Survey Software for Life Coaches

Life coaching is one of the fastest growing fields in North America, and plays a role in the lives of millions of people all over the world. While it may not be a mainstream profession yet, there are now thousands upon thousands of coaches, and each of them has developed their own techniques and adaptations to better serve their clients. Life coaching also involves a number of different tools. While tools do not define coaching, there are often handouts, games, the life wheel, and countless other tools that coaches integrate into their strategies, and using these tools the coaches are better able to put their clients on the right paths.

One tool that many life coaches use is the survey. That’s because surveys give the client the opportunity to learn a lot about themselves, and the coach the opportunity to learn more about the client. Surveys have quickly become one of the simplest and most valuable tools available today, because it can be customized not only for each specific coach, but also for each client.

Because life coaching is a newer field, most coaches are on a fairly strict budget. Indeed, the vast majority of coaches have little investment capital, and are working just as hard to find clients as they are to maintain them. It’s simply the nature of the business at the moment – many life coaches have other jobs, and coaching represents a second job or a hobby, simply because it’s hard to find enough clients to even support a full time position.

If you also spend too much money on your tools, you’re drastically cutting into your profits. But just because you can’t afford to spend a lot on your tools doesn’t mean that you can’t use quality software, or develop a quality survey. With online survey software like that of SurveyMethods, there are actually a lot of opportunities for life coaches to develop amazing surveys that can help benefit the client.

It starts with ease of customization. With quality survey software, you can create a survey in minutes using simple buttons, and immediately have a live survey that can be customized for clients, branded for your business, and collecting data. You can send the survey out via email, or make a link available to any client that wants to take it.

You can use the surveys to: Find a Person’s Individuality – Your surveys can be developed to find out more about a person and create a live report that the user can then view to see how they end up. For example, you can create a survey that scores how a person feels about their relationships and their job, and analyze the numbers to see which they value more. You can also create a live online report that can be shared with the client, which will improve client satisfaction.

Marketing – These surveys can also be a marketing tool. You can put a live survey on your website that users can fill out to find out more about themselves. They can then see a running report, either of themselves or of everyone that has filled out the survey, and see how they compare to the population.

Monitoring and Activity – Much of life coaching has to do with personal motivation, and how well you can keep people actively engaged in their lives. You can create for them a customized survey that they fill out every day or every week so that you can get updates on how they’re feeling, what they’re doing, and more. It allows you to track their progress even when they’re not with you, and the survey itself ensures that they’re motivated to continue to do the work that needs to be done to put their life back on the right path.

Online life coaching surveys also make the data more easily accessible and permanently stored so that you can access it at any time. You can also use it to view progress, and run analyses of either one individual or all of your clients in order to make sure they’re seeing real growth. There is even an email alert option that can be immensely valuable for those that have troubled clients.

This option can trigger an email alert any time a specific question is answered in a way that would worry you as a coach. For example, if the question is about a person’s happiness, and their answer is the lowest score possible, it can be set up to trigger an email alert that will be sent to you immediately, and you can use it to call the client and make sure that they’re okay, and ask them if they’d like any guidance.

Life coaching is not a tool-based service, but the way that it uses tools can have a big effect on how well they are able to both grow their business and meet their client’s needs. Surveys are not something that should be easily forgotten as a potential place for life coaches to thrive. If you’re a life coach that is interested in running surveys for your business, contact SurveyMethods today, or sign up for a free account to learn more about why our system can be so valuable for life coaches, and anyone in the coaching or psychology fields.