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A life coach is an accredited professional who helps a client to make productive life changes with the aim of attaining goals. This is generally accomplished by knowing the important questions to ask to catalyze progress in life. A successful life coach will become a motivator, strategist, and accountability partner. Life coaches can help clients reach goals in the most efficient, effective, and rewarding way possible from planning to execution personally and professionally. Most life coaches have weekly conversations with their clients with the goal of sharing expertise to reach achievements more quickly through the introduction of new ways of thinking. Often referred to as helicopter vision, a life coach is able to share a bird’s eye perspective with the client and bring about positive results with impressive speed.
Life coaching can be an effective tool for clients in many different professions or situations. Entrepreneurs, executives, business leaders, actors, musicians, creative people, managers, small business owners, start-ups, professionals, and home-makers all reach their goals with the help of a life coach. Anyone who is frustrated by their level of success or want to stay motivated and on track to continue enjoying success, whether professionally or personally.
There are life coaches for almost any situation, to learn about and see a list of fitness coaches click here. Many coaches specialize in specific areas so it is important to match the coach with the goal. Generally, people hire life coaches to achieve goals, find happiness, find a purpose, to do what they love, navigate a career change, increase confidence, to attract the right person in personal relationships. Anyone who feels resistance to attaining the change or goal in any facet of their life.
Many companies and individuals must face a lack of motivation and focus in the workplace which can result in low productivity. Life coaching has been proven to improve work performance. In addition, self-confidence, relationships, communication skills, life-work balance, team effectiveness, time management are often increased. Life coaches often specialize in certain areas such as career transitions, life transitions, finding a partner, a purpose, family goals, health and wellness, spiritual and mental health coaches.
Studies have shown that life coaching can be an effective tool. Whether based on return on investment, satisfaction of the client and their willingness to return or general opinions. Both types of studies have generally supported the effectiveness of life coaching. Approximately 86% of the companies studied said that they at least made back what they invested in using life and professional coaches. 99% of the companies and individuals who used life coaching were at least satisfied with the experience and 96% said that they would use a life coach again.
There are many different certification and training programs for life coaches which translates to a litany of different coaching styles and practices. Never the less, a client-coach relationship will often follow these steps.
This is usually a discovery session where both coach and client can get to know each other and decide if the relationship is the right fit. Often, various learning style, personality, and processing style tests are taken and questions that lead to an understanding of the overall goals are given. There is usually a list of steps or a preliminary game plan established for the client after the first meeting.
After the initial meeting, a schedule is developed and the client and coach meet whether in person or electronically. Some of the techniques employed throughout the sessions are visualization, affirmations, hypnosis, neuro-linguistic programming, meditation, relaxation, emotional freedom technique, finding beliefs or behaviors that limit success, as well as conversational mentoring. Discovering the client’s intentions and goals or attaining the original goals will often result in reassessment and preplanning to attain a new set of goals.
Clients can expect to feel a sense of direction instead of feeling lost, frustrated, and confused. The feelings of failure can be replaced with feeling successful, energized, and motivated. Establishing a relationship with a coach can help a client develop trust and increase the motivation to overcome challenges. A life coach can be many things, a consultant, advocate, friend, facilitator, navigator, and mentor.
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