One-to-one coaching is rewarding, but it's also exhausting, time consuming and often leaves you scrambling to find additional clients just to keep your pipeline full.

Many coaches are now realizing that focusing solely on one-to-one coaching for income isn't a profitable way to grow a coaching business. You're probably in the same boat. It's now time for you to coach less and earn more.

Group coaching over the phone can be a rewarding income stream for coaches. You can help more people in less time, yet make more money than you ever could doing one-to-one coaching.

Here are 5 ways to create a group coaching program that sizzles and helps you to grow your coaching business.

1. Focus on your clients pain points. People want results, not fluff. Help your target audience solve one particular problem through your group coaching program and youll have a higher chance of filling your program every time you hold it. For example, if youre a business coach, you can help entrepreneurs in the start-up phase put together a strategic plan.

2. Design a course outline. This helps you to know what lessons and exercises youd like your participants to complete each week. You can include learning objectives, homework assignments and activities that you want participants to take part in.

3. Decide on how youll deliver your program. There are so many technology options available and theres no limit on what you can use to bring your participants together. However, to maximize their learning potential and to grow your coaching business its important to choose the technology that your target audience is familiar with. For example, trying to deliver your program using vSkype when your target audience is baby boomers may be a lost cause. Instead, opt for the telephone with this group.

4. Decide on the length and duration. Typically, group coaching programs are between 4- to 8-weeks in length and are scheduled weekly for 60- to 90-minutes. What you decide on will depend on the topic and the number of participants.

5. Make your program interactive. A group coaching program is not a university lecture. People make changes in their lives, businesses or careers when they are taking an active part in the lessons. Aim to provide an environment where theres a lot of discussion and interaction. This way, youll receive valuable information to add to future versions of your program and participants walk away feeling like theyve accomplished something.

Launching a group coaching program is a perfect way to offer your target market another coaching package thats less expensive and less demanding compared to private coaching. Coaching many people at once will help you to double even triple your coaching income and help you to stop trading your time for money.

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Leesa Barnes

An Internet maverick with a solid technology background, Leesa Barnes helps businesses use podcasting to drive search engine traffic to their website and build profitable relationships with their customers.

She is co-author of Jump Start Your Podcast and she comments on podcast optimization techniques in her blog and podcast called Podonomics.

Leesa spent the last 12-years in the Information Technology field, most recently at Sun Microsystems. With tech-savvy and street smarts working in her favor, Leesa quickly mastered the secret to quick, effective marketing on the Web and used this information to launch Savia Lane, her most successful web venture to date.

Through Savia Lane, Leesa has afforded women entrepreneurs the resources, confidence and technological tools needed to take their expertise into the Web arena and start making money on their own terms.

Leesa is a podcaster, speaker and author and in her spare time, she officiates basketball games, watches Battlestar Galactica and plays with new technology gadgets. Her favourite season of the year is winter because of her 9-year obsession with skiing.