Coaching Guides for Running Your Practice
Practical, in-depth guides for running a coaching practice, from organizing clients and writing session notes to pricing, agreements and getting clients.
How to organize your coaching clients
As a coaching practice grows, keeping clients organized becomes the difference between a calm week and a chaotic one. This guide covers a simple, durable way to organize coaching clients, the principles first, the tooling second.
Read guide ->How to write coaching session notes
Good session notes are retrievable, useful and respectful of the client’s privacy. This guide covers a practical structure for coaching session notes that holds up across months of work.
Read guide ->How to improve coaching accountability
Accountability is one of the most reliable ways coaching produces lasting change, but only when it is structured. This guide covers how to improve follow-through between sessions.
Read guide ->How to manage coaching programs
A coaching program gives an engagement shape, a beginning, a planned arc and an end. This guide covers how to structure and manage coaching programs so the work stays coherent from first session to last.
Read guide ->How to start a coaching business
Starting a coaching business is two jobs at once: becoming the kind of coach people pay for, and building the small, boring set of systems that let you actually run a practice. Most guides only cover one. This one walks through both, in the order they tend to matter, so you spend your energy on the steps that move you toward paying clients rather than on setup that can wait.
Read guide ->How to get coaching clients
Getting coaching clients is not a mystery, but it is a discipline. The coaches who stay booked are rarely the loudest marketers; they are the ones who treat client acquisition as a repeatable process rather than a stroke of luck. This guide lays out that process, from where enquiries come from, to how you turn a conversation into a paying client, to how you keep the ones you have so you are not forever starting from zero.
Read guide ->What a coaching agreement needs (with a free template)
A coaching agreement is the quiet document that prevents most of the awkward conversations a coaching relationship can produce. It sets shared expectations before the work begins: what coaching is and is not, how sessions run, what happens when someone cancels, who owns what is said, and how you get paid. Get it right once and it protects both you and your client for the life of the engagement.
Read guide ->Discovery call questions for coaches
A discovery call is the first real conversation between you and a prospective client, and the questions you ask shape everything that follows. Done well, it helps the person get clear on what they want, surfaces whether coaching is the right path, and lets both of you decide if you are a fit, all without a hint of a hard sell. Done badly, it becomes an awkward pitch that leaves everyone unsure.
Read guide ->How much do life coaches make?
It is one of the first questions people ask before becoming a coach, and one of the hardest to answer honestly: how much do life coaches make? The truthful answer is that there is no single figure, because a life coach's income depends far more on how they run their practice than on the job title. Two coaches with the same certification can earn very differently depending on their niche, their rates, how many clients they hold and how well they keep them. This guide explains what actually drives a coach's income and how to model your own, rather than repeating a number that means little in isolation.
Read guide ->How to write a coaching business plan
A coaching business plan is not a fifty-page document you write to impress a bank and never open again. For most coaches it is a short, working plan that forces you to answer the questions that decide whether the practice works: who you help, what you sell, what you charge, how people find you, and whether the numbers add up. Writing it down turns a collection of hopes into a set of decisions you can act on and revisit.
Read guide ->Types of coaching: a clear overview
Coaching is a single word covering a surprising range of practices, and the labels overlap enough to confuse anyone trying to make sense of them. Whether you are choosing a coach, deciding what kind of coach to become, or simply trying to understand the field, it helps to see the main types of coaching laid out plainly, with what each focuses on and where the boundaries blur. This overview does exactly that.
Read guide ->Powerful coaching questions (with examples)
A powerful coaching question does something a piece of advice never can: it makes the client think, and think for themselves. The best coaches are not the ones with the cleverest answers, they are the ones who ask the question that shifts how the client sees their situation. This guide gives you a bank of powerful coaching questions grouped by purpose, along with how to ask them well, so you can draw on them naturally rather than reaching for the same three every time.
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