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I think remote productivity coaching is a great idea. In particular, as an ADHD person, this sort of thing would be an excellent supplement for ADHD coaching. A
by geoelectric 10y ago
I think remote productivity coaching is a great idea. In particular, as an ADHD person, this sort of thing would be an excellent supplement for ADHD coaching. ADHD coaching generally includes productivity checkpointing, but it's considerably less frequent (weekly is common) than what you describe.
I'm not at all sure what I'd pay for this, but I'll throw out there that a good 1:1 ADHD coach is ~$100/hr. I wouldn't pay that for this, to be absolutely clear, since the same level of responsibility as a therapeutic service wouldn't be there and there are things an ADHD coach does that this service would not, but that gives some idea as to value.
Some random thoughts:
* There'd have to be a clear value add demonstrated over a reminder program and more typical self-check procedures like Pomodoro. Accountability is one, I'm not sure it's enough of one. People need to see a vision as to how to make their life better immediately.
* People with major procrastination issues for whatever reason do typically need a lot of handholding at the start to figure out how to organize to get past them. You mention this in your pitch on the site, but I can't emphasize enough that this is where the major value and challenge probably is.
* I'd be very interested in the qualifications of whoever was doing this. A basic outsource PA would probably not be sufficient for what you describe in the sense of adding value past what automated solutions could do. If it were, people would probably just use them for that.
* People who procrastinate also tend to wander off compliance with stuff like this. That may or may not hurt your bottom line (we also forget to cancel subscriptions :) ) but it might speak to the efficacy of your service. How would you address the core problem of keeping people engaged?
- sixhobbits 10y agoInteresting! I hadn't thought of it in the context of ADHD. For me, a person will always be more effective than an automated reminder. You can dismiss the reminder or ignore it. For a lot of people, lying to another person and saying "I'm working" when actually you're not is a pretty difficult thing to do. Doing the same to yourself or a bot is pretty easy. In terms of qualifications, I don't think that they're that important. It's more important to find someone who, in pop psychology terminology, has a high EQ. Some people are just good at 'connecting' with a stranger and making them feel good/motivated, and customers will again want to meet deadlines set with someone like this. So yes, you could organize the equivalent yourself through outsourcing, but I reckon some people would use this as a more specialised service where they don't have to explain the role of PA to the person they outsource, and they know that the PA is competent in talking and being encouraging. To keep people engaged, all the PAs will be really aiming to develop a solid relationship with each customer (I still keep in touch with my editor even though she no longer works at the publishing house). Thus the PAs are definitely going to be a lot more real than any automated solution (although long-term plans would be to partially automate a lot of their work!) Thanks a lot for the random thoughts - they're really helpful in clarifying my own random thoughts, and I'll probably use some content from your comment to flesh out the FAQ if that's OK :)
- geoelectric 10y agoNo problem--use what you find useful!