You can only sit in so many chairs. When your 1:1 calendar fills up, your income stops growing even though demand keeps climbing. The usual fixes are raising rates until clients flinch, or working more hours you don’t have.
A group coaching offer breaks that ceiling. You deliver the same transformation to eight or twelve people at once, which means more revenue from fewer hours and a warmer community for your clients. This prompt turns your existing 1:1 work into a structured group program, and by the end of this page you’ll understand why each piece is built the way it is, so you can adjust it for any niche.
When to use this
- Your 1:1 calendar is full or nearly full and you want to grow income without adding hours.
- You keep teaching the same lessons to different clients and sense it could be a group.
- You want a lower-priced offer to catch people who can’t afford your 1:1 rate.
- You’re planning a launch and need a clean structure, pricing tiers, and a checklist.
- You have a waitlist and no scalable way to serve it.
The prompt
Copy this whole block into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini:
You are an offer strategist who has helped hundreds of solo coaches productize their 1:1 work into profitable group programs without burning out. You think in terms of client outcomes, capacity math, and clean positioning.
Before you design anything, ask me up to 3 clarifying questions if any of the context below is vague or missing. Otherwise, proceed.
CONTEXT
- My niche: {{NICHE}}
- My current 1:1 offer and price: {{CURRENT_OFFER}}
- Who the group program is for: {{IDEAL_CLIENT}}
- The core result I reliably create: {{CORE_RESULT}}
- My capacity (group size, call cadence, length): {{CAPACITY}}
- Rough price range I have in mind: {{PRICE_COMFORT}}
TASK
Design ONE group coaching offer I could launch, structured as:
1. Offer name and a one-sentence promise (the transformation, not the features).
2. Program structure: number of weeks, call cadence, group size, and what happens between calls.
3. A week-by-week or module-by-module outline mapped to the core result.
4. Three pricing options (a single price, a payment plan, and a premium tier with a 1:1 element), with a one-line rationale for each.
5. Who this is NOT for (one or two lines) so it stays focused.
6. The single biggest risk to this offer and one concrete way to de-risk it.
CONSTRAINTS
- Keep the structure inside my stated capacity. Do not invent more calls than I can deliver.
- Price within or just above my comfort range; if you go above, justify it in one sentence.
- No hype language, no fake scarcity, no invented testimonials or statistics.
- Use plain, concrete language a tired coach can act on tonight.
End with a 5-step launch checklist I can start this week.
How to customize it
Replace the six {{VARIABLES}} before you send it. The more specific your inputs, the more usable the offer.
| Variable | What to put | Example |
|---|---|---|
{{NICHE}} |
Your specific coaching niche | career coaching for mid-career women in tech |
{{CURRENT_OFFER}} |
Your current 1:1 package and price | a 12-week 1:1 package at $4,800 |
{{IDEAL_CLIENT}} |
Exactly who the group is for | senior engineers stuck at the same level for 2+ years |
{{CORE_RESULT}} |
The outcome you reliably create | a clear promotion case within 90 days |
{{CAPACITY}} |
Group size, call cadence, length | 8-12 people, one 90-min call per week, 12 weeks |
{{PRICE_COMFORT}} |
The price range in your head | $1,500-$2,500 per seat |
See it in action (full example)
Here is the exact prompt, filled in for a career coach. This is the whole input, nothing hidden:
You are an offer strategist who has helped hundreds of solo coaches productize their 1:1 work into profitable group programs without burning out. You think in terms of client outcomes, capacity math, and clean positioning.
Before you design anything, ask me up to 3 clarifying questions if any of the context below is vague or missing. Otherwise, proceed.
CONTEXT
- My niche: career coaching for mid-career women in tech
- My current 1:1 offer and price: a 12-week 1:1 package at $4,800, six 60-minute calls plus Voxer access
- Who the group program is for: senior engineers and managers stuck at the same level for 2+ years
- The core result I reliably create: a clear promotion case and the confidence to ask for it within 90 days
- My capacity (group size, call cadence, length): 8-12 people, one 90-minute group call per week, 12 weeks
- Rough price range I have in mind: $1,500-$2,500 per seat
TASK
Design ONE group coaching offer I could launch, structured as:
1. Offer name and a one-sentence promise (the transformation, not the features).
2. Program structure: number of weeks, call cadence, group size, and what happens between calls.
3. A week-by-week or module-by-module outline mapped to the core result.
4. Three pricing options (a single price, a payment plan, and a premium tier with a 1:1 element), with a one-line rationale for each.
5. Who this is NOT for (one or two lines) so it stays focused.
6. The single biggest risk to this offer and one concrete way to de-risk it.
CONSTRAINTS
- Keep the structure inside my stated capacity. Do not invent more calls than I can deliver.
- Price within or just above my comfort range; if you go above, justify it in one sentence.
- No hype language, no fake scarcity, no invented testimonials or statistics.
- Use plain, concrete language a tired coach can act on tonight.
End with a 5-step launch checklist I can start this week.
And here is the complete output the model returns:
A quick note before I lock this in: I built the outline around your real capacity (one 90-minute call a week for 12 weeks, 8-12 seats), so nothing here adds hours you didn’t sign up for.
1. Offer name and promise
The Promotion Path — In 12 weeks, you’ll walk into your review with a written promotion case you believe in and the words to ask for the role you’ve earned.
2. Program structure
- 12 weeks, one 90-minute group call each week (your stated capacity).
- Cohort capped at 12 so everyone gets airtime; minimum 8 to keep the room energetic.
- Calls split into a short teaching block, a hot-seat coaching block (2-3 members each week), and an action commitment to close.
- Between calls: one focused homework task per week and a private channel (Slack or Voxer) for questions and peer feedback. You answer in two 20-minute windows a week, not on demand, to protect your time.
3. Week-by-week outline (mapped to the core result)
- Weeks 1-2 — Baseline: name the level you’re stuck at and gather evidence of impact you’ve already had.
- Weeks 3-4 — The case: turn that evidence into a one-page promotion document in your manager’s language.
- Weeks 5-6 — Visibility: a 30-day plan to make your work seen by the people who decide.
- Weeks 7-8 — The conversation: script and role-play the ask, including pushback and “not yet” responses.
- Weeks 9-10 — Negotiation: scope, title, and pay, with your walk-away and your floor.
- Weeks 11-12 — The ask and the debrief: members make the request and we troubleshoot real responses live.
4. Three pricing options
- Pay in full: $1,950 per seat. Sits in the middle of your range; clean, low-friction, and well below your $4,800 1:1 so it never cannibalizes it.
- Payment plan: 3 monthly payments of $725 ($2,175 total). The small premium covers the admin and rewards paid-in-full without scaring off people who need to spread it.
- Premium tier: $2,950 per seat (cap this at 3 seats). Everything in the group plus two private 1:1 calls with you for the people who want eyes on their specific case. Priced just above your range because the 1:1 time is your scarcest asset.
5. Who this is NOT for
Not for early-career engineers who haven’t yet led visible work, and not for anyone looking for a job change rather than a promotion inside their company. Saying no here keeps the room sharp.
6. Biggest risk and how to de-risk it
The biggest risk is uneven participation: a few members go quiet and feel they didn’t get value. De-risk it with a simple weekly action commitment posted in the channel, plus a check-in DM to anyone who misses two calls in a row. Visible progress from peers keeps the quiet ones moving.
Your 5-step launch checklist for this week: 1. Pick a start date 4-6 weeks out and a hard close-of-enrollment date. 2. Write a one-page sales page using the promise and the week-by-week outline above. 3. Email your 1:1 waitlist and past clients first; they convert fastest. 4. Open 3 free 20-minute “is this for you?” calls to pressure-test the offer and get your first yeses. 5. Set a go/no-go number (e.g. 8 seats) and a date to decide, so you launch with confidence instead of hope.
That is a full offer you could put on a sales page tomorrow, with pricing math and a launch plan already attached.
Why this works
Four LLM principles make this prompt produce something usable instead of generic. Learn them and every prompt you write gets sharper:
- Role priming. The opening line casts the model as an “offer strategist who has helped hundreds of coaches productize 1:1 work.” That single sentence pulls the answer toward capacity math and positioning instead of the vague “start a group program!” advice that floats around the internet. Always assign a specific role.
- Specificity in, specificity out. The model can only be as concrete as your inputs. A fuzzy
{{CORE_RESULT}}like “feel more confident” produces a fuzzy program. A sharp one (“a written promotion case within 90 days”) gives every week of the outline something real to aim at. Your outputs are capped by the quality of your context. - Constraints are quality control. The lines “keep it inside my capacity,” “no fake scarcity,” and “no invented testimonials” each remove a common failure mode. Telling the model what NOT to do is as powerful as telling it what to do, and it’s why the example respects your real schedule instead of inventing extra calls.
- Clarifying questions beat guessing. The “ask me up to 3 clarifying questions first” line lets the model fill gaps by asking rather than assuming. When your inputs are thin, this is the single biggest fix for a generic answer, because the model surfaces the decisions you actually need to make.
Do this now
- Copy the prompt above into ChatGPT or Claude.
- Replace the six variables with your real niche, current offer, ideal client, core result, capacity, and price range.
- Send it. If it asks clarifying questions, answer them honestly, that’s where the quality comes from.
- Take the week-by-week outline and the pay-in-full price, and start the 5-step launch checklist today.
Pro tips
- Map the outline to one client result you’ve already produced. Reverse-engineer the steps that got a real 1:1 client to the outcome; the program almost writes itself.
- Run it twice with different capacities. Try a 6-week version and a 12-week version, then pick the one you can actually sustain alongside your 1:1 load.
- Keep the “who this is NOT for” line. A focused offer converts better than one that tries to fit everyone. Let the model help you say no.
- Pressure-test the pricing. Ask a follow-up: “What objections will the $1,950 price raise, and how do I answer each in one sentence?” before you build the sales page.
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