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Becoming a Life Coach: Beyond Taking Life Coach Classes

July 9, 2009 By 5 Comments

Becoming a life coach and shopping for life coach classes is a lot like shopping for a diet. Have you ever heard an advertisement for a diet that says, “You just have to eat less, exercise more, and work consistently?” People want the magic bullet. Even at the risk of adverse side effects. Becoming a life coach is very similar. Have you ever seen advertisements for life coach classes that say, “Become a coach in 3 days!”

The truth is that becoming a life coach is very similar. Taking life coach classes and gaining a lot of knowledge isn’t going to turn you into a coach. You’re going to have to give up free time, work hard, and have a commitment for the long haul. How bad do you want to become a coach? What are you willing to sacrifice?

Becoming a Life Coach Means Investing Time to Perfect Your Coaching Skills

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Taking a lot of life coach classes isn’t enough. Knowledge without application isn’t useful in becoming a life coach. Coaching is about skill, and to master skills takes practice. Michael Jordan became a star by practicing the basics over and over. Becoming a coach takes the same type of practice.

Life Coach Classes Must Foster an Environment That Provides Accountability

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In addition, becoming a coach means you need an environment that provides accountability and an empowering peer group. This can come from other students in your life coach classes or from people in a mastermind group. It’s not really who you know, or who you talk to once a year. It’s who you hang out with on a regular basis that matters most.

Becoming a coach is a journey, not a destination. The first few years may not be great. Keep taking life coach classes, and putting things into action. If you’re committed to the process, and really believe that coaching makes a difference in your life and the life of others, with time you will reap the rewards.

Collete Seymann

JTS Advisors Designated Accountability Coach

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Becoming a Motivational Coach: Using What You Know from Your Life Coach Classes

May 31, 2009 By 1 Comment

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Getting Results from Becoming a Motivational Coach

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After taking all those life coach classes, is there anything you can use on your path to becoming a motivational coach?  The biggest problem with motivation is that people are not focused on results.  Let’s face it; most people grow up looking for a pat on the back or avoiding pain (like a spanking or parental disapproval).  They are trained to just focus on activity, and not on getting results.  You can change that by becoming a motivational coach, using the skills you’ve learned from life coach classes.

Using Life Coach Classes to Motivate Clients

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How can you help people get results, even before you master all the information from the life coach classes you have already taken?  The key to becoming a motivational coach without taking on even more life coach classes is to teach people to use a results template.

Start by becoming motivational coach who has their clients list the results they want on the top of a sheet of paper, spreadsheet, or white board.  Just below each result, have them list the actions that will help them achieve the result.  They can also color code the actions that must be done, either by highlighting or using a different color.

Below the actions, you continue working with your clients by becoming a motivational coach who helps them identify the different roles they play when working on each result.  This works great with people who are entrepreneurs, who often wear many different hats to keep their businesses running.  Then below each role, using the skills from your life coach classes, help your clients identify the feelings they will have when they are working on their actions.  This will help them develop a greater sense of purpose.

Maximizing the Value of Life Coach Classes

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By becoming a motivational coach who helps your clients focus on the purpose of the results, they become motivated at an even higher level.  Becoming a motivational coach doesn’t mean you have to fill a room full of people.  Teaching people to get off the treadmill of activity and helping them focus on results can be just as powerful.  The results will probably be even more sustainable than a weekend motivational retreat.  Plus, the additional good news is that you don’t necessarily need to take more life coach classes to get started.

Colette Seymann

JTS Advisors Designated Accountability Coach

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