MQ 3.

Coaching Session Planner

In this Mini-Quest we’ll work on the power of your methodology. Part of that is the
way you conduct any coaching session.

Lesson 1: Coaching Session Planner

In this Mini-Quest we’ll help you design your coaching session.

Big ideas from this lesson:

• Eventually your coaching methodology will be so evolved that you don’t need a
structure to drive results.
• However, in order to build confidence as you start your coaching journey you’ll
need some sort of structure.
• The truth about coaching is that you don’t need a fancy degree or years of
experience. You need to be able to get your clients results.
• The 4 attitudes that you need as an impactful coach are:
• Interest
• Curiosity
• Intent
• Adaptability
• Identifying a specific area to focus your coaching efforts on…
• Provides you the time and curiosity to dive deep into the topic
• Helps you develop a solid understanding of what needs to be done
• Gives you drive to create the outcomes you want

#1: Areas of Interest & Outcomes

1. What are some areas of life or business that you’re interested in?
2. What are potential outcomes that these areas of interest hold available? 

(e.g. Area of interest: Love. Outcome: Finding a partner)
3. Choose one area of interest that you want to start with.

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Lesson 2: Getting Started

Big ideas from this lesson:

• One of the main reasons why coaches fail is because they spend more time on
“getting” new clients than serving them.
• Bad products don’t sell with good marketing.
• As a coach you should be able to:
• Open a conversation on the possibilities that lie ahead
• Work with the client to help them see these possibilities
• Use the client’s talent to create a path towards these possibilities
• Help the client to actually turn that possibility into a reality
• For each client that you work with, DISCOVER THE DESTINATION before embarking
on your coaching journey.
• Structure in a coaching session:
• Guarantees results with a proven approach
• Gives you freedom to safely experiment with creative ideas while delivering on the
transformation
• Saves time and energy
• Creates a sense of comfort and direction for new coaches
• Builds client confidence in your abilities

#2: Money & USP

1. How much money do you want to make this year?

2. How many clients do you really need for that goal to become a reality?
3. What is it about your offer that you love the most?

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Lesson 3: Anatomy of a Coaching Session

Big ideas from this lesson:

• The 4 fundamentals of coaching sessions are:

• Build rapport
• Setting goals and intentions
• Coaching through challenges
• Committed action and accountability
• Build rapport: Acknowledge your clients, start with a light conversation, make them
comfortable, keep eye contact consistent, open your body language, smile, be
genuine, celebrate small wins, share personal stories.
• Setting goals and intentions: What would make this session successful for you
today?
• Coach through challenges: Understand the why behind the goal, nail the problem
first, stay present, take pauses, note what they say and how they say it. Reflect on
patterns in their story. Challenge any belief or behaviour that isn’t serving them.
• Committed action and accountability: Always recap the key points of the
discussion, list down clear actionable steps.
• To take action help your clients understand:
• Where to start?
• What to do next?
• Hw to attain the goal?

#3: Coaching Session Plan

1. Reflect on your next coaching session

2. Use / adapt the structure we’ve provided you with and make it your own
3. Invite somebody to experience this coaching session with you

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Lesson 4: Coaching Session Examples #1

Big ideas from this lesson:

• Start off a conversation by getting clarity over the goal. Questions like ‘how can I
serve you today’ are a great start to a coaching conversation.
• There’s a difference between what they need and what they really need.
• Help your clients see what they can’t see. Sometimes what is right in front of you, is
the least obvious to see.
• Asking questions about the background & stories help you to identify patterns that
brought into the foreground can really make a difference.
• Visualising is a great tool to help your clients envision the future they want. Let them
describe it in present tense as if they were there.
• Giving advice is the exact opposite of what we should do as a coach.
• “The power of coaching is this - you are expected to give people the path to find
the answer, not the answers.” - Tom Mahalo
• Most people are seeking freedom from something. You can move to freedom to,
that is life changing. The final step is - freedom.
• Powerful Question: What do you hear when I share that distinction?
• You can challenge your clients even further: What would we have missed if we
stopped the conversation at this moment?
• Another skill of a powerful coach is to know when to take them off the hot seat.

#4: Silence & Presence

1. Get on a call with a client or a coach from our community

2. Coach each other within the scope of 15 minutes. (1 person starts off as a coach,
the other as coachee, coach for 15 minutes, then switch)
3. Try to apply the 4 parts of a coaching conversation (rapport, goals and intention,
coaching through challenges, committed action & accountability)

*feel free to use the Peer Coaching Calls that we provide for you to practice this

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Lesson 5: Coaching Session Examples #2

Big ideas from this lesson:

• Your first step as a coach is to create the space for a coaching conversation to
occur.
• Starter questions: How can I help? - or - How can we make this conversation a
great conversation?
• What your clients start with is not the problem, it’s what is familiar for them. Don’t
be afraid to go beyond it into the unfamiliar.
• Powerful questions: What would happen if ___? How does it feel to let go of ___?
What does that remind you of?
• Right at the place where we’re ready to break a pattern, it gets stronger. At that
point it’s likely that there’s still a payoff.
• Distinction 1: Help your clients to say ‘I’ instead of ‘You’ when they share how they
feel in order to fully feel it.
• Distinction 2: Stop your clients when needed.
• Distinction 3: Sometimes it’s ok to say more and challenge the situation.
• Help them turn their beliefs into tools and make them practice the tool with you.
• What’s the key takeaway? Make sure your client leaves with a concrete action step.

#5: Powerful Questions

1. Get on a call with a client or a coach from our community

2. Coach each other within the scope of 15 minutes. (1 person starts off as a coach,
the other as coachee, coach for 15 minutes, then switch)
3. Try to apply the language and powerful questions you learned so far

*feel free to use the Peer Coaching Calls that we provide for you to practice this

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