About CollegePlus!- Coaches

The Coaching Process

Coaching — What Is It?

Coaching can be defined as one-on-one mentoring between a coach and a student. The goal of a CollegePlus! coach is to help students excel in their studies and develop the motivation and skills that are important for future leaders.

Meet the CollegePlus! Coaches now. One of them may be yours when you enroll!

What Is a Typical Coaching Session Like?

A typical coaching session takes place by phone every two weeks and lasts 30–45 minutes. After discussing the priorities of the call, the coach will lead the student in a time of reviewing the progress made since the previous call. Any questions that the student has will be answered.

The coach will then lay out a specific plan of action and will assist the student in every aspect of implementation. Before ending the session, the coach will communicate clear goals based on realistic expectations for progress to be made between now and the next coaching call.

Sample excerpts from a CollegePlus! coaching call can be found in our Information Packet.

How Are the Coaches Selected and Trained?

Our coaches are chosen based on three criteria. They must:

Be dedicated Christians and proven teachers of others.
Be thoroughly familiar with the accelerated distance learning process through personal experience.
Possess strong verbal and written communication skills.

Once coaches are selected, CollegePlus! provides them with an intense training and certification process in which they learn the systems and processes unique to CollegePlus! The coaches also receive ongoing training and performance feedback from our management team and clients.

Feel free to check out our coaching team and read a short bio about each coach.

How Do We Assign Students to Our Coaches?

Coaches are assigned first by gender, then by availability, and finally by degree similarity and student/coach personality. CollegePlus! has a policy of assigning male students to male coaches and female students to female coaches. This allows for a deeper relationship to develop between the students and coaches.

While CollegePlus! works with a large quantity of students, our focus remains on offering a service of consistent quality.

Where possible, degree similarity between the student and his coach is taken into account. However, because CollegePlus! coaches have access to all the program’s resources, and to each other, they are capable of offering assistance to any student, regardless of their degree.

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