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Becoming a Life Coach - Introduction

Reasons for Becoming a Life Coach

Life coaches can come from a wide range of backgrounds and one person's motivation for becoming a life coach may be slightly different from another. Nonetheless, if you are thinking of becoming a life coach it is likely that:

Life Coaches - What Personal Qualities Help?

Life coaching is a collaborative enterprise between coach and client. As a coach you are focusing on bringing out the best in your client and empowering them to achieve important life changes or set and reach significant goals.

As a life coach it is likely that you will have and will be continually developing the following qualities and abilities (this is not an exhaustive list of life coaching abilities just an introduction!):

Becoming a Life Coach - Business Skills

If you are proposing to set up in private practice as a life coach running your own life coaching business, then in addition to the personal skills that are useful for life coaching as described above, you will benefit from learning skills in developing and running your business efficiently and effectively. Some of the areas which you will want to be aware of are:

Evaluating Yourself as a Life Coach

Have a look throught the above lists of personal qualities and business skills. Add to the lists with your own ideas about what is needed to become an effective life coach and to set up a successful life coaching business. Make a note of any items on your list which you think you do not yet fully have and against each of those items, specify ideas for how you can develop the skill or gain the missing ingredient, whether that be through research, training, peer contact, supervised coaching practice or other means.

 

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