Group coaching is a great way to leverage your time, as well as provide value for clients who can’t afford your usual coaching fees. The value of group sessions goes beyond financial. By participating in a group, your clients can provide inspiration for other in the group and also receive accolades from the other participants. This type of peer group can create real synergy in the lives of your clients, and often long term friendships are formed. If you are serious about starting your own group coaching programs, however, there are some important things you must address.

Adding Value to Your Group Coaching Programs

1. Know your clients. It’s hard to get to know individuals in a group coaching program. What I do is run a series of assessments on every participant such as D.I.S.C. and Values Assessments. It’s crucial to know what their style is and what the value when they

2. Create an environment where the participants get to know each other. Some ways you can do this are to have each client share their top 3 goals with the group and allow 5 minutes at the beginning of the call for people to share any big wins or challenges since the previous call. When people know each other in the group, they feel more comfortable opening up and sharing.

3. Create a website where you can provide resources. This is a great value add. If you don’t have any material you can start by posting replays of the group sessions. You can even edit each session down to a few separate posts and give them titles so people can search for a result that may have been covered in a previous session.

Consider That What You Are Offering Is Priceless

Many coaches don’t value their own group coaching programs. When you consider that you create access to coaching that almost anyone can afford and at the same time provide the benefits of an empowering peer group, it can be a powerful addition to your other coaching programs.

Hope you took some great value out of this post today! I’d love to hear your feedback, so make sure you leave a comment with your thoughts or questions. And also, you can click on the Twitter button below to retweet this article… Thank you!

Colette Seymann
JTS Advisors Designated Accountability Coach