10 Steps to Successful Coaching

STEP NINE

Maintain Positive Changes

OVERVIEW

Determining readiness for maintenance Techniques for resisting the "pull of the past" Changes to the coaching relationship during maintenance

 

In Weight Watchers®, when a person reaches her goal weight, she moves from a regular membership to a lifetime membership designed to help her keep the weight off for the rest of her life. She usually attends meetings less frequently and only has to pay a fee when she rises above her goal weight. The continued weigh-ins and potential fees inform her when she gains just a pound or two so the gain doesn’t go unchecked and turn into 20, 40, or 100 pounds and put her back where she started.

In coaching, there’s a phase similar to a Weight Watchers lifetime membership. ...