Life coaching is generally done over the phone, so that you can obtain coaching anytime and anywhere, including from the comfort of your own home. According to a survey from the International Coach Federation conducted in 1998, 94.3% of coaches conduct coaching over the phone.
Life coaches coach you over the phone in order to maximize your time, increase your privacy and heighten your personal comfort. Coaches often have clients from all over the world.
In the same survey, 45.4% of coaches use email to coach, and online coaching is certainly on the rise.
Usually a coaching session is 45 to 60 minutes in length, but can also be shorter or longer. How many times a month is up to you and your coach. A weekly arrangement is common, as is weekly with one week off per month.
Very simply, life coaching often observes the same basic structure:
As mentioned above, the coaching plan and follow-up from the session are integral parts of your coaching journey. These progress reports allow you to work together with your coach to get the most out of each session. They keep you focussed on what you want to get out of each session, and over the longer term. They are also a great resource for documenting your progress toward your goals.
Before every coaching session, you will complete a coaching plan which will ask you about your accomplishments and challenges since your last appointment with your coach, and your objectives for the coming session.
In this plan:
Your coach uses this plan to keep you on track, keep the big picture in mind, and keep you motivated and moving toward your goals.
You'll submit the plan before your next session. Then at the start of your session, you and your coach can track your progress on your goals together, and review what you achieved since the last life coaching session.
After your coaching session you will create a follow-up from your session which summarizes what you and your coach have accomplished and agreed on. The follow-up from your session allows you to consolidate what you accomplished in the session.
Your follow-up from the session helps to give you more direction, and it helps your coach to see how you are progressing and how you want to grow.
In between your coaching sessions, you'll work on the action items you have committed to.
Most life coaches will give you some kind of homework, journaling, or other form of task at the end of each session for you to accomplish until your next session. This helps you to achieve your goals faster.
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1 | The history of life coaching |
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2 | What is life coaching? |
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3 | How does life coaching work? The coaching process |
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4 | How does life coaching work? The anatomy of a coaching session |
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5 | Is life coaching for me? |
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6 | Is life coaching worth the time and money? |
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7 | Becoming a coaching client |
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8 | Life coaching niche areas |
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9 | Coaching tools and techniques |
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