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Entering the Field
by: David Wood
So you’re considering a career as a life, business or corporate coach, but wondering what’s the best way to enter the field?
Do I need to do a training course? Do I need to get accredited? Where will I get clients, and do I have what it takes?
Most coaches agree on the best way to begin a coaching career: Work with someone who already is a coach! Simple eh?
In other words, work a month or two with a Coach; someone who has already built the type of business or career you want to have, and who can then help you do the same.
Only faster and more efficiently!
Here are the key steps:
1. Interview 2-3 coaches to find out more about the career and lifestyle you would be getting into. They can tell you the good and the bad; how easy, or difficult it is, and …… how they got started.
2. Hire a coach and experience coaching for yourself. But don’t get coached on Becoming a Coach. Not just yet. Be coached on something else you want to achieve, or something you want to alter in your life. This will give you the best feel for whether or not this is the career for you.
It’s actually the best training you can get. Training from a live course, teleclass or book is great. But there’s no substitute for the experience of personally being coached, and seeing how an experienced coach moves you forward.
For a list of mentor coaches and links to their web pages, visit www.coachstart.com/Mentor.htm
3. Once you’ve decided to go ahead, consider professional coach training. This will give you resources, insights, tools and support. It will also help you to build your coach network; other coaches you can call on for help and advice. We’ll profile coach training schools in a later issue. For now, suffice it to say you should pick a school which has happy, successful coaches.
Do you require face to face training, or want the flexibility of teleclass (phone conference calls) training? And shop around – prices vary. For a list of training schools, visit www.becomeacoach.com
4. Work with a coach to build your practice. Some people skip Step 3 and jump straight to working with a coach to enter the industry. People in this category are usually those with existing transferable skills (e.g. counselling, or a lot of personal development training), or people short on cash, and wanting to generate some revenue from coaching before they invest in a proper training course. A coach can help you avoid common mistakes, and build your practice faster, and with less effort than you would on your own.
5. What business systems do you need in place? Where will you find clients? How will you keep your clients? And how do you keep your chin up when you lose three in one day!?
In future issues, we’ll examine the different training options, provide tips on selecting a mentor coach, discuss the importance of accreditation, and publish interviews with new and experienced coaches.
By David Wood and Geoff Grist
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David Wood is a Certified Life Coach. He helps coaches, consultants, speakers and trainers to build their businesses via his popular eBook http://10SuperCoaches.com and his audio eBook at http://www.FirstFiftyClients.com. Get his new Free Download ’50 Power Questions’ and popular monthly eZine for clients at coaches (now over 15,000 subscribers) at: http://www.solutionbox.com/freedownload.htm
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About The Author
David Wood is a Certified Life Coach. He helps coaches, consultants, speakers and trainers to build their businesses via his popular ebook at http://10SuperCoaches.com and his audio ebook at http://www.FirstFiftyClients.com. Get his new Free Download “50 Power Questions” and popular monthly ezine for clients and coaches (now over 15,000 subscribers) at: http://www.solutionbox.com/freedownload.htm.
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Give Yourself A Chance To Do Better By Taking Life Coach Trainings
Since you never get tired of trying until you reach success, then, the life coaching session is truly the right one for you. Life coaching could have been a term you always heard from those successful individuals. You can excel too, just how others excel in their field through this training. If you are not into taking the life coach sessions, you may want to know some information regarding this action.
With life coaching sessions through the help of life coaches, you can make yourself better now and improve your level of living. It can help you in one area of your life, or much more, it can help all areas of your life that needs improvements and adjustments. Whatever circumstances or challenges you are facing in life right now, life coaches can help you in any way possible. Actually, even if you don’t have much of the life’s mess, you can still benefit a lot from taking a life coach.
Each life coach training session will tackle steps on how you can make actions which will give your self a boost to improve your own life. You can have a broader perception for a job or career in life you may be in. If you need guidance or direction in life, the life coach session will help you open your mind so you can see what life has ahead of you. This way you can set your goals better and reach for these goals easier. You can make meaningful choices for yourself without suffering from stress and pressures of life.
By taking life coach sessions, you will have an opportunity to choose the path of life that leads to serenity, happiness, and contentment. You will learn to give importance to your self as you give your best in facing every challenge life is throwing you.
A life coach does not mean to refer to a person who offers consultation for therapy or psychological prescriptions. A life coach is someone who will be more than a friend, a consultant, or a therapist to you. He is a person who will help you realize that you can excel in anything you do and that you have the full potential to be successful in life, whether you are organizing a business or just aiming to be a good person with positive views in life.
If you are in Sydney and you want to take the life coach sessions for your own benefits and advantages, there are lots of life coaches to find in town. But before
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you get to avail a set of sessions, always make sure you are working with the best qualified and certified life coach there is in Sydney.
Experience and relevance in the field is among the credentials of a qualified effective life coach. So if you are going on a life coaching session, personally communicate with each life coach you possibly hire to ensure that quality of training and positive results are what you will get for your own improvements.
Getting on the road to a happier and successful life may cost you something, but you will definitely lose nothing, yet you will gain more or everything in life.
By: Dan Coyle
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