What is the precise scope of work for a coach who is faithfully executing on the promise of a coaching engagement?
A very popular answer to this question is simply “the sessions”, nothing more, nothing less. Knock it out on those coaching sessions! Ask ‘em what’s on their mind this week and then give ‘em your best! Leave ‘em in a great place! Then the job is done, the rest is up to them!
Maybe there’s prep work a coach will do, often there’s not. There is no mandate, promise, or expectation that coach will write down or share anything with client afterwards.
This definition of the coach’s precise scope of work is the default, and is widely held up and down the spectrum of price and prestige.
Yet that is but one way to do it. Showing up for the sessions and dispensing coaching (however that’s defined) is but one way to define what constitutes the service that coach provides and makes available to clients.
As coach you can write and share session notes.
You can make action plans.
You can track meaningful measures.
You can share resources.
You can give assignments.
You can hold your clients to account for follow through and results because you’re actually creating things that live outside of your collective memory.
There are many practices you can weave into your style that serve clients in getting value, most of which require very little if any time beyond what’s you’ve already committed for the sessions themselves.
When you do these things, you make the coaching experience more than showing up for the conversations. And that allows you to positively dunk on the coaches who don’t, both in the value you create and the allure your coaching services have.
In CoachAccountable? Like it says above:
You can make action plans.
You can track meaningful measures.
You can share resources.
You can give assignments.
These are specifically crafted to make the experience of being coached by you as elegant, powerful, and results-producing as possible.
Indeed, the net result is, as it says above:
You can hold your clients to account for follow through and results because you’re actually creating things that live outside of your collective memory.
