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<\/p>\nPre-pandemic 80% of all coaching was virtual.\u00a0 Since the pandemic, almost 100% of coaching is virtual.\u00a0 The coaches and clients who were meeting face-to-face were impacted the most. \u00a0I had a funny conversation with one of our graduates, a coach who was resistant to the idea of coaching on the phone or online.\u00a0 The coach felts there was tremendous value in a face-to-face connection.\u00a0 The pandemic meant this coach experimented with telephone and online platforms.\u00a0 They found their sessions were better!\u00a0 What was different?\u00a0 They had to listen more intently, and the client was freer because they didn\u2019t see the coach react. <\/p>\n
What are the benefits of coaching<\/a> on the phone or online?\u00a0 With online sessions you have the option of being on-camera to say hi and have the personal connection, turn it off during the session, then at the end turn it on again to schedule the next call.\u00a0 During coaching sessions without cameras, the conversations stay focused on the client\u2019s thinking without the impact from the client seeing the coach take notes or their facial expressions.\u00a0 The client remains focused completely on what they wish to talk about.\u00a0 Because there is no visual, the coach hears more of what the client is saying.\u00a0 Another advantage is that coaches can serve clients all over the world.<\/p>\n As an interesting parallel coach training was often held face-to-face pre-pandemic and while enrollment in the virtual classes had been increasing anyway, only virtual was offered during the pandemic.\u00a0 In the coaching certification<\/a> classes, participants experienced on and off camera.\u00a0 The majority say they find off camera works best.\u00a0 What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pre-pandemic 80% of all coaching was virtual.\u00a0 Since the pandemic, almost 100% of coaching is virtual.\u00a0 The coaches and clients who were meeting face-to-face were … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,471,16,40],"tags":[1651,48,85,50,1645,1648,1646,1647,1218,1649,1650],"class_list":["post-9363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coaching-program","category-coaching-skills","category-coaching-stories","category-tools-and-techniques","tag-camera","tag-coach","tag-coach-training","tag-coaching","tag-coaching-face-to-face","tag-face-to-face","tag-on-the-phone","tag-or-virtually","tag-pandemic","tag-phone","tag-virtually","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\t\n