Life Coaches help individuals
do their best in all areas of their life.
Coaching integrates principles from the fields of education,
psychology, business, and personal transformation. Your coach
serves as your personal consultant, partner, sounding board,
and confidante, championing you to improve your effectiveness
and achieve your goals. Your coach partners with you to improve
your focus, to hold yourself accountable, and celebrate your
successes.
Personal coaching can benefit just about anyone who has a
desire to accomplish new and different things in life. Young
and old alike find that coaching has made significant changes
the way they approach problems, challenges and opportunities
as well as a tool to reach their goals and fulfill their dreams.
Your coach is trained to listen, to observe and to customize
their approach to individual client needs. They seek to elicit
solutions and strategies from the client; they believe the
client is naturally creative and resourceful and have
their own answers. Your coach's job is to provide support
to enhance the skills, resources, and creativity that the
client already has.
Coaching will help you develop and implement life plans and
skills and provide the motivation and support you need on
your way to achieving your goals. Coaching is not therapy.
Those looking to reflect on the past or deal with a current
personal crisis should seek the help of a trained therapist.
Unlike well meaning friends and significant others, coaches
will always tell you the truth and work solely on YOUR goals
and accomplishments.
Role of Coach
By far, most coaching clients pay their coach to be a sounding
board - to really listen to them and give honest feedback.
Clients, who could select as many choices as were applicable,
characterized the role of their coach as the following:
- Sounding board: 84.8%
- Motivator: 78.1%
- Friend: 56.7%
- Mentor: 50.5%
- Business consultant: 46.7%
- Teacher: 41.0%
- Taskmaster: 30.5%
- Spiritual guide: 29.5%
- Other: 13.3%
Coaching Issues
Most clients turn to their coach for help on time management
as well as career guidance and business advice. To a lesser
but still significant extent, they seek coaching on relationships,
family, wellness and spirituality. Clients, who could select
as many choices as were applicable, said they work with their
coach on the following issues:
- Time management: 80.5%
- Career: 74.3%
- Business: 73.8%
- Relationships/Family: 58.6%
- Physical/Wellness: 51.9%
- Spiritual: 51.0%
- Personal: 45.2%
- Goal-setting: 39.5%
- Financial: 38.1%
- Creativity: 11.0%
- Other: 01.4%
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