The Top 10 Benefits of Email Coaching

1. Go Global: No more time-zone issues

For many online coaches, the issue of time zones can impact convenience for the client and/or energy levels for the coach.

(Anyone who has stayed up late to coach a distant client will feel the value of this one.)

With Email Coaching, these challenges disappear.

With the right parameters in place, both the client and the coach can honour their body clocks, schedules and time zones, which makes for a more convenient and elevated coaching experience.

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2. An Anti-dote to Overscheduling

In the modern world, there are few people looking to add more fixed appointments to their packed schedules.

With Email Coaching, there’s no need for appointments, or the hassle of finding a mutually-suitable time.

By offering Email Coaching, you create breathing room in your calendar, which benefits your lifestyle and wellbeing.

The same benefits apply to your clients, and this asynchronous coaching is becoming a premium option for exceptionally busy people.

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3. Effortless Content Creation

When coaching notes accumulate over the course of an Email Coaching relationship, these can often become ready-made content for online courses or marketing posts.

Over time, you naturally build up a library of written content, brimming with your unique wisdom and typical clients challenges.

As long as confidentiality is protected, these can easily be repurposed into a standalone offering, such as How To guides or a self-study programme.

They may even form the core content of a business-boosting book.

(This lucrative benefit is a topic I explore more deeply in the Beginner’s Guide.)

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4. A Safe Space for Openness & Expression

Many people feel more able to express their private selves more freely and openly via the written word. 

Writers and introverts, in particular, can benefit from the privacy of written correspondence. 

If you coach writers or introverts, you’ll likely find that they thrive in this quiet, considered and private format. 

And if you’re also more comfortable writing than speaking, Email Coaching can be a vehicle for your best coaching skills. 

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5. Time for Reflection. 

Email allows time for more considered answers. 

Coaches can pose a question or spark an idea and then let it ‘percolate’. 

There are times when the first thought is the best, truest, most instinctive – and there’s no reason why these can’t be relayed via email.

But there are also times when a more considered approach leads to better results.

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6. Journalling benefits

Written correspondence often leads to many of the same benefits as journalling. 

With written updates and responses, clients are able to vent, explore and crystallise the jumble of thoughts and feelings that arise during the creative process. 

It helps them to open up, and can even help to soothe the nervous system. 

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7. Language clues

With written responses, it becomes easier to notice the language a client uses, which can give coaches useful insights into how best to help and respond.

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8. Intuitive direction

My email coaching work often feels like an intuitive reading.

In the calm and quiet of a private workspace, we can more easily tune in to our intuition and sense inspired nudges as to which aspects to focus on or explore, as well as any suggestions, ideas and resources that would be perfect to share. 

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9. On demand access

How often do the inevitable wobbles and crises align perfectly with  a coaching appointment? 

With email coaching, clients can get all their concerns, questions and frustrations out of their head and into an email, as they occur. 

They don’t need to wait for the next coaching appointment to express what they’re going through.

And quite often, the mere act of describing the issue can help them see for themselves potential solutions and next steps to explore as they await a response.  

Again, the process of ‘venting’ – in the moment – can be incredibly soothing and therapeutic. 

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10. Optimum coaching

If this format is the best one for the coach, it will deilver the optimum support service for clients. 

When we work in our Zone of Genius, we do our best work, and our audience receives our highest calibre coaching. 

Even though many coaches thrive with in-person communications, there are equally those who really come alive and share their gifts with more excellence when they are working in the right format for their quieter or more solitary nature.