Coach Training and Certifications
The life coaching industry has witnessed a significant influx in recent years. It is currently a very lucrative industry with annual returns amounting to billions. It may seem like a lucrative deal and hence a good career path to choose but the query remains.
Can anyone become a life coach?
Well, the answer is both yes and no.
“Learning how to learn” specifically having a set of go-to learning strategies give you an overview of how to best assimilate this information and incorporate it into your life skills. As a life coach, health and wellness coach, or professional fitness trainer, it also gives you a template to understand where your clients, employees, customers, colleagues, and others might be blocking themselves from moving forward so that you can better influence them toward their results.
When you, as a Certified Life Coach, are able to guide your client to discover their true self or essence and finding their passion or life mission, you are creating the foundation and centeredness for all other topics of coaching content to be successful.
Coaching is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. With the growing competition, it has become necessary for you as a coach to stand out in your marketing efforts.
Discovering and updating what images the unconscious “thinks” about who we are as an individual either supports our self-esteem or it does not.
As Life Coaches, we want our clients’ internal image of self in both hemispheres to be current and accurate in portraying who they truly are in the present moment.
Then we decide where we want to develop new skills, understanding, update old beliefs, and from here we can develop our mission and passion for being.
As a Certified Life Strategies Coach or in any leadership position, the first step in creating change or making progress is precise and detailed information gathering. Getting the full picture of where your client is now and where they want to create a blueprint system that can be followed to build success.
In building rapport, it’s important for the coach to be in an appropriate state of mind and to have clear filters and strategies to build success. Your enthusiasm and confidence will be an example and inspiration for your client to follow.
The initial meeting with your client, whether by phone or in person, is the time to begin setting a foundation for the relationship, gather information about the needs and wants from your client’s perspective, and begin to create a blueprint for ease in attaining the client’s results.
Rapport is about aligning with another’s reality, listening respectfully, and beginning to create an atmosphere of openness and trust – a sense of safety.
As a new and veteran coach, it’s important to understand the natural way learning occurs. The brain-body system learns by small increments.
There may be a sudden awareness of a qualitative difference, for instance, water getting hotter and hotter until it becomes steam, or colder and colder until it solidifies into ice. And each molecule has to go through systematic step-by-step changes to make those differences.
The time it takes to change depends on the amount of effort and energy expended over time on the way to a goal and having an effective blueprint and tools for action. [Read more…]
As you develop your skills for being a Certified Life Strategies Coach, it’s important that you come from a grounded perspective with flexibility, persistence, patience, curiosity and creative thinking. In building relationships to create healing and success, the primary relationship has to be with yourself. Learning to be personally congruent is so vitally important to your success as a coach that this concept will be the focus of the first section of this course. By experiencing and incorporating the basic elements you will be using as a coach with yourself first, you then become a model for what you will be sharing with clients, employees, students, customers, and patients. The more solid you are in your beliefs and behaviors, the more you will be perceived as a competent guide and leader.
What is a Coach? 
Have you ever really been in the zone when you are speaking about something you love such as personal growth, fitness, nutrition or making dreams a reality?
It makes you feel great, right?
You may have also experienced times when you had less than optimal confidence. You may have had times when you weren’t quite sure what to say?
Have you ever been in the audience while an incredible speaker is sharing their message, and you are blown away with the power of the presentation?
And, have you ever thought… “I wish I could do that!”
Have you ever just wanted to feel more confident and come across well on a YouTube video or Facebook Live video?
Have you dreamed about hosting a podcast, YouTube show, or being an expert guest on a TV show?
What if there was a way for you to become more confident, come across to your audience as a credible authority and have the ability to move people into action?
You can enjoy all of this and more when you learn the art and science of professional speaking.
Regardless of how you coach, train, mentor or instruct; being a confident and qualified speaker gives you a huge edge on your competition. [Read more…]