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# Coaching structure

## [FOCUS, FOCUS, FOCUS: The Art of Keeping Your Client on Track](https://realbalance.com/focus-focus-focus-the-art-of-keeping-your-client-on-track)

![FOCUS, FOCUS, FOCUS: The Art of Keeping Your Client on Track](https://realbalance.com/images/800x600/AdobeStock_131967313_2_Medium.jpeg)

**Focus and simplicity...once you get there, you can move mountains.**



**Steve Jobs**



 



What keeps a coaching session from being as productive as possible?  While you can point the finger at a number of factors, **lack of focus** on the part of the client is often one.  Coaching sessions that meander, that drift off into tangents, down rabbit holes…

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## [Structure Is The Wellness Coach’s Friend: Seven Ways To Coach Better](https://realbalance.com/structure-is-the-wellness-coachs-friend-seven-ways-to-coach-better)

![wellness coaching graph](https://realbalance.com/images/wellness-blog/800x600/wiseuseoftime.png)

**Great coaching finds a balance between structure and spontaneity, customization, “dancing in the moment” and organization.** While some large coaching organizations err on the side of too much structure, using scripts and ridged protocols, some coaches “wing it” way too much. Listening to hundreds of coaching recordings, done with real clients, I’m continually amazed at how loosely many coaches go…

[Read more …](https://realbalance.com/structure-is-the-wellness-coachs-friend-seven-ways-to-coach-better)

## [Structuring Great Wellness Coaching Sessions – Part 2 Process and Progress](https://realbalance.com/structuring-great-wellness-coaching-sessions-part-2-process-and-progress)

Though every coaching session is unique, coaching sessions that follow a general structure are usually more productive. In our last [blog post](https://realbalance.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=437&catid=127&Itemid=6040) we showed how a coach can use structure by Co-Creating The Agenda for the session to get off to a great start.



**In that beginning structure we followed this basic sequence:**



• **Greet and Connect.** Small…

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## [Structuring Great Wellness Coaching Sessions – Part 3 Accountability and Support](https://realbalance.com/structuring-great-wellness-coaching-sessions-part-3-accountability-and-support)

![woman at desk with laptop](https://realbalance.com/images/wellness-blog/800x600/woman-desk-laptop.jpeg)

**This is the third of a three-part series on Coaching Structure.** In our [first blog](https://realbalance.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=437&catid=127&Itemid=6040) we showed how a coach can use structure by **Co-Creating The Agenda** for the session to get off to a great start. In our second blog – Structuring Great Wellness Coaching Sessions – [Part 2 Process and Progress](https://realbalance.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=438&catid=127&Itemid=6040) we explored how effective processing leads to…

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## [Ten Steps To Structuring Great Wellness Coaching Sessions](https://realbalance.com/ten-steps-to-structuring-great-wellness-coaching-sessions)

![hopscotch](https://realbalance.com/images/wellness-blog/800x600/hopscotch-tensteps.jpg)

**Wellness coaching clients show up for appointments desiring to make progress in improving their lifestyles and thereby improving their lives.** For as much as they want the session to be productive, it is easy for the client and the coach to drift together from topic to topic and finish up realizing that little has been accomplished. Sometimes a client comes…

[Read more …](https://realbalance.com/ten-steps-to-structuring-great-wellness-coaching-sessions)