.

Reg Gupton