what is life coaching? how to recognize real coaching
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What Is Life Coaching?
How To Recognize REAL
Coaching
Hi, I’m Scott
It’s Trendy to be a “Coach”Far too many people are claiming to be coaches…
I wanted to put this video together to help people who are either looking for a life coach, or want to become a life coach themselves.
Why? Because coaching is a science. There are methodologies, techniques and tools that are particular to coaching. The practice of Life Coaching has been benchmarked. We’ll cover these benchmarks in this course.
What We’ll Cover In This Course
• What coaching is not…
• What a Life Coach is… More specifically what is expected of a real life coach. I’ll introduce you to the ICF… What are the required skills and core competencies a coach is required to master?
• Now that you know what to look for… The outcome I want for you is to have the information you need to recognize a real Coach and Coach Training program.
Coaching Is Not…
1. Therapy: Focuses on past events. It deals with a clients mental associations around past events. Therapy usually addresses an emotional trauma of some kind relating to past events and, hopefully, learns to cope with that event.
What Coaching Is Not
2. Consulting: Consultants concern themselves with organizational change; an expert, an experienced professional, delivers reports and presentations to that end. Then they tell the company what they should do.
What Coaching Is Not
3. Mentoring: Mentorship is a relationship in which a more experienced or more knowledgeable person helps to guide a less experienced or less knowledgeable person in a particular field, discipline or activity. They’ve done it before, now it’s your turn to succeed.
What Do Life Coaches Do?
Coaching is a very different kind of conversation…
• Coaches are partners with their clients. Coaches approach their coachees more as equals. In fact, the coachee is considered the expert of their life and as the only one who can access their own inner resources, wisdom and experience.
What Do Life Coaches Do?
• The coach is the expert in facilitating the conversation that brings out the most resourceful depths of the coachee.
• Pure coaching does not entail giving advise. If someone ever offers you coaching and suggests anything related to “giving advise”… RUN
What Do Life Coaches Do?
• Real Coaches have studies a coaching course that is ICF accredited…
ICF?! Who Are They?
• The International Coaching Federation (ICF) provides independent certification, and builds a wide network of credentialed coaches.
Set the highest standards for your Coach or Coach Training program.
The ICF Core Competencies For Coaches
1.SETTING THE FOUNDATIONI. Meeting Ethical Guidelines And Professional StandardsII. Establishing The Coaching Agreement
The ICF Core Competencies For Coaches
2. CO-CREATING THE RELATIONSHIPI. Establishing Trust And Intimacy With The ClientII. Coaching Presence
The ICF Core Competencies For Coaches
3. COMMUNICATING EFFECTIVELYI. Active ListeningII. Powerful QuestionsIII. Direct Communication
The ICF Core Competencies For Coaches
4. FACILITATING LEARNING AND RESULTSI. Creating AwarenessII. Designing ActionsIII. Planning And Goal SettingIV. Managing Progress And accountability
What REAL Coaching OffersA coach who has studied ICF accredited material will offer you something really special…
• Their skill set makes them thought provoking and inspirational…
• They focus on YOUR goal, YOUR dreams and follow YOUR inspiration.
What REAL Coaching Offers
• You focus on your topic, the coach focuses on getting the best out of you.
• Professional coaches are trained listeners (Reflective listening and backtracking)
What REAL Coaching Offers
• Empathetic partners and non-judgmental. They create a safe space to explore…
• They have professional standards and ethics they are trained for and required to adhere to…
What REAL Coaching Offers
* Coaches do not tell or give advice! The toughest skill to learn.
You’ll Be Inspired
I’ll define coaching further as:
The Coaching Conversation is an ongoing, intentional and skilled conversation that
empowers a person, or group, to fully live out their calling.
Unique Benefits of Real CoachingPersonal Attention
A coach focuses on the agenda of the client.
The client decides which goals or problems to work on, not the coach.
Unique Benefits of Real Coaching
You get to learn about YOU
A coach uses powerful questions to generate new learning.
The coach does not teach or advise, but asks questions and listens with great intuition.
Unique Benefits of Real CoachingFollow YOUR Bliss
A coach encourages action.
The client sets their own goals, develops his or her own action steps, not the assignments of the
coach.
Unique Benefits of Real Coaching
Not Just Talk
A coach supports change.
A coach follows-up to support personal learning, growth, and change while holding the coachee
accountable. A coach assists with any resistance to change…
That's what REAL Coaches do!
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