Having a lot of powerful coaching tips won’t necessarily help you be successful coaching others until you know what they want. One of the best coaching tips for a successful coaching relationship is to start at the foundation. If you were to build a house you would start with the foundation. In much the same way, the foundation of your successful coaching relationship is going to be formed by discovering what results your client wants from coaching with you.

Simple Coaching Tips Can Lead to a Successful Coaching Session

Some of the best coaching tips are the simple ones. For example, help your client determine what they want by asking them directly, “What result do want out of our coaching?” While this seems like a simple question, some clients won’t know how to answer it at first. Even though they may know exactly what result they want, they just don’t know how to articulate it. To help them, other questions you could ask are:

• What did you have a passion for earlier in life that you’ve gotten away from?
• Where would you live if you could choose to live anywhere?
• What would you do for a living if you were in charge?

As your clients answer these questions, they will give you information that can help to build a better picture if their passion and goals. By identifying their passion and goals, you are better able to develop a plan to take them there. In this way, simple coaching tips can turn into successful coaching results.

More Coaching Tips: Successful Coaching Results Depend On Helping Your Client Think

One of the most valuable coaching tips you will ever get for successful coaching is to use one simple statement: “Tell me more.” When your client says, “I don’t know what I want,” your best response is, “Tell me more about that.” Don’t be surprised if your client has a hard time with this; most clients have never really asked themselves what they want. Usually, they have just done what other people expected them to do. Be patient with them and keep them talking. By getting them to talk you will able to help them find out what they want. And when you know what they want, you will be able to determine which coaching tips you will need to give them in order to get the most successful coaching results possible.

Kris Thompson
JTS Advisors Strategy Coach