Part of Coaching Engagements, the coaching delivery side of the platform.

Group coaching · included in your subscription

Group coaching that feels personal to every member, and runs itself for you.

Group coaching lets you work with many clients at once, but no member should ever feel like one of many. Here each member gets their own private app with your name on it, their own goals, habits and progress, and their own worksheets and check-ins arriving on schedule. You design the program once and run it for every cohort, and the group sessions, the breakout groups and the individual journeys all live in the same place.

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Running a cohort

A cohort has a start date, a number of places, a group chat and an attendance record.

Each cohort is a dated group with a name, a start, a finish and a number of places, and it has its own purchase link and QR code that you can put on your website, in your newsletter or on a slide at an event. Everybody who joins gets the same start day and the same finish day, regardless of when they bought. The cohort also has its own group chat, and attendance is recorded for every group session, so you and each member can see who was there.

A real number of places

When the cohort is full it stops selling, and anybody who arrives after that is pointed to the next one. So if you say there are ten places, there are ten places, and you do not have to invent a countdown to make people decide.

One schedule, every time zone

Schedule a group session once and it appears in every member’s app with their own calendar invitation, shown in their own time zone, with the video link next to it.

A group chat and an attendance record

The cohort has its own chat where members talk to each other and to you between sessions, and every group session records who attended. Each member sees their own attendance (e.g. “attended 5 of 8”) in their app, and you see the whole group’s.

Run the whole cohort from one program

Design the program once and run every cohort from it.

In our experience what wears coaches down with group programs is not the coaching, it is the delivery, i.e. sending the same emails, the same worksheets and the same reminders again and again, cohort after cohort. Here you set the program up once, and every cohort you run afterwards gets it delivered for you, personally addressed to each member, on the right day and in your words.

  • Every member sees their own journey, i.e. their tasks, their progress and their attendance (“attended 3 of 8”), and never anybody else’s.
  • Privacy between members. Members can see who else is in the group, but nothing else about each other.
  • Shared resources in one place. The group’s materials can be downloaded by every member, so nobody has to search an email thread for them.
  • The next cohort is a matter of setting a date. The program is already built, so your second cohort costs you the marketing and not the delivery.
Breakout groups

Longer programs generally work better when members also meet in breakout groups of three or four, e.g. as accountability partners or peer coaching triads. You name the groups and say what they are for, and the platform takes care of the rest:

Breakout group “Tuesday triad”, three members · “Peer coaching every second week, 45 minutes each.”
Each breakout group gets its own private chat, for its members and you and nobody else.
Give a breakout group an exercise in one step and it appears in each member’s own app, marked with the group’s name.
Book a meeting for one breakout group and only its members are invited.
What makes group coaching work

Members support each other, and you can see how each person is doing.

Breakout groups where members support each other

Split the cohort into groups of three or four for peer coaching or accountability. Each breakout group has its own private chat and its own exercises, so the members keep each other going between your sessions. Much of the value of a group program is the group itself, and this gives it somewhere to happen.

You see who is keeping up and who has gone quiet

In a larger group it is easy to lose track of the quiet ones. Your coach app shows you who attended each group session, which exercises each member has done, how their habits are going and what they have written to you, so you can reach out to the person who has gone quiet before they drop out.

Each member has a private space of their own

Alongside the group, every member has their own goals, their own journal and a private chat with you that the rest of the cohort cannot see. So people get the energy of the group and the privacy of one-to-one coaching at the same time.

Selling a group program to one company for its own people? That is team coaching, which adds a sponsor view and a progress report for the company.

Would you like to know more about group coaching in Coach Automator?

Book a discovery call and tell us about the group program you run (or the one you keep postponing). We will answer your questions and tell you honestly whether it is the right fit for how you work.

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