Listen Like A Coach

Listening is one of the most complex skills to master and excel in. A good listener can knowingly and unknowingly solve a lot of issues that might be building within an individual, which he might be contemplating on for a long time. When considering a life coach as a good listener, he has to master this art so as to benefit his client by inspiring, motivating, supporting and guiding him on his journey towards a successful life.

Only when his client pours his heart out to him will he, as a life coach, be able to justify, fulfill and satisfy his beliefs by observing, guiding and finding solutions for all his complex decisions in life. Just by patiently hearing you out, a coach can clarify your doubts and help you achieve the outcomes that you might be focusing on.

Some key points to master the skill of listening

A good listener does not surpass his role as a listener to be just a passive or neutral activity. Instead, he puts his heart and soul in analyzing the kind of person you are, your basic character, ascertaining your weaknesses and strengths, the goals and aspirations which you have aimed at in life and so on by the style and way you put across your thoughts and emotions into words. Only if your life coach pays attention to your words can he understand and comprehend your true nature and your expectations out of life.

A good listener requires great wisdom to understand the feelings and emotions of human beings. Being a coach, for life coaching, demands you to keep on expanding your horizons in getting a better understanding of human beings and human nature, very closely and explicitly. Analyzing life as a whole and getting closer and closer to comprehending it better, with newer experiences, will only make you sharper and smarter as a good listener.

As a life coach, it is very important to listen optimistically and with positive human regard. Show compassion in conveying your views as a life coach, even after listening to the gravest of tragedies that might have hit your client. If you show positivism and optimism while hearing out your client and instigate him to keep a brave front even during times of extreme emergencies, you would be teaching him to concentrate on his positive traits and strengths rather than lamenting on his losses and brooding over the past.

Besides this, when you stand for the positive potentials of individuals, you help them reinforce their own inner strengths and capabilities which assist them in coming out with flying colors and reach to the top of the ladder of success in life.

So, train yourself to become a patient listener if you want to become a good life coach, and to become a good life coach undergo an executive coaching training program which would help you at every step of life.

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Authored By Akash Chander, Principal Coach

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