Life Mastery Podcast 144 - Fitness Entrepreneurship: Communication Skills

As coaches we have a significant responsibility to guide our clients toward enhanced capacities and awareness. To do so demands communication skills and attention paid toward facilitating new understandings and meaning-making! (https://thedietdoc.com)

Do you have what it takes to shift your clients toward exploration that will help them develop into more complex human beings rather than just people who eat and exercise?

Kori & Joe discuss the communication strategies they teach their program owners how to implement for the best long-term success.

00:17 Intro
03:15 The place of non-verbal responses
04:30 Giving a reparative experience
04:55 The value of communication via phone/Skype/video chats
07:10 Ask clients for their preferred form of communication
07:50 Careful choice of words and phrases
08:20 How will your evaluative remarks be perceived?
11:20 "May I share with you what I am seeing?"
12:40 Coach toward capacity: Guide clients to develop skills, build resources, increase
capacities.
13:20 The clients experience is most important: Meet them where they are
14:20 Skill scaffolding
15:00 Interviewing to obtain necessary information is crucial
15:40 Summary:
Focus on your client's strengths
Provide direct, candid, kind feedback
Don't just say, "Good job!" Be specific.
Help them develop awareness; review behaviors
Coach toward capacity (Guide clients to develop skills, build resources, increase
capacities.)
Ask how they want to receive feedback

Thanks for visiting! Kori Propst, PhD, and Joe Klemczewski, PhD, merge their voices to create life-enhancing conversations and content you can use every day. Kori is the Vice President and Wellness Director of The Diet Doc, LLC—a health and weight-loss licensing company founded by Joe more than 20 years ago. Together, Joe and Kori help hundreds of Diet Doc Program Owners build industry-leading nutrition coaching platforms around the world. Now they’re bringing their talent to a daily podcast where nothing is off limits. Motivation, nutrition, weight loss, career, relationships, fitness entrepreneurship, and even guest interviews and features will be dissected and categorized for convenient listening or viewing. What happens when you mix 30 years of psychology, nutrition, physiology, social anthropology, and even literary journalism education with 40 years of business-building experience and almost 90 years (should I say that?) of combined real life? Let’s find out!

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