Coaching for College Students
At one time or another, we have all heard someone nostalgically utter the words, "college was the best four years of my life". The truth is, college may very well be the best years of your life, but it can also be incredibly stressful. For most students, the demands of juggling a full course load, extracurricular activities, and a social life is overwhelming. But for some, as the work piles up and deadlines come and go, managing college responsibilities can quickly become debilitating.
Whereas high school most likely provided a rigid and structured daily schedule, college relies on you to create and maintain that for yourself. If organization, focus, and time management are not your strong suits, this task can pose quite a problem.
Working with a coach can help address the challenges of college life. You can expect the following benefits:
Whereas high school most likely provided a rigid and structured daily schedule, college relies on you to create and maintain that for yourself. If organization, focus, and time management are not your strong suits, this task can pose quite a problem.
Working with a coach can help address the challenges of college life. You can expect the following benefits:
- Weekly Coaching Sessions: The focus of sessions may vary from week to week depending on current needs, but often includes assistance with development of a concrete weekly schedule, review of progress towards ongoing assignments and goals, support and problem solving around specific areas of concern
- Accountability: One of the biggest adjustments to college life is the increase in independence and the subsequent decrease in accountability from parents, teachers, and other mentors who were likely guiding and supporting from closer range during high school. Utilizing a coach is a great way to keep students on track by providing a consistent, in-person presence to check-in, motivate, encourage, and support on a regular basis.
- Restored Confidence: The experience of struggling in college can be a huge blow to a student's self-confidence, especially those who are accustomed to performing well and entered college with high expectations. A coach helps students to get back on track by normalizing their experience, tapping into their inherent potential, and showing them that they can take control of their success.
- Enjoyment of College Life: College CAN be the best four years of your life, and by achieving an organized, focused, and balanced existence, it just may be
Coaching forAdults
By the time we reach adulthood, many of us believe that we should already be living productive and organized lives. However, if you were a child or teenager who struggled to plan ahead, complete tasks in a timely fashion, and keep your belongings together, then chances are those problems haven't magically disappeared.
Utilizing a coach can help you to prioritize tasks, develop better strategies and habits around time and household management, and assist with identifying and following through on professional and personal goals.
Weekly or bi-weekly meetings with a coach can help to address the following:
Utilizing a coach can help you to prioritize tasks, develop better strategies and habits around time and household management, and assist with identifying and following through on professional and personal goals.
Weekly or bi-weekly meetings with a coach can help to address the following:
- Work/Life Balance: As adults we often have a variety of competing demands - career, kids, bills, health, social life, household chores and maintenance. A coach can help you to identify ways of streamlining your priorities while still making time for yourself.
- Structured Organizational Planning: Many times as adults our lack of follow-through on projects and tasks is related to our inability to take the time to sit down and create a solid plan on how we are going to fit everything into our busy lives. Coaching creates a structured opportunity to sit down and focus on our goals.
- ADHD: The challenges faced by a child or teenager with ADHD change over time as responsibilities and priorities grow, but they don't disappear. A coach can be an effective way of addressing these changes and implementing strategies to maintain an organized, focused life.
- Life Transitions: A coach can be a great way to help generate the motivation and energy required to either make a large life change or adapt to one.