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Meditation as a Coaching Model

January 4, 2012 By Dave Iuppa Leave a Comment

A coaching model is an approach to coaching. It is a set of principles that guides our engagement with our clients. There are many models in coaching, but one of my favorites is what I call the meditation model of coaching. It is based on the understanding that when we are in touch with our inner selves we are in touch with the farthest reaches of the universe. We are, therefore, in touch with all the answers to all the questions that we might possibly have.

In the Mediation Coaching Model, You Hold on by Letting Go

Hold on by letting go. Move by being motionless. And lead by following, if you have the nerve. We begin by helping to quiet our client’s conscious mind so that they can hear without listening, see without looking, and feel through a web of nerves that extends beyond themselves and connects with the web of being that is the universe.

If We Are so Connected, why Do We Seem so all Alone?

Our clients are so distracted by the frenetic pace of the physical world around them that they lose their sense of connection, and that is where the meditation in the mediation coaching model comes in. Meditation is a quieting of the mind. And in that quiet state, our clients can begin to hear not only their own pulse, but the pulse of the universe, the pulse of the entire creation. And if they can make that connection, they will soon learn that they can draw upon the wisdom of the universe, and that they are not alone.

What Drives this Realization?

Faith drives this most powerful coaching model. The faith that people demonstrate when they lean back and fall into the arms of their friends waiting to catch them just before their heads smash into the floor. This is the faith that allows our clients to sit, not only perfectly quite, but also perfectly vulnerable. Think about the state of perfect vulnerability. And if you can and you are ready for that responsibility, then you may be ready to be a meditation coach.

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Dave Iuppa
JTS Advisors Strategy and Accountability Coach

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Coaching Models: How Long Is Your Client’s Commitment?

January 3, 2011 By Jeffrey T. Sooey Leave a Comment

coaching models: coaching is like peeling an onionWhen you are looking at various coaching models, one of the biggest variables is the length of the initial client coaching commitment. You can find anything from a one session at a time commitment, which isn’t really much of a commitment at all, to a year long commitment. For some coaching models, like some masterminds, the commitment can be even longer. At JTS Advisors, we use a coaching model of a minimum initial 6 month commitment, after which the client can choose to be coached on a month to month basis.

The Coaching Rationale For The 6 Month Minimum

Six months is the minimum amount of time needed for most clients to achieve measurable stable results. Why? Well, in some ways, coaching is like peeling an onion. As coaches, we want to move our clients into action to realize their goals and dreams. But most of the time this means working through various layers of resistance and limiting beliefs. What often happens is that clients become their own worst enemy around months 3-5. At that point one of two things happens. Either they mistakenly feel that they’ve made sufficient progress that they can handle the rest on their own, or they’ve reached one of the inevitable roadblocks and need help and encouragement to keep them from backing off and giving up on their goal. In either case, a model which allows the client the choice to stop coaching at that point is a disserivce to the client.

Coaching Models Also Impact The Coach

In addition to serving the client less well, coaching models of less than 6 months often require significant extra time, energy and cost for the coach. For instance at JTS Advisors, we provide all new coaching clients with various materials to prepare them to get the most from their coaching experience. These include written materials which have a hard cost, online materials, and assessments which require extra time for the coach to revue and evaluate. In addition, with shorter commitments, you have to spend significantly more time on finding and enrolling leads in order to keep your client pipeline full. Thus your income is potentially less stable.

All in all, coaching models that entail less than a 6 month commitment from the client are less desirable for both client and coach. You will have more client success, less personal frustration and more income if you design your coaching packages with a six month or more time frame.

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Dorine G Kramer
JTS Advisors Strategy and Accountability Coach

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Coaching Models to Construct Your Own Life Coaching Business: Coaching Skills Application

September 21, 2009 By Jeffrey T. Sooey 2 Comments

The Three Things You’ll Need in Any of The Successful Coaching Models in Your Own Life Coaching Business

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Searching for coaching models that will help you understand how your own life coaching business is going to profit and prosper? There are three parts to any of the coaching models that will help your own life coaching business: Coaching Skills (and how to implement them for your coaching clients), Business Skills (and how to use them in your own life coaching business), and Action (keeping momentum and consistently moving in the right direction). Today you’ll learn about some of the most important thoughts, considerations, and questions you can ask about developing and using coaching skills in your own life coaching business.

Coaching Models Must Include How You’re Going to Use Coaching Skills in Your Own Life Coaching Business

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The ability to make a difference for your life coaching clients is, of course, a necessity for your own life coaching business.

1. Coaching Techniques:

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First you need to have basic coaching skills to help anyone, and then you’ll need to work out the special coaching techniques and skills to use with your particular types of coaching clients. How will you combine your skills and the information you need to teach them?

2. Ability to Manage Your Coaching Relationships:

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Second, you’ll need to know how to manage the life of your coaching relationships. Is it going to be a month to month agreement, or a 6-12 month commitment? How will you keep your clients interested? When they want to quit, what do you do? Do you coach every day or do you coach just one day per week? There are coaching models that will fit all the variations, but you’ll need to think about YOUR answers to these questions.

3. Ability to Build Powerful Coaching Programs:

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Even if you never want to set up a; seminar, training, or group coaching program, you’ll need to create coaching models that will help your clients learn what they need to learn from you and accomplish what they desire as a result of their work with you. Will they interact with other coaches? Will they need to partner with another client of yours? Do they need other materials like CDs, DVDs, internet content, books, workbooks, etc.? Do they need to experience a curriculum? Are there skills or knowledge that your clients need to gain in your program? Do you need to give them assignments and hold them accountable for them?

As You Develop Your Coaching Skills For Your Own Life Coaching Business, Don’t Forget Your Customer

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Remember, nobody cares as much about your coaching skills and these fancy coaching models you are using as much as you do. Your clients just want the results, and if the application of the coaching skills you’re developing is the answer, then they’ll be happy. But, if you just try to impress your clients with your abilities and don’t get them their results, then none of that will matter because you won’t have any clients in your own life coaching business.

Jeffrey T. Sooey

CEO, JTS Advisors

Founder, Coaches Training Blog community

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Coaching Models That Get Clients: Coaching Tips on Finding The Right Coaching Strategy That Pays Off For Your Own Coaching Type

August 8, 2009 By Jeffrey T. Sooey 3 Comments

Coaching models are a dime a dozen, but finding coaching tips on the right coaching models for your coaching business are very rare.  The problem with trying to find a good coaching strategy for your coaching practice is that you are unique.  You are a different type of coach and a different type of personality than the coach across the street from you.  This is a big problem if you look to the coaching ‘gurus’ that are trying to give coaching tips to make you fit into their ‘perfect’ coaching strategy.

It just doesn’t happen.

You are different.

You have strengths as a coach.

You have weaknesses as a coach.

You can’t ‘fit in’ to just any generic coaching models!

Here are three of the more common types of coaches and some coaching tips on how to build coaching models around your own ‘coaching personality’.

The First of The Coaching Models:  Coaching Tips For The ‘Driver Coach’

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A driver coach is just that… driven to succeed.  They like coaching tips that help them drive their clients towards success as well.  It can become an obsession for a driver coach to achieve success and be surrounded by nothing but successful clients.  The ultimate ‘driver coach’ coaching models are all based upon the fact that a ‘driver coach’ needs a ‘car’.  There’s nothing sadder than a driver coach searching for a ‘vehicle’ to drive towards success.  Driver coaches may not be very good at figuring out how to build their business, or strategizing about the best way to succeed, but once they find one of the coaching models that are simple and easy to follow, they will jump in that ‘vehicle’ and drive as fast and as far as they can until they run out of ‘gas’.  The point here, as that if you are a ‘driver coach’, stop trying to figure out how to get where you want to go, and just get on board with a cookie cutter coaching strategy that you can make work for you.  If you find coaching strategy that doesn’t work, then move on until you find one that does.  Do what you do best… DRIVE!

The Second of The Coaching Models:  Coaching Tips For The ‘Bookworm Coach’

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The ‘bookworm coach’ is a more private, slower-paced coach that likes to help their clients by providing information, researching topics, and sending lots of emails.  They are a natural for the coaching models of being an author, or blogger, or writing articles for certain publications.  They are masters of information and thrive on any coaching tips that can be best delivered through writing and learning.  Don’t try to beat people over the head with your stuff if you’re a ‘bookworm coach’ because you won’t be comfortable trying to ‘sell’ everyone you know… It’s better if your coaching strategy has more to do with passively distributing your coaching tips and teaching people rather than pushing people.

The Third of The Coaching Models:  Coaching Tips For The ‘Evangelist/Inspiration Coach’

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The ‘evangelist/inspiration coach’ doesn’t know what they are talking about… but they sure are good at talking about it!  Coaching tips run through them faster than a burrito through a midget.  The ‘evangelist/inspiration coach’ is best at taking someone else’s information (or their own idea) and sharing it with everyone in the most compelling way.  They are usually creative, and their coaching models should accommodate that creativity.  The social and open ended coaching models work best for the ‘evangelist/inspiration coach’, meaning that they would share their coaching tips by talking to lots of team members and convincing others to pick up the torch and come with them on their coaching journey.

No Matter What Your Coaching Strategy, Dive into The Best Coaching Models And Share The Best Coaching Tips With The Most People

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The most important of coaching models is to help the most people in the most compelling and most valuable way.  If your coaching tips are awesome, but you only share them with 10 people, then you’re in trouble.  If your coaching strategy gets your coaching out to 100,000 people, but it’s garbage, then you won’t succeed as a coach.  But if you find a coaching strategy that combines quality coaching with quantity, then you’ll make a very good living as a professional coach.

Jeffrey T. Sooey

CEO, JTS Advisors

Founder, Coaches Training Blog community

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