Coaching Tip: Making Use of Empty Time-Slots

Originally Submitted on 6/9/99.

Introduction

When you lose a client (and sooner or later you will), treat it as an opportunity. Here you have a gift of a half-hour that has been regularly scheduled and that is now free. What are you going to do with it?

The Coaching Tip

True, some coaches have sufficient waiting lists that they simply move a new client into that slot. Others, though, may at first be distressed at the loss of a client and the associated income. The most practical way to deal with this is to take it as an opportunity.

What are the things that you have been intending to do that have not been done? What bit of attraction or promotion work have you been putting off? What bit of long-delayed organization would simplify your day to day tasks? Schedule it for the half-hour that has just been freed up. Once you have started during that time, you will probably find the time to finish it even if it runs over thirty minutes.

The advantage of this practice is that you turn what might be experienced as a negative event into a positive opportunity, both psychologically and as regards use of time and energy. Without such scheduling, the extra time is likely to disappear, unused and unaccounted for.

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