Coaches With Clients presents...

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• Coaches With Clients presents...

The Rapid Coaching Academy Professional Coach
Training System Session 1 Getting Started
Working With Clients
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Where People Are Coming From

• Already a coach
• Becoming a coach
• Exploring coaching
• You just want to learn
• Wherever you are is OK

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What Well Cover Today

• Overview of the Rapid Coaching Academy
• Lay out the ground rules for making the program a
  great success
• Talk about how to get started working with
  clients
• Coaching You

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Your Life Is Going To Change

• Small, subtle ways
• Blow-your-mind ways
• Youll make new friends
• This program is going to be fun (sometimes)
• This program will challenge you
• Just listening is going to make a big difference
  in your life change the way you think

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The Power To Impact People

• Friends, loved ones, strangers, co-workers, and
  clients
• Youll be able to make anyone feel better at any
  given moment
• Youll be able to change the course of their
  personal destiny

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Youll Learn These Fundamental Coaching
Skills...

• Create and maintain rapport
• Create well formed goals, objectives and
  directions
• Co-create strategies, both short term and long
  term
• Facilitate the enhancement of client skills
• Co-develop strong, inspiring and fail safe
  environments
• Identify and eliminate fears, doubts,
  self-judgments, limiting beliefs
• Transform individual identity, world vision, and
  personal capacities
• Asses client needs, create a coaching plan, and
  facilitate the coaching process

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The Ground Rules

• Everyones opinions, views, and feelings are
  completely valid
• Be as accepting of others as you can possibly be
• Be as accepting of yourself as you can possibly
  be
• Treat everyone with respect
• Anything is possible
• Everything is OKeven when its not
• Tell the truth
• Be impeccable with your word
• Do your best

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QA Coaching vs. Psychotherapy

• Q Where do you draw the line?
• Everyone is going to feel differently about this
• If a client needs X, Ill give them X.
• Its OK, if what were doing is in the context of
  achieving results
• If you ever feel youre in over your head, you
  may need to refer the client to a therapist

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Getting Started Working With A Client...

• One of the reasons clients dont stay, is the
  coach isnt coaching them on what the client
  wants to be coached on
• A lot of times coaches look at tools/assessments
  as coaching
• That may not be whats most important to the
  client
• You want to know exactly what clients want
• FreeSessionsThatSell.com

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Client Intake Form

• What does the client want?
• What are the challenges the client is having in
  getting what they want?
• Homework Fill out the coaching intake form

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QA How Often Do You Update What The Client
Wants?

• Most of us can sense if were in tune with what
  the client wants or not
• If youre feeling disconnected, then you should
  reassess what the clients wants and needs
• You can have them fill out the intake form again
• Maybe check in every 90 days
• Enjoy setting a goal, the journey of achieving
  the goal, and achieving the goal, but the goal
  itself does not necessarily make you happy

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Understand What Its Like to Be A Client

• Fill out the client intake form
• Ask yourself, What do I want?
• Related to your business or personal life
• Think of some big things, some little things

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How We Limit Ourselves

• Limiting yourself keep you from even dreaming
  from succeeding
• Ways we limit ourselves
• What we think is even possible
• What we think were capable of
• How hard we think something will be, and what we
  think its worth to get it
• How hurt, disappointed, or ashamed we would be if
  we went for it and failed
• How much we think were not worth it
• Failing is part of succeeding

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Failing Is Part of Succeeding

• Failing is part of succeeding
• Let your client be discouraged
• All emotions pass (no one stays in anything
  forever)
• Youll learn techniques to help a client get out
  of being stuck
• Failure is not an option because you cant avoid
  it.
• Dont hinge your happiness on any one result
• Life isnt fair limiting belief
• Give yourself your clients permission to fail

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Homework...

• Fill out the Client Intake Form
• Set some personal goals
• Optional create a dream board
• Pin up pictures of what you want to a board and
  put it where you can see it
• Identify three small actions you can do this week
  to move you towards you goals
• Actually do those actions
• Notice how you feel

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Our Next Session...

• How to create a safe place
• Create and maintain rapport
• Learn the psychology of performance
• How to change how you feel at any given moment
• How to change how well you perform
• How to get centered
• The science of momentum
• How to help clients create well formed goals,
  outcomes direction

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• Coaches With Clients presents...

The Rapid Coaching Academy Professional Coach
Training System Session 1 Getting Started
Working With Clients