Life Coach – Beware of Unskilled Life Coaches

You may well have watched ‘The Cowboy Trap’ a TV programme identifying the antics of Cowboy Builders and the upset they leave on their unsuspecting customers. How or why on earth do people let themselves be conned by these rogues? It’s easy really, these cowboys might not be too good at building but they’re experts in the art of cons. However, don’t be fooled into think it’s only the building trade where this type of person operates; if there’s a con to be had they’ll be there waiting for unsuspecting customers to turn up and as sure as night follows day they turn up. Any trade, practice or service area that is a demand and the guidelines on the management of the professionals is a little woolly makes prime breeding ground for the cowboys.

Life Coaching is no exception to this practice, although the visual and tangible effects to the customers are not always apparent to the observer, except of course in their bank balance.

Life Coaches work with clients through questioning and the responses they give, which are directly as a result of their thoughts and emotions at the time of the session. For a very clever ‘conman’ it won’t be long before he has ‘conditioned’ his unsuspecting client into all sorts of promises and extra coaching sessions. Conditioning is a process used by prisoners on prison staff and paedophiles with young children to get their own way. This, however, is the  more serious case; it won’t always necessarily be done maliciously. There are times when it will be done unsuspectingly by both the coach and client, in particular when the coach doesn’t possess the necessary skills.

Situations where the coach may not have the necessary skills can be brought about in two different ways:

• A person decides to start coaching people because they feel they have the skills and it seems like a good way to make money
• A person decides the want to become a coach and they follow a trainee coaching programme, however the programme is of a poor standard so the person doesn’t develop the necessary skills to an appropriate depth

The ‘knock on’ effect of both of these two scenarios is serious to both the clients welfare and the reputation of the life coaching industry. It is time for the Life Coaching industry to become regulated, take full control and introduce a compulsory register for trained and qualified Life Coaches. By definition, the industry is one to help people so what’s happen to ‘walking the talk’ and providing clear guidelines for coaches and clients alike. Come Life Coaches it’s time to protect your industry and stop leaving it open for abuse

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Paul Worswick is a Life Coach and Mentor whose passion is helping people achieve great things in their life. He now uses the Internet technologies as a tool to help people and also spends with Internet Marketing.

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