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Is Becoming a Life
Coach Right for You?
Have you asked yourself if you would be
better suited to another career? You might want to consider converting
your skills and knowledge into becoming a professional life coach. But
becoming a life coach is not for everyone. We will explore:
1. What
a Professional Life Coach does
2.
The unique characteristics of a successful Professional Life Coach
3.
What are the three ways to become a Professional Life Coach
4.
The benefits of being a Professional Life Coach,
5.
Conclusion
1. What does a Professional Coach do?
Life coaches are equal partners who assist their clients to become the
world's leading experts on themselves, and assist their clients to take
the actions necessary to achieve their personal, life, business and/or
family goals. Coaches focus their full energies and attention on their
clients, by becoming the totally objective, nonjudgmental, supportive
mirror into whom they really are and what they really want to do. Coaches
provide life options, new perspectives, encouragement, and concentrated
attention to give their clients the insight, and confidence to take life-improving
actions towards their goals.
2. What personal characteristics will you need
to succeed at being a Professional Coach?
There are certain personal and professional characteristics that are much
better suited for life coaching and are almost required to become a successful
coach. Here are the most important characteristics:
A. A professional life coach must be totally trustworthy and have and
maintain the highest integrity. Integrity is critical. A coach's integrity
must be real, genuine and constant. True and effective coaching will not
occur unless there is complete and deserved trust between the client and
coach.
B. A professional life coach must have a very strong natural love and
respect for other people. Coaches are equal partners, which can only
be achieved through genuine and full mutual respect. Coaches, who do not
respect themselves or others, develop attitudes. Coaches with attitudes
cease coaching and begin judging or imposing.
C. A professional life coach must devote their full attention and energies
on their client. Clients are always the center of attention. Coaches
must be you people and not I centered. Coaches do not seek or accept credit,
or fame for what their clients achieve. Coaches feel rewarded because
their clients succeed. People with the “gift to coach” have
a natural talent for focusing on others and have a genuine internal motivation
to assist others to prosper. Helping others succeed fulfills their ego
and life interests.
D. A professional life coach must have full control of and subordinate
their own agendas, biases, and desire to judge or criticize others.
Coaches must be able to make very objective observations and even more
importantly, communicate the observations in a very clear and truthful
manner to clients. Personal biases, agendas, etc. must be kept out of
the process, especially in presenting bias as objective observance. People
have biases, but coaches must involve their biases as rarely as possible
and only in an open honest way to their clients.
E. A professional life coach must control their desire to advise, control,
or manipulate their clients. The coaching process is like no other
in that the path or route to get to the end goals (where clients achieve
their goals) is not and cannot be known or organized in advance. The path
constantly changes depending upon the client, and any control or manipulation
of the client will, in essence, halt the coaching process. The thought
or practice of telling a client they "should" must be eliminated.
F. A professional life coach must have a keen ability to listen and
seek out the truth from their clients. Coaches must exert 100% effort
to listen to all aspects of what clients are truly saying and meaning.
A natural desire to tune into others is very helpful. One of the most
difficult things any human being faces is to be able to clearly express
their inner feelings and thoughts. It is very important for coaches to
not only seek the true inner feelings of their clients by encouraging
them to try to express their true feelings, but to actually discover what
their true feelings are.
G. A professional life coach must have the ability to communicate their
observations to their clients without any hint of expertise, or superiority.
Once the inner most and normally very guarded feelings of a client are
discovered, the coach must describe them to the client in a very supportive
and clear manner, without any hint of judgment.
H. A professional life coach must be strong and firm with their observations
and present the truth to their clients. Many clients seek and need
"accountability" from their coaches. This is another way of
asking for the continued presentation of the truth, without allowing the
client to talk around the truth. Coaching, in essence, can be called providing
true accountability with love.
I. A professional life coach must have excellent telephone communication
and relationship skills. Over 91% of all successful coaching is conducted
via the telephone. Telephone coaching is much more effective, efficient,
convenient, confidential and much less costly for clients.
3. What are the three methods to become a Professional
Life Coach?
1. Just call yourself a life coach. This method is the quickest
and it is full of pitfalls. It will take longer (approximately five years)
to reach a degree of consistent success. Unfortunately, some people feel
that coaching is so similar to their current profession that they can
call themselves coaches and learn along the way. However, this is rarely
true. The coaching process has different purposes, and requires different
skills and perspectives than any other discipline.
2. Attend one or more of the approximately
160 for profit schools that train people to become coaches. Training
people to become coaches is big business. The variety in coach training
schools is dramatic. A person can pay as little as $99 for a six week
home study course to over $15,000 for a two year program. The quality
of the training is difficult to discern and can normally make the selection
process overwhelming. We recommend that you thoroughly research the coach
training schools before you spend any money. The one location on the web
that provides a current list of the coaching schools is:
http://www.peer.ca/coachingschools.html
3. Hire your own life coach. Through coaching, you will discover
what your ideal career really is. If becoming a life coach is the ideal
move for you, you are already ahead of the game. You will be certain that
becoming a life coach is ideal for you and you will want to pursue it
with your full commitment. You will personally experience the wonders
of being coached. Being coached to achieve your coachable goals will provide
you exceptional insight into assisting your future clients to achieve
success.
You and your coach will develop your coaching practice to best suit your
newly discovered passions, priorities, talents, and spirituality. Your
coach will guide you to pick and choose the specific training that you
will need to complete your coaching skills requirements. You will have
an equal partner to assist you to do whatever it takes, but not more than
needed to become a successful coach.
If however, you and your life coach discover that your ideal career is
something other than coaching, you are also a winner. You will avoid wasting
your time and money to become a coach, when you will be much happier and
more successful in another career.
4. What are the benefits to become a Professional
Life Coach?
If you see yourself naturally fitting the characteristics listed above,
then coaching and you will form an ideal match. You will reap considerable
emotional and personal rewards from assisting others. Here are just a
few examples of the benefits you will receive:
A. Life Coaches do not have to spend more than 25 to 35 hours a week to
earn a significant income.
B. Life Coaches work best out of their home in a very familiar and comfortable
environment. Rush hour traffic is nonexistent and dressing up into corporate
uniforms is not needed.
C. Life Coaches can earn a very solid living, but should not expect to
get rich.
D. Life Coaches enjoy the terrific feeling each day of having contributed
something positive to the world.
E. Life Coaches are their own boss and are free from politics and responding
to the whims of bosses.
F. Life Coaches will be blessed with meeting a lot of very neat and interesting
people.
G. Life Coaches get to assist people to do good and positive things for
themselves, and will experience the joys and satisfaction of seeing their
clients improve their lives.
H. Life Coaches join one of the most enjoyable groups of people in the
world who would much rather help each other than compete.
I. The life coaching profession is a very credible and accepted profession
that appears to double in size almost every year.
5. Conclusion
Life coaches provide wonderful value to others. Virtually any person
in the world will achieve a whole host of extremely valuable future goals
and grow and improve as a person at the same time by connecting with their
ideal life coach. Becoming a life coach is not for everybody, but for
those special few who naturally fit the characteristics of a life coach,
the rewards will be outstanding.
Contact a life coach today to discover your ideal career,
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if being a life coach is your ideal position,
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In addition, what goes on between your TCC Coach and you is so confidential
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or her. TCC guards your privacy and confidentiality to the extreme.
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