Coaching

How One-on-One Coaching Works

Typically, we have weekly sessions over Skype and discuss your upcoming sermon. We might explore your content or organization, your use of stories, personal experiences, Biblical references, or aspects of delivery.

I’d like you to have your sermons recorded, preferably a video recording. You send it to me, I watch it or listen to it, and we review it briefly at our next session. We spend the rest of the time discussing the next week’s sermon. As we work together, we explore a variety of topics that either you or I might bring up, for example, becoming note free, using more humor, or being a more effective storyteller

There’s no contract, no minimum number of sessions. We’ll work together as long as you feel you’re getting value. Need to pause the coaching for a period of time for any reason? No problem.

The fee is $125 for a 60-minute session.

What you bring to the work: a Skype account, a way to record your sermons, and a positive, coachable attitude.

How Group Coaching Works

In group coaching, two or three ministers share a session. Each participant gets about 15-25 minutes of attention on their lesson. The primary advantages are that you learn from hearing me coach the others, you get additional input on your talk from the others, and it’s cheaper.

The main disadvantage is that on Skype, we have video for one-on-one work only. As soon as we add a third person, it shifts to audio only. If you wanted work on delivery, we would need to do that one-on-one. Otherwise, everything in the one-on-one coaching description is the same for group work.

You can either work in a group of ministers you don’t know, or you can create a group with your friends.

Session length: 60 minutes

Fee: $50 per person