What is a Life-Coach – what do they do – do you need one?
What is a Life-Coach? What do they do? Do you need a one?
First question: What is a Life-Coach?
A Life-Coach is a person trained in helping people go through challenges that happens in life. They have ideas and tools that will help their student develop the skills to work through challenges and develop a result that leaves the student in a better place than where they started. Just a few years ago there was not job title such as a Life-Coach. When I first started working as a Life-Coach some 30 years ago, I was called a motivational coach, mental coach or sport physiologist. Since then, it has become a profession and there are many ways to get certified. I was certified as a Life Success Coach by the late Bob Proctor in 1998.
Second question: What do a Life-Coach do?
What a Life-Coach do is to empower the student to work through the issues and improve their life. Each Life-Coach have a different specialty and skill set, in order to get the result desired. It is up to the student to find a Life-Coach that can help them with their issue and help them get to a better place. Like in any industry there are tools and beliefs that goes across the board for all Life-Coaches. These overall beliefs are as follows; assess where their student is, access where they want to go, use empowerment and tools to get the student where they want to go. Helping the student grow, be, do and have more than they had before the encounter with the Life-Coach. There are many schools of thought in the Life-Coaching industry. Not all certified Life-Coaches follow the same training or even similar training. There are almost as many ways of doing Life-Coaching as there are certified Life-Coaches. I would suggest getting references before entrusting your life to a coach that may have the best of intention however may not be the best Life-Coach for you.
Third question: Do you need a Life-Coach?
There are many aspects to consider before answering the question and hiring a Life-Coach. The first thing to consider what do you need help with? Are you looking to change something in your life, or do you need an accountability person? A Live-Coach can indeed help with both those aspects.
Second thing to ask yourself is, what aspect of your life is it you want to change. Is it personal or business? There is a big difference between those two topics even if they do cross with some tools and ideas.
Personal:
1) Do you need help coping with an event in your life?
2) Do you want to improve your health (like your mind or body)?
3) Do you want to improve your relationships (with significant other, kids, family, friends)?
4) Do you want to improve society?
5) Do you want to improve your finances?
5) Do you want to improve your spirituality?
These are just a few topics that it could be that you want to improve. As you can see these are all very different topics and does each take a very different skill set to help you improve.
Business:
1) Do you want to improve your business mindset?
2) Do you want to improve your employer/employee relationship?
3) Do you want to improve your business (like plan, marketing, outreach to customers)
4) Do you want to expand your business
These are just some of the things that you could use the advice of a Life-Coach in business for.
Once you are clear on what you are looking for and needing help with you are ready to decide if you do indeed need a Life-Coach.
Conclusion:
Making informed decision is always the best way to go. You need to make some decision as to what you need and what you want to change before you look to hiring a Life-Coach.
This should give you some insights as to what to consider and what homework you need to do before looking for a Life-Coach.
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