Coaches are seeing more red flags now than ever and can expect to in the future. Being comfortable and skilled at coaching through them is key. How do we support our clients while staying in scope, and maintaining client agency and safety?

Every coaching session must flow from a client-led agenda. How can we better co-create the client’s true agenda, understand the focus, the true underlying goal or desire, and the desired outcome from the session? How to work with unfocused clients or shifting focus.

How can we coach the consultation, making every consultation a powerful session? While not every consultation will lead to a signed contract, every session can be a powerful experience for the prospective client as well as for the coach.

How can we recognize what are our issues versus our client’s issues. How do we handle our baggage so we can be better coaches and happier people?

How do we deepen client satisfaction and coaching skill around vision and visioning, incorporating vision throughout the coaching process? How to use vision in consultations; guide your client to leave the first full session inspired and excited; know the distinction between long-term goals and vision.

Long-term goals are a key to helping a client achieve their vision. This is part of the design phase as well as an important part of ongoing coaching and planning. How do we effectively set SMART long-term goals with clients and hold them throughout the coaching arc while maintaining flexibility How can we recognize new long-term goals as they emerge?

These are both crucial elements of Positive Psychology and effective coaching. What’s the difference? How to use them powerfully. How do we evoke, recognize, and mine values and strengths for client growth and learning?

Where does our personality fit in? How much of ourselves do we bring into the coaching? What is my unique coach personality? How can we be client centered consistent with our personal style?

Time Management; Third-party contracts; Working with minors; Challenges around staying client centered while following company protocols (e.g. in health-tech companies).

Each session has an arc from opening to closing. There is also an arc to the coaching relationship. What is the overall arc of the coaching relationship from consultation to closing the contract?