Insights for coaches building thriving practices
The ICF's executive coaching blueprint puts it directly: "Alignment between your coachee and their organization is crucial." The recommended structure is three...
The ICF puts it plainly in a blog post on the importance of boundaries in coaching: "If you consistently exceed the allotted coaching session time, for whatever...
Everything looked good on paper. The discovery call went well. The first session had energy. Then somewhere around session three, something shifted. The client...
A thread in r/personaltraining laid out the onboarding question most coaches eventually land on: "Automate the onboarding of new clients. I.e letting your syste...
Someone in r/personaltraining asked the question most online coaches eventually face: "Do you have any system for spotting which clients are about to cancel? Or...
A thread in r/lifecoaching asked a question most coaches recognise: how do you handle all the support that happens outside the actual session? The replies lande...
A coach on r/lifecoaching asked the question every growing practice eventually faces: at what point does scaling start to ruin the quality of your coaching? The...
A coaching membership pause policy answers the question every coach with recurring clients eventually faces. A thread in r/personaltraining asked: "Do you charg...
A thread in r/lifecoaching asked the question most new coaches eventually hit: should the first conversation with a potential client be a free discovery call or...
A thread in r/lifecoaching asked the question most coaching business owners think about too late: what software pain showed up first when you added a second coa...
A coach in r/lifecoaching described the problem most coaches recognize: "The between-sessions part is where I keep losing clients. I've tried Slack, Notion, Goo...
A thread in r/lifecoaching described a pattern that will sound familiar. A coach had 14 people book discovery calls over six months. She converted six. The othe...
A question in r/personaltraining cut straight to one of the most uncomfortable corners of running a coaching practice: "Sometimes I find clients do not use thei...
A coach in r/lifecoaching raised the coaching retreat deposit question most hosts eventually face: "Do you collect a deposit and invoice later? Use Stripe/PayPa...
A thread in r/lifecoaching put it plainly: the coaches struggling most with cancellations and no-shows were usually the same ones with no cancellation policy, n...
You sold a six-session package over three months. It is now month five and the client has used four sessions. You like them, so you keep extending. They like yo...
Is Coachful new? The software is young, and it is honest to say so. The coaching experience behind it is not. Coachful was built by Nour Chaaban, who has spent...
Does Coachful bring you clients? Partly, and the honest answer has two halves. Coachful runs its own marketplace, Find a Coach, where a person answers a few que...
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