More than just another medium. Online coaching is really something completely different. Online coaching is more intensive. This extra power comes from three sources:
- More brain activity. Online coaching draws more from your formulation and thinking skills. You actively find words and expressions for feelings and emotions, link things together. E-coaching, more than the traditional one-on-one talks, intensifies the way people use language and thinking, and therefore activates different parts of your brain. Therefore the effect of online coaching is strong.
- More contact. And more contact means more impact. the contact frequency in e-coaching is higher than in the traditional face-to-face coaching. This also makes online coaching more powerful and highly effective.
- More you. Because you can login in your own time and place you feel more free to speak your mind and give more personal input for the coaching process. Also, being alone with your screen, many people find it easier to show more of themselves, especially facts of feelings that are more painful to express in a face-to-face situation. That is why in e-coaching people easier come to their key issues.
Here we sum up the most important differences between online coaching and face-to-face coaching (F2F):
- the start-up phase in online coaching takes longer than in F2F coaching
- frequency of contact is much higher in online coaching
- online coaching, more than F2F, strongly depends on the clients thinking and language skills (ability to reflect, to formulate)
- online coaching only works when people are strongly motivated for change
- online coaching is easier to fit in a busy schedule, because of its largely independent of time and place
- online coaching is more closely linked to day to day life and work
- online coaching uses writing skills which are proven to stimulate change more strongly than talking only (F2F0
- online coaching makes it easier for people to open up and therefor it creates more intimacy in the coaching relationship
Novalogica online coaching: there where you are, on your time, your place, intensive, safe, always at hand…