4 Ways to Prep for a Coaching Call

How do you prep for a coaching call?

Whether you’re a life coach, business coach, career coach, health coach or a manager who’s about to have a coaching call with an employee, the quality of your prep will determine the quality of your call… and, far too often, coaches get into the bad habit of overscheduling their calls and under scheduling their preps.

Prepping for a coaching call is about creating an optimal environment for great coaching to happen and a great coaching experience to occur. It requires giving yourself the thing that, in many cases, you may not feel like you have: time.

But, time invested on the front end prevents time wasted on the back end. More importantly, proper coaching prep puts you in an optimal coaching mindset so you can be fully present for the coaching call and engaged while you’re in the coaching call.

So, what are the best ways to prep for a coaching call?

Here are 4 ways you can prep for a coaching call:

1. Send pre-session reflection questions.

Two to three days before your client’s next session (or the coaching call), review the notes from the last coaching session. Based on what took place during that session, email your client 2–3…