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Welcome! Your Life Coach E-Course

Life Coach Self-Assessment E-Course

Contents

Introduction

Understanding the Concept

The Role of a Life Coach

How Does Coaching Work?

Key Skills of a Life Coach

Do You Have What It Takes To Be A Coach?

Training, Options, Legal Issues, Regulations

What You Will Need to Start Your Coaching Business

The Income Streams of a Life Coach

How to Build Your Business?

Introduction

Does a Life Coach’s career attract you?

 Want to know more?

 Want to train to become one?

 Learn all there is to Life Coaching with the “Life Coach Self-Assessment” e-course.

The “Life Coach Assessment” E-course gives you all the answers on how to pave your way to becoming a successful Life Coach, guiding people to happier and more triumphant lives.

This e-course is comprised of seven modules, and incorporated within are several exercises and coursework.

Please keep each module on file since you may need to refer back to a previous module in order to complete your self-assessment.

Now we’re ready to get started.

Understanding the Concept

“All coaching is, taking a player where he can’t take himself.”

                          Bill McCartney

Life Coaching is not new.

Life Coaching as a profession started in the 1980s. Then, it catered more to executives or managers. Now, this profession has developed to cover a lot of areas from helping people choose the right career options to managing difficult personal or professional relationships.

But what is coaching all about?

As per The International Coach Federation (ICF):

"Coaching is an on-going partnership that helps clients produce fulfilling results

in their personal and professional lives. Through the process of coaching, clients

deepen their learning, improve their performance, and enhance their quality of

life. Beginning with the clients' desires, coaching uses reporting, exploring, and a

consistent commitment to move the client forward. Coaching accelerates the

clients' progress by providing greater focus and awareness of choice. Coaching

concentrates on where clients are today and what they are willing to do to get

where they want to be tomorrow."

As per The Progressive International Coaching Bureau (PICB):

"Coaching deals with the clients current life situation and the barriers that may be

preventing them from attaining their ideal life, whatever their ideal life may mean to them. This may mean losing weight, increasing their income, getting through a divorce or becoming more centered on God. Success is different to everyone and as a coach, one must always remember this."

If this was too much to grasp, let’s simplify the concept.

Coaching involves a professional partnership between a coach and the client.

 Coaches listen to their client’s problems or concerns, and then provide coaching through which the client determines what steps to take to overcome his or her problems and move ahead.

Coaches do not give advice, nor do they offer therapy. They simply act like a catalyst to help people achieve individual goals.

Through Life Coaching people live a better life as they get help in making the right moves, which they are not able to make on their own.

This does not mean that no one can work out things on their own. It rather means the opposite.

Everyone has some limitations, which directly or indirectly affect a number of areas in his or her life or how he or she looks at different situations in life.

These limitations or weaknesses, whether mental, emotional or psychological, create barriers and hold up personal development.

This is when a Life Coach comes in.

The process of coaching helps people break those barriers themselves and pave the way to achieving their goals.

A number of people correlate the work of a Life Coach to that of a psychologist.

Here is the difference:

A psychologist focuses on analyzing your past actions and getting to the root of the problem.

 A Life Coach concentrates on helping you to frame the right steps with the future in mind, in order to achieve your individual goal.

 A psychologist might offer therapy and advice.

 A Life Coach does not.

A very good analogy is that of a Personal Fitness Trainer.

Consider you are joining a gym. Your fitness trainer will first ask you what you want to achieve. Whether you want to:

Lose weight?

Lose fat?

Build muscles?

Build endurance?

Increase stamina?

The trainer will then see where you stand now in relation to your goal.

For example, if you want to trim down body fat, you will be asked to take a body fat composition test to measure the current body fat level.

You may have to take a fitness test and may be asked about present eating habits. All this is a part of helping you get nearer to your goal. The fitness trainer will first establish standards for you as to how much fat you intend to lose and over what period of time.

It is based on all this that he designs a plan of action for you to reach your goal.

Having done this, he also supplies you with the required backing and support in the form of constant encouragement and motivation. There may be many people who look towards reducing weight.

 But what they lack is the willpower and confidence to keep trying.

 The trainer’s job is to guide them through the difficult path towards their goal. He or she has to help the people achieve their goals more quickly and more effectively than if they tried by themselves.

A Life Coach can also help you with a different type of obstacle.

 Here’s a real life example.

Michelle and Roderick were married and leading a happy life together. Both of them were employed. Roderick was not very content with his job. He was looking for better opportunities.

As expected, he got an offer from an overseas firm. The position was just what he wanted. It was time for him to take a decision.

If he took the job he would be happy career-wise but staying separate lives, would their marriage survive?  He could not possibly be selfish to ask Michelle to leave her job. And if he let go of the new job offer, he would feel guilty of having given up a great chance.

Now this is what we call a fix!

·        What would you do if you were in Roderick’s place?

·        If you were a Life Coach, could you help Roderick to make a decision based on his situation?

Can you imagine how a client can improve their life when he or she makes the right decision, at the right time?

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Now that you have a sense of what it might be like to coach, we will begin tomorrow with the areas of life that a Life Coach can work on.

 Until then…

Best,

Rob Hilson

Entrepreneur, Coach, Mentor