As a life coach, you are responsible for providing advice, mentorship and counselling to your clients. Your ability to provide helpful, useful advice all depends on whether or not you are able to properly assess your client’s needs. While your client may express their specific needs verbally, you will need…
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Assessment is an important tool in ensuring that something is working. When you meet your life coach for the first time, they will be assessing you based on what you are looking to achieve. Once this has been done, they will implement a strategy that will allow you to achieve…
Read MoreThe term “insight” refers to having knowledge. It’s more than just knowing more than someone else. It’s about being in tune with your innermost self – the psychology of you – and being able to use this self-awareness to better work with people. This gives you the power to be…
Read MoreWe are all guilty of creating unrealistic expectations when it comes to our development. We start diets and expect results within the same day. We expect medication to work the instant it is taken and we all expect to be the best at what we do. Expectations are a part…
Read MoreThe more that you practise the art of life coaching the better you’ll get at discerning how your clients are feeling. Reflecting feelings is like using a mirror to shine the person’s feelings back at them. This is called mirroring and you basically use the same keywords that the person…
Read MoreThe principle of holistic wellness maintains that an individual consists of three aspects: body, mind as well as spirit. These components need to be integrated as one in order for the person to be well. Thus, the ‘whole’ person must be evaluated and treated when there is a health concern.…
Read MoreSuccessful life coaching most certainly comprises learning by doing. You can have all of the correct knowledge but if there is no action involved the process is null and void. While there are a number of unique ways that can be used to teach people, arguably learning by doing is…
Read MoreAccording to expert life coaches, often it is inferred that other individuals perform a particular task something because of their personalities. However, when considering our own actions we think that we do things because of the situation that we find ourselves in. This is called the actor-observer bias. In addition,…
Read MoreThe term ‘intrapersonal’, and by extension intra-personal dynamics – is to do with self. The dictionary gives the meaning of this term as ‘existing or occurring within the individual self or mind’. Another term, one that is becoming popular these days, is ‘emotional intelligence’ which is the ability to understand…
Read MorePreparing for a presentation can be an overwhelming experience if a life coaching client allows it to be one. This skill is vital to master as it is the single most important part of creating a successful presentation. It is an indispensable foundation which means that you, as the life coach,…
Read MoreStress is a feeling which is created when we react to specific events. It’s the body’s way of meeting a challenge in addition to preparing to meet a tough situation with focus, strength, stamina as well as heightened alertness. It is often the life coach’s job to help their clients…
Read MoreWhen hiring a life coach, clients express the vulnerabilities and struggles in their lives. A life coach needs to help their clients process these issues in order that they can move forward. If they aren’t able to listen to their clients’ feelings and expectations, they won’t be able to provide…
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