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# How to Master Complimentary Coaching Sessions

[Julia Stewart](https://www.schoolofcoachingmastery.com/coaching-blog/author/julia-stewart)

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![Successful coach](https://www.schoolofcoachingmastery.com/hs-fs/file-14054899-jpg/images/thumbs_up_career_woman.jpg) **I've written a lot lately about how to build a successful coaching business without complex marketing systems or pricing structures.**

 

**What works best for coaches is to build business relationships one conversation at a time.** You need to build business relationships the same way you build personal ones: with sincerity and no 'hidden' agendas.

#### **The most important conversation for the coach and client then, is the one that cements their professional relationship.**

**I call it the complimentary coaching session.** If you're going to have a rockin' business built on coaching instead other activities, you need to master the complimentary coaching session. That's why we devote an entire 4-week module to successful complimentary coaching sessions in our [Coach 100 Program](https://www.schoolofcoachingmastery.com/coach-100-business/).

#### **Here are a few high points on how to give successful complimentary coaching sessions:**

- **Focus on the client, not on yourself.** Your nerves and even your desire to do a good job are all about you. Coaching is all about them.
- **Focus on expanding the client's possibilities instead of solving the client's problems.** Every great coach knows that problem solving is the least of your gifts.
- **Focus on the relationship and the potential relationship.** Help the client see what's possible with your coaching.
- **Give the client an experience.** Of themselves, the value of the coaching relationship and the potential outcomes of working with you.
- **Notice all the information that your client and your intuition are sending you.** This is how you recognize a good client fit.
- **If you and the client are a great fit, *invite them to work with you.***

**Focus. Give. Notice. Invite.**

 

**Those are the basic elements of successful complimentary coaching sessions.** Of course there are many more details and practice is the key to mastering this process.

 

**And master it, you must.** Without the ability to cement client relationships, you can't be a professional coach-preneur.  With this ability mastered, you're helping others, co-creating a whole new world and making a great living doing what you love.

#### **Have you mastered complimentary coaching sessions, yet?**

**The 4-week module on how to give successful complimentary coaching sessions that end with paying clients starts in one week.** As a reader of this blog, we're giving you a coupon code today worth 45% off the usual tuition for this module, just to say, 'thanks for reading'. There are a few seats left.

 

**Hear the demos. Ask questions until it's really clear.** Get lots of practice until you've mastered this key skill and start getting paying clients with less time and effort. That's what Coach 100 is all about. 

 

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