Your Personal College Coach!

A Personal Coach for a College Student?

Absolutely!

Many college students are faced with enormous pressures to produce, to be successful, to manage all their tasks, to make friends and establish strong relationships with other students, professors, professional mentors.

There is a lot on your agenda!

The role of a student coach is to help you clarify your goals, your priorities, manage your tasks, overcome obstacles, and reach the place in life where you really want to be. Many of the things you will learn from the coaching experience will last a lifetime.

Read what USA Today has to say about student coaching.

The Foundation Session

As explained by Kim Marshall, one of the coaching mentors I value, in this extended session (lasting 2 - 3 hours), we build our coaching relationship – one that requires trust, courage, and honesty on both sides. We also bring laser focus to your agenda. What's most important? Where are you stuck? What skills do you need? What comes first? How will we know when we're done? Finally, we agree on the frequency, length, and location of future sessions.

You'll leave this session with clear objectives, tools, and momentum. Tools may include questions for reflection; daily habits to strengthen or change; specific, time-bound projects to complete; or external resources to access. We'll also address specific structures to help support success. 

While this possible list may sound daunting, remember that you choose each of these items, with guidance from me, and that we run them through a commitment lens prior making final, prioritized choices. (The last thing anybody needs is more low-commitment items on their action list!) Then, in between sessions, you are responsible for following through on your choices, and keeping an open, observant stance along the way.

Most on-going sessions share a basic four-step flow:

1. How Are You – Really? 

2. Progress Check.

What have you accomplished since our last session? What have you noticed? What have you learned? What has unfolded that will effect today's agenda, and/or your long-term agenda? 

3. Work for Today:

What is your agenda? Sometimes we'll focus on long-range, big-picture questions, and sometimes we'll wrestle with immediate challenges. While the choice of each session's agenda is yours, part of my job is to help you keep the wide, long view that brought you to coaching in the first place. 

4. What's Next?

What will you focus on before our next session? You might choose questions for reflection, action items (projects), habits to initiate or strengthen, focuses to hold, or outside resources (such as reading, or key conversations) to utilize. We create a series of possibilities together: I frequently make suggestions, but the ultimate commitment to specific choices is up to you. 

Find out how student coaching can improve your life at school, help you set goals for yourself, and develop the skills you need to achieve what you want out of life.

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