Inside Coaching #4: “Everyone believes that coaching sessions should be live, so why is Wave changing the paradigm?”

Hello out there ツ

I’m back today to keep on digging into coaching - answering your questions and sharing my insight.

Over the last few weeks we’ve touched on what professional coaching is (cf Inside Coaching 1), looking at the main factors that restrict equal access to coaching for 99% of you (cf?Inside Coaching 2), and decrypting what’s behind a great coaching relationship (cf Inside Coaching 3).

Today I’d like to keep the ball rolling and take on something pretty big with my next question: if everyone believes that coaching sessions should be live, why is Wave changing the paradigm?

It’s definitely a great question and raises the topic around our cultural vision of the practice. Of course, coaching is synonymous with live sessions, yet this also comes with limitations. So in order to open access and offer long-term solutions, Wave is expanding the boundaries of the industry and building a new standard in coaching.

Like with most professional services, there is an expectation that coaching should take place in a 1:1 setup. Live coaching is indeed powerful, and a lot can happen between a coach and their client during a session. Pheromones are exchanged, body language is observed, and attention is paid to both the said and unsaid.

Personally, I don’t think anything will ever replace this type of coaching. But we also know that it comes at a cost. A high cost.

Finding the right coach, with the right availability is a challenge on its own. And once you’ve found them, several factors make it impossible to maintain the practice over time. A single person can never be infinitely knowledgeable and correspond to your ever-changing challenges and needs. Not to mention the restrictive pricing. To sum it up, live coaching simply isn’t sustainable for most of us.

And that’s where Wave comes in, offering a unique approach to coaching for all: written coaching conversations.

And far from depleting the quality of the coaching, this frame actually allows us to raise the bar by opening the floor to new possibilities with their own set of benefits and advantages:

• Confidentiality & Privacy

Encrypting our interactions and pseudonymizing our clients' names, Wave goes beyond the traditional coaching setups and builds a relationship based on openness and trust. Providing a safe space for clients to open up without holding back.

• Expertise & Availiability

In Wave’s coaching conversations, instead of being coached by a single person, you benefit from the unparalleled knowledge and unlimited availability of being coached by a team. One-to-one becomes one-to-many, supporting you whenever, wherever and however you need.

• Consistency & Affordability

At Wave, we believe that coaching isn’t a short-term solution. Brief coaching stints may offer an illusion of progress over a compressed period, but that feeling is often short-lived. Wave is in with you for the long run.

Because like any professional athlete or musical virtuoso knows, there’s power in ongoing practice and long-term commitment to progress. And Wave offers high-end support at a price that makes a long-term coaching journey viable.

• Progress & Data

The written word holds massive untapped potential for coaching. Our coaching conversations provide a filter, changing how information is used and interpreted. And by archiving our interactions, we see our clients in the context of their history, making connections between content shared last week or last year.

Allying this content with data, we can zoom in on things like word and concept repetition, as well as identify progress in a way that’s palpable and measurable - something which is much more complicated with traditional coaching.

I’m for an inclusive approach where all stakeholders can benefit from Wave. Clients. But coaches too. Wave is offering new coaching possibilities and is expanding traditional live coaching sessions’ frontiers and possibilities. Wave won’t replace live coaching, and it isn’t meant to. Live coaching brings things to the table that Wave simply can’t. But Wave can enrich live coaching and empower it for everyone. I’ll talk more about that very soon.

The long story short is that Wave’s goal is to build something complementary: a new standard of excellence that takes coaching out of the box, makes it accessible to the wider public and even more powerful for all coaching parties. Turning live coaching into lifelong coaching.

So if you’d like to try?Wave?and test the power of our written coaching conversations, please?like and comment?and I’ll be happy to gift you 3 months of coaching at a discounted price ツ

Next week’s?Coaching Insight?#5 - See you thereツ