Find The Best Life Coach Training

You can find many courses for life coaches on the internet. With the right training, anyone can become an effective life coach. However there are a number of things that are important to being a great life coach. Both as a person and as actually running a successful coaching business. These are five broad areas that coaching should cover. digital nomad coaching

Your life coach training should teach you communication skills

Many people believe that you only need to listen to others to be a life coach. Being a great coach requires more than just being a good listener or an aunt. Coaching is all about listening. The coach should listen more than they speak. The 80/20 rule applies. Listen 20% of the times and speak 20%. The coach must be able to listen to what the client is saying and not saying. They should notice what the client is saying verbally and non-verbally. The coach must be able to notice if the client is in-congruent. This could be a client saying one thing verbally but another non-verbally or doing one thing while saying another.

Asking great questions

Listening is only one part of understanding the coach-client communication. Clear and articulate questioning by the coach is also important. The coach should ask open-ended and exploratory questions. It is important to ask questions that help the client achieve their goals and not just satisfy their curiosity. Questions should be based on the client's words and what the coach observes. Not simply questions that sound good and have no bearing on the issues at hand. The use of questions in coaching is an article in itself and should be covered very well during a life coach training program.

A coach should be confident

Confidence is an important element in running any business and even more so in life coaching. You are not only making business decisions, but also working with people who are coming to see you to help with their problems. A great coach must be able confidently to deal with clients in order to be a life coach. I often see in the life coach training that new coaches get a little flustered when the client presents them with a "big" problem. It is as if the client does not know what to say to solve the problem for the client. digital nomad course

This is interesting as it is not the coach's job to solve the client's problem. In such the coach is there to help the client find their own way forward, with the possible solutions the client comes up with. So the coach should be confident in their abilities to assist the client in exploring solutions for themselves. Don't get flustered by problems that seem "insurmountable" to you as the coach.

A good coach should practice sincerity and empathy

Clients come to coaching with a variety of goals and problems. It can be very hard for some people to approach a life coach. If the coach is sincere in wanting to help the client, it will shine through. Clients will feel more at home and comfortable when this happens. This is far more conducive for achieving results than someone who feels judged by the coach.

As the coach it is important to understand that the client might be stepping outside of their comfort zone and being stressed in moving towards their outcome. Empathy and allowing clients to go at their own pace will help build trust. Imagine a client who is gay and trying to tell their family. A coach who doesn't understand the client's feelings can cause more stress.