Life Coaching Courses

Life Coaching Courses - Today’s topic is on life coaching courses or life coach courses, they are both basically the same thing. So now that you know what is life coach or life coaching all about, I might want to draw your attention to some life coaching courses. To become a life coach, you would need to take up some life coaching courses to get the relevant credentials or certifications. Of course you can do your own reading and self study but you would not have the necessary qualifications or maybe just a certificate to prove that you got what it takes to be a life coach. The thing is there are many quacks out there these days so you got to make sure that you are signing up for a genuine and accredited course. Such courses are actually quite rare and you would have to check out what your own country has to offer.

Anyways the first thing you have to do is to investigate and hunt down the life coaching courses which are available in your country. Based on what is available you have to then narrow down your choices and choose the course which is most appropriate for you. There are even some websites online when you can engage an online life coach. I am not saying that such services are bad but you have to do some research to see if they are credible. Such online life coaches are in generally kind of dodgy I would say and it is always best to go for a course which is conducted by a professional life coach.

I also have to warn you that in some places, life coaching is not regulated. What this means is that there is no proper accreditation and you do not need to possess any minimum qualifications to practice as a life coach. The course is just there so that you can have more confidence and better coaching skills after the completion of a course. I still feel that it is best to find some proper courses. You may end up taking some life coaching for dummies which offers no value whatsoever to you.

Once you feel that a course seems alright and have picked it out among the many others, it is time to ask the course provider intelligent questions. You can also ask for testimonials, these would come from the people who have taken the course and benefited from it. Testimonials can also be forged so you got to be careful. Then you got to make sure that the curriculum of the course is good. Is it value for money? Do you think you are being over charged? What is the coaching certification you will get after the end of the course? Is this certificate recognised internationally?

There are always many different levels and different types of courses depending on what you want and how much experience you already have. Is a beginner course more suitable or a more advanced course? Do you intend to be your own life coach or do you aspire to be a professional life coach? The many varied courses include religious ones as well, such as courses for those who want to be a Christian life coach or maybe a spiritual life coach as well. Of course the most basic and fundamental would be a course which offers life skills coaching.

Before I end my article, I would want to say that think through carefully what you want at this stage. Engage the experts if you really want to be professional. Do note that being certified or accredited is not a must have, there are excellent life coaches who got to where they are now simple because they are good and also have experience. But do note the different qualifications, courses and training available, but do not start pulling your hair just because you cannot afford a course or do not have a certificate.

To end of this article, I would like to introduce to you today’s book on life coaching entitled Start Your Own Coaching Business by Monroe Mann. What better book to introduce when you need to know which life coaching courses are the genuine ones. While you read this book about the proper ways to start a life coaching business, you would also find out what you should look out for when you register for a life coaching course. There are currently only 5 reviews of this book and 4 of them give the book 5 stars!

Start Your Own Coaching Business

This book teaches you how to be a motivational life coach as a professional career. It contains an easy to use hands-on guide which guides you through the steps you need to take to set up and launch your own successful coaching company. Then the next stage would be to help your clients with their life and get them motivated. Of course you would have to become an expert life coach in the process to attract clients and build your reputation. The book also features experts who provide real-life examples, sound business advice and priceless tips. It does hope that you can build a great business brand, teaches you how to price your service, advertise and publicize to attract more clients and finally boost profits by expanding your business.

Well ok now that I have gone through the book, it does seem that it is not really about life coaching courses but oh well maybe I will get it right next time! Stay tuned for more articles that will let you become a great life coach and learn what is life coaching in the process!

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Life Coaching

Life Coaching - In my short introductory post, I have talked a little bit about how this blog would work. Of course the main focus of this blog of mine is to really talk about everything under the sun with respect to life coaching. It is definitely one of the best things which would value add to your life. Life coaching is not a simple business and you should engage a life coach to be on the safe side. Well in all other cases, perhaps you might find my blog good enough that you can do some life coaching on your own without engaging a life coach. In this way, you can not only save some money but learn some trips to do it yourself (DIY).

Anyways besides engaging a life coach, there are also many life coaching courses out there that you can take up. Currently there isn’t any life coach certification or life coach accreditation. From what I know, life coaching is pretty new and is a self-regulating profession, except for those registered under international professional associations). To attain such certifications, you would need some good life coach training or should I say life coaching training.

So if you are on a quest to find a life coach, I am not sure this blog of mine would be able to help you out. But of course deep down in my heart I hope that this blog will truly really really help you out. My blog would in subsequent articles focus on becoming a life coach. Maybe if you want to look for some life coach jobs to get some life coaching certification, you are also most welcome.

So as mentioned, I like to introduce good books on life coaching for my blog. I believe that it is impossible for me to cover everything on my blog and hope that with my good recommendation, people may actually buy some of this books to read and improve on their knowledge. In today’s article I would like to recommend this best selling book titled Co-Active Coaching, 2nd Edition: New Skills for Coaching People Toward Success in Work and, Life by Laura Whitworth.

Co-Active Coaching, 2nd Edition: New Skills for Coaching People Toward Success in Work and, Life

You would be happy to know that many of the reviews of this book gave it a 5-star rating (46 out of 70 with another 14 giving it 4 stars at the time of this post). Anyways this book is a newly revised edition. Co-Active Coaching teaches you how to design and maintain successful, collaborative, and empowering coaching relationships. While is book is written more for the coach or prospective coach, I would say that it is useful for people who need some help with life coaching to read it too. This book is divided into three parts and the authors, Laura Whitworth, Henry Kimsey-House and Phil Sandahl describe in detail their flexible and adaptive model for great life coaching.

The three parts of the book are as follows:

Part One is about "Coaching Fundamentals." The authors outline the model which places the client's agenda at the heart of the coaching partnership. The model focuses on the coach using his or her skills to focus on the client's fulfillment, balance, and process.

Part Two is about "Co-Active Coaching Skills." There are five skills which are key to the coach's success: listening, use of intuition, exploration of curiosity, action and learning and self-management. The book details activities that the coach can practice at the end of each chapter. This would allow the coach to perfect his skills in the five different areas.

Part Three is about "Co-Active Coaching Processes." While the earliest section was about skills, this section is more on how to conduct a smooth life coaching process. For this section, the authors highlight the three core principles of coaching, which are fulfillment, balance and process.

The fourth section is on "The Coach's Toolkit" which is a little nice section that had packed all the information needed to facilitate life coaching. For example you can find Action Plans, Client Activities and Worksheets, Intake Checklists etc which are good tools for the coach to use when coaching clients. There are even exercises and worksheets that can be used by the coach to better understand what the client is asked to do and so as to allow him to understand the coaching process as well. There are over 35 exercises, questionnaires, checklists, and forms to reinforce the principles and techniques taught in the earlier chapters.

With so much good information stored in this book Co-Active Coaching, 2nd Edition: New Skills for Coaching People Toward Success in Work and, Life, you should go ahead to grab it soon before it runs out of stock! Stay tuned to my life coaching blog for more good books and future updates!

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