Spring House · Chapter 2 of 3

When the room is gone

Once the webinars worked, the next question was obvious. What does a coach need when the room is gone?

Service design

Online coaching

Onboarding

50

Coaches onboarded to online delivery

0

Extra rooms or headcount needed

1

New permanent service line

The challenge

The people who couldn’t reach group sessions couldn’t reach 1:1 coaching either. The platform was ready. The coaches were not, and many clients had never been coached remotely.

The process

I kept the coaching content the same and changed only the channel, so we could see what the format itself changed. Then I designed onboarding for coaches about reading a client through a screen, holding silences and building trust without body language. Every client’s first session started with a short orientation.

The outcome

1:1 coaching became available wherever the client lived. It became a permanent service line, built on the infrastructure we already had.

“The question wasn’t how to use the platform. It was how it feels to lose the room.”

Elina, Designer