Coaching Call Prep Guide
What to Expect on Our Call
First, I'm glad you booked some time together. Just doing that is a sign of the commitment you have to yourself and your goals.
Before we talk, I want to set the frame so you get the most out of our time together.
This won’t be a casual chat. Our call will be real coaching. We'll go straight into what's actually going on for you, and my intention is that you leave the conversation having gotten real value, whether or not we ever work together again.
How the call will be structured:
We’ll arrive and check in
You’ll share an issue that is alive for you
We’ll spend about 30 minutes with coaching
We’ll finish with a meta conversation and decide if we want to move forward in the process. If so, we’ll schedule the next call, which is where we’ll talk about your vision for your business and yourself, and design the coaching container for our work together.
Note: You will not have to make a decision about coaching at the end of this call. You should have a good idea of whether working together feels aligned and energizing enough to carry the conversation forward.
About my coaching:
Every issue comes with both “content” and “context”, a concept from The Conscious Leadership Group.
The content is the strategic and tactical aspect of the issue: the marketing playbook, the sales approach, the hiring methodology.
The context is how you're relating to the issue: your state of mind and body, the culture you're in, and the relationships involved
We will work with both, typically starting with content to see if there are simple solutions, and turning toward the context when it feels like there’s something blocking you that’s deeper than strategy.
Many coaches out there focus on fixing you, enforcing new strategies, mindsets, habits, and behaviors to help you address what’s broken inside you. That’s not the kind of coaching I do.
What I do is called “unfoldment.” It’s rooted in the belief that you aren’t broken. You don’t need fixing. You are already whole and complete, and you have an innate wisdom about the right next steps for you. That said, there may be things getting in the way of you seeing and experiencing that, and limiting your intuition. This work is to help you work with those impediments so you can see the path forward more clearly, and feel empowered to take aligned action.
Commitments:
At the start of the call, we’ll talk through the four commitments I suggest make to each other:
Possibility: You naturally have things you think are and aren’t possible. During our session, we’re both going to lean into possibility, and really expand what we’re willing to believe might be possible for you.
Radical Honesty: You will be honest with yourself, and share what’s honestly going on for you with me. I will be honest with myself, and share honestly what I’m seeing and experiencing with you.
Depth: We are open to going deep. Sometimes that may mean we’ll get into something tender, and you can also ask to slow down or step back from any subject. This also means you’re welcome to ask us to dive in more deeply to something that calls to you.
100% Responsibility: You’re committing to getting what you want out of this conversation and that you’re 100% responsible for that and how you show up. The same is true for me. I’m committed to showing up 100% for you and holding possibility regardless of how you show up.
I'll be fully present, nonjudgmental, and direct. I'll be your coach, not your friend, which means I'll say the things a friend might be too polite to say. I'll ask questions no one else is asking you. We'll go deeper than feels comfortable, because the thing you come in with is almost never the whole thing. My job is to create a container where you get to see and feel what you haven’t been able to see or feel on your own, and I take that seriously.
Please be on time and be somewhere private and quiet. This work is best done where you don’t have to worry about anyone else observing you, and you won’t be distracted.
I set a high bar for who I work with, and I'd guess you set a high bar, too. I believe there’s a reason we’re coming together at this moment in time. I can’t wait to see what unfolds.
Warmly,
David