The biggest trouble with coaching mastermind groups is that they don’t last very long.  Every coach is excited after they go through coach training.  Almost every life coach is raring to go when they first start a coaching mastermind group.  But very few coaches keep the dream of becoming a life coach alive after their first year of coach training or instruction.

Coach Training For Sustainability: The Ongoing Syntax for Coaching Mastermind Calls

Once you are out of coach training, and you are off and running with your coaching mastermind, you’ll need to keep it going, so first you’ll need to know how to run your mastermind calls ongoingly.

Here is a simple, ongoing syntax for coaching mastermind calls:

1.  The leader or mastermind organizer should take role and CALL any coach who is not there within first five minutes (no mastermind member left behind!).

2.  The mastermind group organizer will start recording the call.

HERE THE LEADER OF THE COACHING MASTERMIND WILL TAKE OVER:

3.  Give the coaches 2-5 minutes of small talk / updates, giving them a chance to connect (I heard coaches like to connect with one another).

4.  For 30-45 minutes, guide hotseat discussion(s) (The coaches(s) on the hotseat would be decided upon beforehand).  Content of the hotseat discussions can include:

a.  coaching goals they need help with
b.  an update with open feedback
c.  a problem they need solved
d.  questions they have -request for resources or connections with network(s)

5.  **ALTERNATE STEP 4:  An alternative or addition to a hotseat format could be to create a pseudo-coach training environment by discussing a particular book that the coaches read that week and how it applies to their ongoing coach training or how you can implement the teachings of training that they’ve received in the past.  Possible group assignment or accountability set up for each coach.

6.  The coaching mastermind group organizer should take 5 Minutes for double checking schedule of next mastermind call and which coach(es) will be next on the hotseat(s)

7.  After you get off the phone, take 5 Minutes to read coaching mastermind coach’s written goals or visions for the year.

Coach Training on What to do After / Between Coaching Mastermind Calls

The key to keeping the faith in your coaching mastermind group is to have powerful activity and results between mastermind calls that contribute to your ongoing coach training.  Make sure that all the coaches are making progress in their lives and businesses.

Coaching Mastermind Organizer Tasks: Coach Training on What You Need to do Between Calls

The coaching mastermind organizer will need to handle a few things between each call.  These simple actions will really contribute to the coach training and development that comes from your participation in the coach mastermind.

1.  Forward the call replay email link to the coaching mastermind coaches.

2.  Send a confirmation email of the next call time and WHO is on the hot seat.

3.  Send a reminder the day before the coaching mastermind meets… any coach who has an emergency and cannot make the call MUST email the organizer 24 hours ahead of time to notify the group (this should happen seldom, but sometimes is unavoidable).

4.  Send another email reminder the day OF the mastermind.

Coach Training on The Bonus Key to Magical Coaching Mastermind Results

Here is a little secret that my mastermind group does that has rendered HUGE results for us.  We all write out our visions for the year, then, after each mastermind call, we each individually read ALL the visions (including our own).  There’s something about the focus and intention that this process creates that is powerful and seems to create an almost magic synchronicity within the group and in our own lives and businesses.  Try it for yourself and see the results flow through your group!

Murphy’s Law in a Coaching Mastermind: What to Expect

Expect problems and challenges to show up.  If they do, you’ll be prepared and not surprised.  Remember that any problems in your mastermind group are simply additional coach training that you didn’t ask for, but you can still take advantage of.  If problems don’t show up, you’ll be pleasantly surprised!

Jeffrey T. Sooey

CEO, JTS Advisors

Founder, Coaches Training Blog community