{"id":1399,"date":"2012-05-18T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T18:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2012-02-02T15:00:46","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T21:00:46","slug":"your-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/your-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an excerpt from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.coachstart.com\/\">CoachStart Manual<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody loves a \u2018pilot\u2019 project, so here is one approach:<\/p>\n<p>Start with your network and get on the phone to HR people &amp; senior managers whom you know.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t know any, call your network and get referrals for these people.<\/p>\n<p>Give them your rough pitch and see if you can get to a meeting to discuss it further.\u00a0 A great offer is to do three staff members for three months as a \u2018pilot\u2019 project.\u00a0 If they get great results, you get paid, and a corporate testimonial.\u00a0 And \u2014 you start rolling coaching out to other key staff.\u00a0 If they don\u2019t get great results, then no fee is necessary, and thanks for your time.<\/p>\n<p>Or, if they don\u2019t want to bring in other people at this stage, invite them to trial coaching for themselves.\u00a0 They can do an Exploratory Session to set some goals and then decide if they want to trial three months of coaching. 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