7 January 2025
In the world of coaching, both business and personal, the effectiveness of each session is more than just good questioning between coach and coachee. Close monitoring of every interaction, progress and feedback is an essential basis for achieving tangible and measurable results.
Monitoring your coaching sessions means more than tracking progress. It requires a deep understanding of your coachee’s specific interactions, goals and challenges. Here, it is crucial to clearly identify the goals of the coaching. Is it aimed at professional or personal development, stress management, or emotional management? Each goal requires its own approach.
It is also important to define the key moments of the session, such as the welcome section, feedback on agreements, addressing the session theme through questioning, role-play or confrontation, and so on. This also includes key insights, coachee engagements and identified obstacles. The need for monitoring also varies depending on your coaching style. Some coaches prefer a narrative approach and need a flexible tool for detailed reports, while others prefer methodologies based on precise data and indicators, for which an analytical tool is more appropriate.
It is also fundamental to consider the coachee’s preferences and comfort with the chosen tool. The ideal monitoring tool fits seamlessly into the coaching process without evoking resistance and facilitates a smooth transition to introspection and action.
Choosing the right tool to monitor your coaching sessions significantly enriches the coaching experience. Several criteria should be considered here:
The tool should provide the flexibility to adapt to different coaching styles and the unique nature of each development path. By tailoring the tool, it can respond perfectly to the goals set together with the coachee.
For optimal usability, the tool should be intuitive and pleasant to use.
By choosing a tool that meets these criteria, coaches can not only monitor their sessions more effectively, but also develop a deeper understanding of their coachee’s needs and progress, contributing to a richer and more fruitful coaching experience.
In short, choosing a follow-up tool can dramatically change your coaching. At the beginning of a career, many coaches experience the “imposter complex”. Doubting your performance and fearing being exposed as cheaters, despite clear successes or skills.
A structured approach to recording progress, clarifying objectives and reinforcing communication, can significantly increase the effectiveness of sessions. The aim is to create a dynamic where follow-up becomes a natural reflex, enriching you as a coach and enabling you to develop your skills through the sessions.
To help you track and manage the progress of your sessions, the “My coaching dashboard” kit is available in the shop.
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