Mastery Lesson 26 – Plan Your Coaching Program

Using your 10 x 10 matrix as a guide, plan your coaching program, using the following steps:

1) Determine an optimal length for your program. The rule of thumb for this is: how many hours would it take to teach someone your system at the rate of one hour per week, with home work or action steps to help them implement, plus a few hours.

So..if you could see teaching someone your system or method in 10 hours – add a couple, and then convert that to weeks –

So..10 hours = a 12 or 13 week coaching program.

I highly recommend keeping your first coaching program less than 6 months long – 3 months (12 – 12 weeks) is great, 6 weeks works well if you don’t have a lot to teach yet.

2) Once you have determined the length, then use your 10 x 10 matrix to create a 10 week outline of what you would teach each week.

Once that is completed, add an introductory week, plus a summary week, and that will give you 12 weeks.

3) Decide which supplemental materials or methods you will use in the delivery of your coaching program – for example, supplementary books, mp3s, blog posts, forum involvement, etc.

4) Put all of this into one document – so that at a glance you can see the different parts of your coaching program.

This is your coaching program master plan!