Coaching Information Intake
The coaching information intake or foundation meeting is your opportunity to get to know your client and see if the two of you are a good fit for coaching. You will discover what is important to the client and how you can serve him/her as a coach. You will also be ‘training’ your client about what coaching will be like. You will begin to design the alliance that the two of you will continue to design as long as you work together.
The value of taking time with the intake meeting cannot be overstated. Everything that follows in the relationship begins here. As a professional, you should be clear about what your ground rules are in the coaching relationship, what you expect from the client and what the client can count on from you. Discuss confidentiality and the ethics and standards that guide your behavior.
Initial Information Gathering – Intake Session
The Initial Questions:
- What brings you to coaching?
- What specifically would you like to focus on in coaching?
- What are your personal strengths?
- What areas would you like to develop?
- What is your definition of success?
- What are some of your rules/beliefs from childhood? Do they still apply?
- Do you have a history of working with someone helpful in the past?
- What do you value most in your relationships with others?
- What works when you are most successful at making changes?
- Where do you usually get stuck?
- How would you like me to respond as your coach when you get stuck?
- What motivates you to get unstuck?
- How do you deal with disappointment or failure?
- How are you about doing what you say you will do?
- What tends to empower you?
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