The Role Of A Life Coach

Coaching is a modern and rapidly growing method for helping others to improve, develop, find personal success, achieve aims and manage life change and personal challenges. Life coaching is effective for all situations, whether in personal life, career, sales or corporate and business life. Coaching draws out rather than puts in. It develops rather than imposes.

So lets say you decide to try a session of life coaching just to see what it is all about. Here is a little of what you can expect.

The role of your life coach is to:

1. Support and encourage you. They are not there to impose their values on you. They are there to support and encourage you to reach your daily action steps and in time to see your long term goals fulfilled.

2. Listen. They should not be doing all the talking during a session! A good life coach, needs to be a good listener and be interested in your opinions, beliefs and goals.

3. Help you explore your life, wishes, and dreams and then to help you plan and set goals. Part of the role of a coach is to help you to sort through your goals and dreams, to clarify where you want to go and then to help you set manageable and achievable action steps to help you get there.

4. Tell the truth. You do not need a coach that is going to never be realistic or real with you. A good life coach will help you set realistic goals and give you a push in the right direction when you need it!

5. Provide accountability. For me, this is one of the best roles of a coach. When I know that somebody is going to be asking me how I am getting on with my action steps, it provokes me to get them done.

6. Provide a fresh perspective. Sometimes this is just what you need, fresh eyes to look at your situation and help you decide what next step to take.

7. Trust you to make your own decisions. A life coach is not a counsellor or therapist. At the end of the day, they are there to support you in your decisions, not make them for you.

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