Having data and communication all over the place can make you feel unproductive and, at times, anxious.
I know because this is how I felt when I started coaching, but with Basecamp, I was able to tame and have a single source of truth.
Transcript
Over the weekend I was actually thinking about the way I work.
I know it's the weekend, we shouldn't work etc, but you know when you work for yourself this is kind of what we do, right?
I realized that being a consultant, I haven't been a consultant for the past 28 years, 30 years, I've kind of honed how I work with my clients and it works really really well.
Nothing falls through the gaps, everything's great.
But now coaching, when I started coaching about a year and a half ago or so, I had to change my mindset.
There is a slight difference between coaching and consulting.
Not necessarily the work they do but the way you interact with your clients.
Well this is how I found for me anyway.
With consulting effectively I went in, did the work, communicate with the clients, left and I'm there for help.
And it was usually via email.
When I'm consulting I effectively give homework to my clients.
And to do that in a way to have it all in one place, I mean in the past some people use messenger, some people use email, phone etc, but all of these ways of communicating, things gets lost, things go through the cracks and you kind of lose things and that's what I found when I first started it.
So I was looking for a way of making everything, basically having a single source of truth.
So when I am communicating with my clients, when I'm coaching, we have one place to go to.
It's not over SMS or phone calls or anything.
If it's urgent then obviously someone would probably call me or so.
I haven't had that many.
In fact I haven't had no calls.
I try not to use calls.
I have emails mainly.
I try to do everything via email but when I use Basecamp I actually make sure I set up a project where I'm communicating with my clients when I'm coaching them or consulting now actually within Basecamp within that one place.
So everything is in one place.
It makes things so much easier.
And again going from being a consultant to a coach, even though you're kind of doing the same work, it isn't but you kind of are, you're still working with people and communicating with them.
Coaching I found for me when when I'm doing what I'm doing is slightly different and it works so much easier, so much better.
So I'm wondering how you guys do it if you're a coach or a consultant.
Let me know how you work with your clients because I'm really interested in to see how other people work not just give you information about how I work.
So if you if you could let me know that would be great and if you need to help with your system setup etc let me know.
Anyway have a great day and I'll see you in the next video.
Ciao.