How I Ensure Coaching Excellence For Every Client.

Introduction:

How I Ensure Coaching Excellence Every Client. My name is Paul Simos. I’m an Executive Coach, International Health Coach, and Corporate Trainer. I’ve been coaching for over 15+ years, backed by international certifications and a lifetime of business and life experience.

From a very young age, I’ve loved working with ideas, concepts, psychology, and the mechanics of the mind. I love to think, reflect, and find solutions. These and the fascination of the body-mind connection help me strive to be the best version of myself daily.

I look forward to sharing How I Ensure Coaching Excellence For Every Client in this newsletter.

What do I do daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly to Ensure Coaching Excellence For Every Client?

What are some of my habits and behaviors that prepare me for coaching excellence?

Read on for insights into my preparation rituals for coaching excellence.

1. Weekly Preparation:

Following are 5 (there are more) things I do for weekly preparation.

A. Reviewing Client Goals:

I will review each client’s notes for the coming week and their goals. Making sure we are still on track to their goal achievement.

B. Reflecting on Previous Sessions:

I will reflect on our conversation immediately after a client coaching session and before our next session. Reflection is a powerful practice for discovering more nuanced and robust information about the client’s situation.

Information that wasn’t accessible during the conversation because of current focus and time constraints.

I can replay the conversation, elicit deeper meanings, values, and beliefs, and make connections to factor into our next session. I can look back and join the dots of our conversation to learn more.

C. Updating Coaching Plans:

We may need to deviate from our original goal during coaching conversations as other essential topics occasionally arise.
Mostly, the topics that arise are part of the bigger picture of the client’s goal.

I will always check in with the client to ensure we’re on track. We have a very close working relationship, and I encourage the client to speak up.

They will let me know what’s most important to work on in this session and if they have a pressing topic.

We always work on their goals and have enough flexibility to address their evolving needs.

D. Seeking Feedback:

Seeking feedback is very important to me. It lets both the coach and coachee know that we are on track.

We know we are on track if the feedback is 9 or 10. If it is a number 6 or 7, we will discuss it, identify why, correct our course, and move on.

E. Self Care:

During the week, I love to invest in my physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health. I have many different practices that have helped me achieve my well-being goals.

Here are three:

• Exercise: This is a mixture of swimming, weightlifting, and yoga.
• Meditation: This is important to keep the mind calm and increase clarity.
• Reading: I study and read to feed my mind positive information about business practices, human development, human behavior, psychology, and self-leadership communication.

My state of being is very high when investing in these areas of my life. I can draw on all my internal and external resources for an empowering coaching conversation session with business executives.

We will have a breakthrough session whenever I’m in the right State of Being.

2. Daily Rituals:

Daily rituals are significant for me. I wrote an E-book on the subject called Power Move Habits.

It’s an influential treatise about our rituals and morning and evening routines.

Here are a few of my daily rituals:

• Wake up at 5.30 AM and complete a 40-minute meditation.
• Enjoy my Bullet-Proof coffee.
• Intermittent Fasting (IF) involves two meals daily, the first between 12 and 2 PM and the second between 6 and 7 PM.
• I read throughout the day via Audiobooks during downtime. I feed my mind daily with positive information regarding business, human behavior, and psychology.
• Exercise daily with one or all of swimming, weightlifting, and yoga.
• Regular visualisation practice.
• Journalling in the morning and evening.
• I am spending quality time with my family.
• In bed by 10 PM.

Our bodies love routines. When we discover a powerful, empowering routine, we can maximise our life experience and results.

3. Monthly Reflections:

Monthly coaching reflections are compelling for many reasons.

Here are a few.

• Monthly reflections are an opportunity to view my coaching approach and results. Are my methods and practices improving my results and experience?
• How is each client I work with performing in getting results and achieving their goals?
• What practices can I stop doing that no longer deliver results? What practices can I do more to increase results?

We can observe how far we have progressed, celebrate, and build confidence.

When I reflect monthly or yearly, it is powerful to see clients who have worked with me for years making leaps and bounds in their results and daily progress.

The clients’ businesses and careers are trending upwards. Their habits and behaviors produce excellent results. They are calmer, focused, and happy.

I also make it a point to have clients stop and reflect. We are so busy in the day-to-day running of our careers and lives that we are still waiting to see the significant progress we have made.

This practice needs to be part of everyone’s life.

One client, in particular, has transformed from being unfocused, angry about a previous divorce, and inconsistent in his business and business practices.

He even told me how to run the coaching sessions when we started coaching and wanted to take control. It was painful for both of us initially, but we persevered.

Now, it’s an absolute pleasure to coach him. His behavior has completely transformed. Compared to our first number of coaching sessions, he has improved in his speech and actions.

As a result of this behavioral change and his communication style, his relationships are much deeper and more positive. His business has taken off, and he employs more staff, trending upward in revenues, profits, and outcomes.

We would only believe it was the same person if we stopped and reflected on where he started.

He is so consistent that he almost always attends weekly coaching conversations.

“When we change, our lives change.”

Please take into account the power of reflection.

4. Yearly Planning:

Yearly planning: December is the perfect time for me to do two things.

• I look at the goals and performance of the previous 12 months.
• Set and review goals for the next 12 months.

After reviewing the last 12 months, I will spend several hours thinking about and planning goals for the next 12 months.

As an executive coach working with intelligent, hard-working executives, I want to keep up with them and serve them at the highest level possible.

How can I achieve this goal? I asked myself regularly, more so every December.

What could I do to create outstanding results and performance for the executive clients already benefiting from our Executive Coaching Service?

In December 2023, I set a goal to Read 100 Books in 2024.

My goal to read 100 books was a stretch because this was my first time reading so many books in one year. Also, how would I make it happen with my existing clients and schedule?

One way we grow is by setting goals that we need to learn new pathways to achieve. Now, I need to find a new path that doesn’t exist in my mind. I will need to take different actions in my life to achieve this goal.

I will need to drop certain habits and behaviors and introduce others.

“What got me here will not get me there!”

The executive clients will grow and stretch when I grow and stretch before them. I want to be the mirror neurons to their new positive habits and behaviors.

By setting a goal for myself of reading 100 business, psychology, human behavior, and coaching books, I can add more value to the coaching conversation experience.

I will grow, and clients can use my current knowledge in our coaching conversations. Having relevant, up-to-date knowledge is an excellent way for me to continue to raise the bar, step up, and add more value.

I’m always looking to learn new technologies to achieve results faster. I’m interested in replacing our old, outdated pathways with super highways.

5. Tips and Insights:

The following tips and insights work very well for me. They will also work for other coaches or you, the reader, who want to enhance your preparation routines for all successful interactions.

• Work on your self-development daily. When we improve, our professional and personal lives improve. Our businesses, careers, health, and relationships are an extension of who we are!
• The first hour of your day will determine your focus and results for the remainder of the day. Use it wisely!
  Lead by example. Walk the talk.
• Morning and evening routines. Find the routines that will allow you to maximise all your internal and external resources and raise your State of Being. Bring this State of Being into your coaching sessions and interactions.

One of the most significant breakthroughs I have experienced as a coach is that the more I grow and learn, the more I can support my clients and be the conduit to exceptional client results.

The professional executive is busy building the business. When they are stuck, they need solutions now!

When I read, I read for my clients. I read information I can use quickly and efficiently to solve the problems and challenges in their professional and personal lives.

The more I know, learn, and understand, the faster I can get professional executives back up and running their businesses, which they do best.

In my coaching conversations, the quicker clients get their wins and gains in the session, the faster they can implement the solutions.

7. Closing Thoughts

One of the main takeaways is that we must continue to focus on and manage our State of Being.

Our State of Being is essential whether you are a coach, business owner, executive, employee, mum or dad.

How we show up in our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual bodies will impact our results, period!

I’ve been fortunate to discover and implement empowering practices that allow me to be at the top of my game in every interaction, including, most importantly, my coaching conversations.

Please consider implementing one, some, or all of the above empowering practices.

When we work on ourselves, elevating our State of Being and keeping it elevated during the day, solutions will appear, our challenges will disappear, and we will attract all good things into our lives.

When we change our ENERGY and communicate a HIGHER FREQUENCY to OURSELVES and the WORLD, our lives become a MAGICAL EXPERIENCE.

These are a few ways I can ensure coaching excellence for every client.

Paul Simos is an accomplished Executive Life Coach, Health Coach, and Certified Trainer. His fundamental belief about his clients frames how they work together: They already have everything they need to succeed. His role as a coach is stimulating and challenging his clients to unlock their successful beliefs, skills, and behaviour patterns. LinkedIn.

Resources:

1) Complimentary Powerful Coaching Conversation – Free discovery session
2) Read 100 Books Goal 2024 – My goal for 2024
3) Power Move Habits E-Book – Morning & evening routines
4) 10 Situations That Call For A Coach – Last Week’s Newsletter