How to Close Your Coaching Conversations

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March 13, 2023

Best-selling author and coaching expert, Elena Aguilar, brings weekly tips, tools, and wisdom to educators with one goal: to help you thrive.

How our conversations end matters. A lot. In this episode, Elena provides 5 tips that will allow you to close your coaching conversations in a way that elicits positive emotions, allows your coachee to tap into their sense of power, and cultivates resilience.

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Episode Reflection Questions:

Elena shared that you want to craft an ending to your coaching conversations that allows a coachee to tap into their agency and their sense of power. How do you currently end your coaching conversations? To what extent is your approach allowing for this desired outcome?
Elena shared 5 tips, 4 sentence stems, and 1 strategy to close your meetings. Are there additional tips that you would add to this list based on your experience as a coach or coachee?
Your challenge for this week is to pick a few different closing strategies and/or ask your client about their closing preference. Which strategy, or strategies, will you try out? How will you gauge impact?

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