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Session Notes Are to Be Carried Forth and Carried Out
When you really nail session notes, they’re more than mere documentation. In the hands of your client, they’re marching orders.
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Coaching Calls Are Meaningful, Memorable Milestones
Tell your clients that calls with you are going to be meaningful, memorable milestones. There are just a few ingredients you need to ensure are present to have this be true.
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The Gift that is Notes Written by Another
Think of the birthday cards you’ve received. Which ones stand out in memory, having really touched you? The ones where the Hallmark writer really nailed it with a witty zinger on the inside, below which was hastily scribbled “Love, So-and-so”? No. It’s the ones where…
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Meaningfully Engaged Beyond the Conversations
If we’re talking about meaningfully engaging with the coaching process, however they showed up in the last conversation is just the tip of the iceberg. Because no matter how enthusiastic they were, the real impact comes only from applying that coaching, to life as lived,…
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“Therapy for All” vs. “Coaching for All” vs. “Coaching for Some”
What's a good rallying cry for the masses in the space of well-being and expressing potential?
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Promises Made to Self Alone are Easy to Break
Notice in your sessions how often clients will say something that rhymes with:“Yeah, I really should…” or“I think it would be great if I got in the habit of…”. They might even use more committed language, like:“I’m going to…”,“I gonna start…” or even“I will…” Whether…
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“I Can See When You’re Empowered, I Can See When You’re Not”
Imagine being able to tell your clients this. And not in a creepy, Orwellian sense, but as a simple matter of fact around the things you create together to structure and support their efforts. A powerful and intentional coaching relationship will have you co-creating action…
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We Don’t Need You to Have More Certifications, We Need You to Hold Us as Big
A memo from your clients, coming from a place of wisdom deep from within.
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Don’t Share Session Notes if Nothing from Your Conversations Matters
We instinctively recognize that when someone makes the effort to share specific notes with us from a particular conversation, they feel those notes were particularly important and worth sharing. This is a coin with two sides, and the flip side of this coin similarly, even…
