Once you decide that you want to enter a coaching partnership, I encourage you to consider what overarching goals you want to achieve during our work together. This will allow you to come prepared to the first coaching session (discovery or orientation session). Your preparation will allow for a more detailed and fleshed out discussion about which goals are realistic and what your expectations are.
For every subsequent session, I will encourage you to think about a topic beforehand. (See FAQs for examples of topics).
The purpose of thinking about a topic beforehand is that it enhances the quality and outcome of the session. When you think about the topic, you come better prepared and the action plan may be better designed.
In the days before a session, you may consider a particular topic for discussion. However, in the hours before the coaching session, an event or new thought comes up that you have no time to prepare. This new topic may be what is most important for you in the moment. There is no problem and the topic you bring to the coaching session should be the topic that is most important for you in the moment.
