This IQ Matrix takes you through the first life coaching session with a new coaching client. The mind map lays down an outline you can follow that helps structure your first coaching session. The map specifically breaks down the purpose of life coaching, client and coaching roles, the barriers to effective coaching, how to establish and build rapport during your coaching session, and how to leave your client feeling committed, motivated and inspired.

This IQ Matrix will guide you through key aspects of coaching that will help you work far more effectively with your client. The mind map breaks down attending strategies, listening and feedback techniques. It also outlines the importance of using effective questions that help you get to the heart of your client's concerns. In addition to this, the map also breaks down key things life coaches must focus on during a coaching session. Keeping these things in mind will help a life coach get a deeper understanding of their client wants, needs, and concerns.

This IQ Matrix will guide you through key aspects of coaching that will help you work far more effectively with your client. The mind map breaks down how to identify what a client wants, the barriers to client change, and how to best utilize clarifying questions. In addition to this, the map explores coaching assumptions along with a framework used for coaching. It’s easy to overlook some of these areas while coaching your clients. However, they are all of paramount importance and will go a long way toward helping you become an exceptional life coach.

This IQ Matrix will help you address the concerns your client has about their life and circumstances during your coaching session. The map shows you how to address those concerns in a resourceful, structured and creative way. The map specifically breaks down how to obtain a detailed account of your client’s story. It explores how to solve your client’s problems using metaphors. Using metaphors will shift how your client thinks about themselves, others, and about their circumstances. This, by itself, can become an incredibly transformative experience that leaves your client feeling empowered and upbeat. The map concludes by outlining how to awaken unconscious resources to help your client overcome their pressing problems.

This IQ Matrix explores how to work with your coaching client to overcome their problems and concerns. Specifically, the map helps you identify the obstacles standing between your client and their desired goals. It breaks down how to assess your client's tendencies towards failure. It walks you through how to identify the GAP between your client's current reality and their desired outcomes. Your first objective, as you work through this map, will be to ask your client a series of questions that will help you pinpoint where they are struggling to make progress as they work toward their goals. After which, the map delves into your client's failure strategy and the GAP assessment process.

This IQ Matrix explores how to work with your coaching client to overcome their problems and concerns. Specifically, the map walks you through the process of evaluating your client’s present reality, their habitual behavior patterns, learning preferences, and their success strategy. Your first objective will be to analyze your client's current behavior patterns. These patterns of behavior will help you identify areas of self-sabotage or areas for improvement  The map then walks you through how to gain a deeper understanding of your client’s success strategy. Understanding your client's success strategy along with their learning preferences will help you guide them down an optimal path toward resolving their problems and achieving their goals.

This IQ Matrix explores a simple yet very effective method you can use to help your coaching clients set effective goals. The GROW model is a framework used by life coaches to help guide their clients through the goal setting process. This framework, can, however, be used for self-coaching purposes as well. The mind map breaks down the purpose of using the GROW Model. It then breaks the GROW Model down into four distinct steps. These steps include getting very clear about your goal, exploring the circumstances of your current reality, taking into consideration all available options, and finally paving the way forward. This GROW Model framework for goal setting is the perfect companion to help you help your clients set more effective and empowering goals.

This IQ Matrix provides you with an outline of how to get the most from your staff through effective workplace life coaching practices. Every year life coaching continues to grow in the corporate sector. Executives and managers are discovering that a small investment in coaching their staff can significantly boost productivity, improve motivation, accelerate performance, and increase the company’s bottom line. Coaching certainly won’t help solve all your company’s challenges, however, it will go a long way toward raising performance standards across the organization. Specifically, this mind map breaks down a six-step process you can use to help you develop the understanding needed to successfully coach within a workplace environment.

This IQ Matrix will help you identify the most common mistakes that life coaches make while working with their clients. Understanding where and how these coaching mistakes occur will be of particular value for new coaches. However, even experienced coaches make these coaching mistakes. The mind map categorizes mistakes into several categories including perceptual mistakes, personal communication mistakes, personal approach mistakes, and mistakes related to setting client tasks. These mistakes are, of course, very easy to address. However, we first need to become aware that we are making them. Use the map as a handy reference poster to help you avoid making critical coaching mistakes.

This IQ Matrix explores common mistakes your coaching clients typically make that sabotage their progress as they work toward their goals. Anytime you feel that your coaching clients are getting stuck or unable to move through problems, then it could very well be a direct result of one or more mistakes outlined on this map. Addressing these mistakes and working through them with your client may very well provide them with the impetus and means to make positive and practical changes to their lives. This map, however, doesn't only outline the typical mistakes that coaching clients make. It also highlights various suggestions for working through these mistakes.