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<\/p>\nAlternatively, some clients are unsure about coaching, how it works, or what to expect.\u00a0 They may have been \u201cvolun-told\u201d to go to a coach or they may know someone with a coach and only have a vague sense of the possibilities.<\/p>\n
In either scenario, as a coach it is smart to be ready both with answers to common questions and with questions to ask the prospective client.\u00a0 Look at the information they may have seen and prepare answers.\u00a0 Prepare success stories and failures you overcame while ensuring you protect confidentiality.<\/p>\n
If a client starts with asking about you as a person, professional, and\/or coach, provide a short answer and then ask about them and what they want.\u00a0 When you start to learn about them and what they want, you are better prepared to share the relevant information about yourself.<\/p>\n
It is smart to ask about their understanding of coaching because it is essential to be on the same page with what coaching offers before starting.<\/p>\n
A great best practice is to offer a free introductory session to get to know them and their objectives while also giving them a taste of your style as coach.\u00a0 In this way you both decide if your connection works and serves the client.\u00a0 Then you move into an agreement for the coaching<\/a> engagement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When that first conversation happens with a prospective client, how do you handle it? Sometimes clients come prepared to interview a prospective coach.\u00a0 They may … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[470,471,16,40],"tags":[278,77,50,213,205,1903,1902],"class_list":["post-9695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coaching-resources","category-coaching-skills","category-coaching-stories","category-tools-and-techniques","tag-center-for-coaching-certification","tag-client","tag-coaching","tag-conversation","tag-icf","tag-prospective","tag-the-first-conversation-with-a-prospective-client","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9695"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10574,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9695\/revisions\/10574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}