The Beginner’s Guide to Life Coaching
Introduction
New to life coaching? Wonder what all the fuss is about? The Beginner’s Guide to Life Coaching provides a comprehensive overview of this hot topic. We’ll examine the inner workings and uncover the secrets of this intriguing new self-help profession. Find out if you could benefit from having a coach in your corner.
Overview of life coaching
You’ve undoubtedly heard the term life coach bandied about in cocktail chatter and in TV shows such as Starting Over and Scott Baio is 45… and Single. You may even know a few people who have worked with a coach. If you’re reading this guide, chances are you are curious enough to want to find out about this 21st-century profession and if you should make space in your life for a coach of your own.
Well, in a nutshell, life coaching is a method of directed conversation that is geared toward developing an action plan to reach your goals. Your life coach will be very solution focused, and treat you as a partner instead of a patient. People partner with life coaches to help them attain greater success in their lives, get past sticking points and stumbling blocks, and start achieving their goals.
Well that’s the short version. For the longer version, stick around to find out—
- The origins of life coaching and how it has gained in popularity.
- What life coaching really is, and why it’s based around conversations and questions.
- How life coaching works: The coaching process, and the anatomy of a coaching session.
- Whether life coaching is for you, and whether it’s worth the time and money.
- What happens when you become a coaching client.
- Differences among life coaching niche areas.
- How online coaching works.
- What coaching tools and techniques your coach will use with you.
Explore the chapters
Chapter 1 : The History of Life Coaching
How did the idea of life coaching catch on? What was the tipping point, as Malcolm Gladwell might put it? Drawing inspiration from the work of Vicki Brock, who conducted the first large scale, systematic review of the origins of coaching, we can characterize three different “generations” of coaching.
Chapter 2 : What Is Life Coaching?
So although there have been many influences on the development of coaching, the metaphor of a sports coach applied to the general area of personal development is certainly one of them.
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Chapter 3 : How Does Life Coaching Work? The Coaching Process
So we’ve determined that coaching takes the form of powerful conversations between you and your coach. Your life coach will question you in a way that is deep and thought provoking.
Chapter 4 : How Does Life Coaching Work? The Anatomy of a Coaching Session
So we’ve determined that coaching takes the form of powerful conversations between you and your coach. Your life coach will question you in a way that is deep and thought provoking.
Chapter 5 : Is Life Coaching For Me?
So now you know a lot more about what life coaching is and how it works, you’re probably asking yourself: Is life coaching right for me? To help you figure that out, let’s take a look at who uses life coaching, and what kinds of issues and challenges a life coach can help you with.
Chapter 6 : Is Life Coaching Worth The Time and Money?
You’ve figured out what life coaching is, and that you’ve got the kind of issues a life coach can help you with right now. But is life coaching worth parting with your hard-earned cash? What about the time commitment?
Chapter 7 : Becoming a Coaching Client
So let’s say you have decided to take the plunge and find a coach. What happens next?
Chapter 8 : Life Coaching Niche Areas
Life coaches often specialize in a particular niche area which draws on their own specific expertise and skill-set. Following is a short summary of these niche areas.
Chapter 9 : Life Coaching Tools and Techniques
A good life coach will implement many different tools for helping you, such as telephone conversations, online interactions, journaling, goal-tracking, homework and assessments.
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Go to Chapter 1If you want to get more from your life, and are looking for concrete action steps to get you there, check out our Request a Coach page. It’s a “cut the fence-sitting and take action” way to tackle your issues and actually find success. You’ll be matched with the coaches most suited to you to get you from where you are to where you want to be. To get off the fence and start to take action, click or tap here.