News
New Web-based Coaching Program
Released at No-Charge for ICF Attendees
PRINCETON JCT., NJ, OCT. 31, 2006 — CoachEase,™ a newly released Internet-based software program that helps business and life coaches improve their client communication and automate administrative tasks, was made available to attendees of the International Coach Federation 2006 International Conference at no charge today.
Aaron Blohowiak, designer and developer of the CoachEase service, explained that the three month no-charge offer is provided to ICF attendees as a market preview for the new service.
“We want leading coaches to both experience an exceptionally enhanced way to communicate with their clients and effortlessly manage the details of their practice,” Blohowiak said.
“CoachEase uses the power of the Internet to enable coaches and their clients to plan their sessions, and exchange information after their sessions. Unlike any other coaching software, a coach and client use CoachEase to communicate over the web and this has two main benefits,” Blohowiak explained. “It simultaneously improves coaching quality while reducing the drudgery of administrative tasks that are inescapably part of the coaching relationship.”
CoachEase streamlines coaching by:
Scheduling coaching sessions with email notifications and reminders automatically sent to coaching clients, automatically adjusting for differences when coach and client are in different time zones.
Creating, modifying, and reusing web-based forms with a variety of question types including: Likert-type scales, open-ended text fields, numeric scales for ranking, and more. CoachEase comes with several pre-made, totally modifiable sample forms.
Exchanging information with coaching clients via the customizable forms, branded with the coach’s logo and company colors; when completed, the submissions become automatically available to the coach.
Recording notes during a client session, with prior session notes visible for easy reference.
Tracking coaching clients’ over-arching goals and actionable to-dos.
Displaying details on-demand about key people in the coaching client’s life so the coach remembers who’s who.
Logging the time spent with individual coaching clients with reporting for certification requirements (reporting module to be released soon).
Sending follow-up notes to clients with the to-do items and significant information from current sessions, and links to forms for upcoming sessions.
Providing coaches with dashboard views of their practice including upcoming scheduled sessions and summaries of information that has been submitted by coachees or is due from them.
“Our goal in creating CoachEase was to free coaches from the chores associated with their practice: obtaining and storing information from clients, setting up sessions with them, and tracking certification progress,” Blohowiak said. “While making the processes much easier,” he says, “we also wanted to provide coaches with a much more attractive and intuitive interface. The other coaching software in the marketplace is so clunky and ugly. We wanted to bring modern business processes to coaching using web services.”
Blohowiak is providing coaches the opportunity to decide whether CoachEase suits them. Coaches attending the ICF conference can sign up for a free three month trial of the service, “no strings attached,” Blohowiak says, at the company’s booth #202. “You don’t even need to give us a credit card number,” he added.
Following the free trial period, subscription pricing is expected to be $27USD per month, with substantial discounts available for pre-paid annual plans. Re-branded versions of CoachEase that integrate a coaching school’s specific methodology are available as well.
“The service uses banking-level encryption for security,” Blohowiak said, “so coaching client information is always kept confidential.”
“We all know that backing up our data is important, but who wants to remember to do that all the time?,” Blohowiak asked. “With CoachEase, coaches don’t have to worry about it,” he said. “All their coaching data is backed up off-site every few hours on the same servers Amazon.com uses.”
An informational blog with tips and news about CoachEase is available at http://blog.coachease.com/
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