Telephone coaching is especially justified when there is an urgent need for coaching and it is not possible to meet, for geographical or temporal reasons.

I offer telephone coaching, either as a course consisting exclusively of telephone coaching, or as a course, varying between personal coaching and telephone coaching.
The benefits of telephone coaching are:

That, for example, in the evening hours you can discuss the focus points and issues that are acute.
telephone coaching is flexible, and takes into account that there is a geographically longer distance between the coach and the focus person.
And the absolute best thing about telephone coaching is that an emergency situation can be coached within a short time.
The advantage of telephone coaching is that when telephone coaching is used as a follow-up to life coaching, career coaching, parcoaching or stress coaching, yes then the coaching can take place over a possible 30 minutes, and can save time, while sharpening the focus and strategies.

Depending on who you are and what the focus points are, there may well be disadvantages to telephone coaching. As with any other aspect of life.

• Some people think that it is superficial or not serious enough to use coaching over the phone.
• Some believe that telephone coaching does not commit in the same way as personal coaching.
• Some believe that the contact over the phone is nowhere near as intense or deep as with personal coaching.

I leave it up to the individual to decide whether he or she will use telephone coaching. In particular, I think the acute aspect is unique, as there is usually a waiting period of several weeks for coaching with us.
And that telephone coaching is fine in terms of follow-up, precisely because there is not necessarily a long time to set aside for a follow-up on a course that is well underway.
In addition, telephone coaching is unique when coaching is needed, and you yourself are a resident of any. Zealand, but would like to use coaches for example in Jutland ..

I hold weekly telephone coaching.
Not at specific times but as Ad-hoc assistance.
Coaching is calculated based on the number of minutes. Typically, it is collected over a period of five or ten times, and where an invoice is sent by agreement.

Telephone Coaching, examples of telephone coaching.

Telephone coaching and the themes, focal points, like coaches, will obviously vary.
There is a predominance of focus points on the theme:
“Making decisions / making the right choice”.
A few examples of phone coaching to make this clearer.

A telephone coaching was about a younger man, who was very competent at his job, feeling immense pressure that he had been told that he would have to make time registration in the future. In the telephone coaching it emerged that he could not manage to work with these time registration forms at all, and in the acute situation he had, with his own statement, “been struck by the feeling that he did not like this, and then he could just as well well resign ”. But on the other hand, it also became utterly unmanageable to lose the very good salary, so he felt trapped in a dilemma. For him, the dilemma was that he should state times for when he started and when he stopped working, and that he felt such great displeasure at this because he felt that it testified that the management did not trust him and just wanted to monitor him.

In telephone coaching, he was, among other things. asked the question: have you considered whether there could be other reasons for time registration than wanting to monitor you?
After a long pause for thought, he came up with several answers that surprised him. And one of the answers was that time registration could also be an opportunity to ensure that employees did not work more than they should, and thus prevent burnout, etc.

When the intent of time recording became nuanced and he suddenly could see a different intent than the one he had initially concluded, the whole situation changed.
And he came to the conclusion that noting when he started and ended was a very small thing. He came to the conclusion that it was that it was a form he had to fill out that tormented him. And he even suggested that he would ask his boss if he could not just email to a secretary what time he started and ended, and that the secretary could then fill out the time registration form for him.
The first telephone coaching thus ended at the point that he himself would approach the boss and ask for secretary assistance.
We agreed to follow up 3 days later, and when he called again, he happily told us that the matter was now at an angle, that he should just email a secretary, and since he was sitting at a computer all the time, this was no problem. Actually, he was a little ashamed that he had thought such drastic thoughts about resigning, etc., and we laughed at how quickly a situation can change when some good questions are asked.

Another phone coaching was about communication.

A man called up and described that his wife seemed withdrawn and that she had repeatedly failed to answer him when he told her that he loved her. He described her repeatedly saying that he should leave her alone and he was afraid that they were approaching a divorce and he would not divorce.
In the telephone coaching, we talked about that he did not know at all what the situation and the changed behavior was about. He realized that he had just made a lot of conclusions in his head, and when I asked him if he had known of other situations, for example from his job, where he felt unwelcome, he immediately listed 5 situations. And said: yes, this is completely reminiscent of the situation with my boss. I ask and ask him, but he only gives me half answers and then I can stand there, not knowing what is right or wrong to do.
In the telephone coaching, we therefore talked about what opportunities there were to understand the situation and the ways in which he asked questions.
And he realized that instead of waiting for answers, he himself could do much to explain his own situation and ask open-ended questions instead of closed ones, so that the people he spoke to had to give him more in-depth answers than a yes or a no.
The first telephone coaching ended with him wanting to practice asking open-ended questions, because he realized that many times, privately as well as professionally asked questions such as:

Does it have anything to do with me?

Is it that you do not have time, something I have a share in?

Can I do anything to change the situation?

Etc.
So questions, closed, that can be answered with yes or no.
And just this simple little tool that would be able to help him, privately as well as professionally, would enable him to gather far more information before he began to conclude the worst case scenarios.
The second phone coaching therefore revolved around some of the answers he had received.
His situation in the relationship was quite critical. His wife did not know if she would continue, but he had found out that she was not receptive to talking to him, and therefore this telephone coaching number 2 was precisely about dressing him to consider his own values ​​and talk to the wife about this.
And thus telephone coaching becomes a useful tool, precisely because every telephone coaching ends with a summary and concretization of what he can now set up.
And do in practice.

A manager called me.

He was confused as to whether he should hire a new employee.
The employee had all the competencies that the manager needed, but there was something he could not define. We did not have much time available, because the manager called me during his lunch break, and he had to let me know after lunch whether this employee should be hired or not.
The question that clarified the situation completely for the manager was the following question. Let’s say you can move forward in time, purely hypothetically, and can stand in a future point in 1 month and look back on that day. Let me know how it feels from this point if you have hired that person, and let me hear how it feels from this point if you have not hired that person.

And then it became clear to the manager that he would not hire this employee.
Because that he could see the aspect that he could not see in the present situation. This employee had flattered him, but had also expressed that he needed to discuss situations if he disagreed with the management, etc. And the manager saw from this future point of view that there would be many, and unfinished discussions that would move too much by the basic values ​​that were in the company.

And then it became clear to the manager that he would not hire this employee.

Because that he could see the aspect that he could not see in the present situation. This employee had flattered him, but had also expressed that he needed to discuss situations if he disagreed with the management, etc. And the manager saw from this future point of view that there would be many, and unfinished discussions that would move too much by the basic values ​​that were in the company.We followed up on the telephone coaching a week after.
We followed up on the telephone coaching a week later. The manager was again confident and accommodating. And described with joy that it had given him a lot to move mentally into the future and look at situations from this point. And that the management team had stood together and collaborated to find out how they could better delegate the tasks that were needed at the time.

The telephone coaching lasted only 15 minutes, and the positive outcome was that the leader was clarified and knew what he wanted to say as an argument to the rest of the management group.

Thus, themes, focus points, can be very varied within telephone coaching.
It does not have to take that long to come to a clarification, which in turn allows one to act in the situation.

To act so that one does not just re-act, gives the feeling and state of overview and control that we as humans need.

If you need a telephone coaching and you estimate that it will be easier for you than getting to my practice, you can contact me to set a time.

Telephone coaching is settled in the way that the focus person calls me. And based on the number of minutes, a price is set, which is then credited to my account.