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How to Become a Dating Coach Everyone Wants to Hire

March 26, 2012 By 4 Comments

How to become a dating coach everyone wants to hire? That’s the question. With so many people unsure of the best way to find their soul mate, or just a good date, there are plenty of potential clients. However, if your question is how to become a dating coach, or rather, a successful dating coach, you better think about ways to become the best damn dating coach you can be!

5 Answers to the Question – How to Become a Dating Coach Everyone Wants to Hire?

Help someone for free. Giving away free services, perhaps to family or friends, or as a promotional introduction to your service, is a great way to promote your practice. Do a good job for someone and they will extol your benefits to everyone they see. Sometimes, giving away your services for free is the best form of advertising.

Learn how to give criticism. As long as your focus isn’t on the negative, criticism is an important component of any type of coaching. It is important to deliver the truth, whether your clients wants to hear it or not. However, the truth must be delivered without hurting their feelings. It is not easy to do, but it is essential to your coaching success and your clients’ dating success.

Identify and consider creative ways for your clients to meet and greet prospective dates. Create questionnaires that can be used to identify personality traits which can then help determine what your client enjoys. Next, do some research on date places that may match your clients personality and likes. Suggest these to your clients and discuss and analyze the potential of each place. A visit or test run may also be recommended. Be creative, fun, and step outside the box. If you do it, your client may be creative, fun, and consider stepping outside the box on a date.

Learn how to teach writing. The dating world has gone online and it is vital that your client writes a informative, entertaining, and engaging profile for various dating sites. You need to be able to help your client write a compelling, convincing, yet honest profile that will help draw potential dates. You should also be able to teach your client good ways to respond to inquiries or other profiles. Good writing skills are a part of the modern-day dating scene and if you are thinking of becoming a dating coach everyone wants to hire, you need to understand good writing and be able to teach it to your clients. For everyone out there, answering the question, “How to become dating coaches”, is easy but it takes work, especially with your writing skills.

Remember that you are a dating coach, not a counselor or psychiatrist. If your client wants help with the dating world because they are busy or lack the knowledge or experience with dating, you are there to offer your services. However, if your client has a host of personal issues that effects their dating life, you may want to refer them to a good counselor or psychiatrist. Those are the types of clients for which you lack the expertise and who may hinder your success.

There you go – five ways to answer the question, “How to become a dating coach everyone wants to hire?” By using the five steps, you can make a name for yourself, make your clients happy by helping them find happiness in the dating world, and you’ll soon be that dating coach everyone is talking about and everyone wants to hire. How to become a dating coach everyone wants to hire is as simple as 1,2,3,4, and 5!

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Fred Philips
Business Coach
Writing Team, Coaches Training Blog Community

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Relationship Coach Training: What You Can Learn About How to Become a Dating Coach From the Wizard of Oz

November 18, 2009 By Leave a Comment

You Can Learn How to Become a Dating Coach From Watching a Movie?

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What can you possibly learn about how to become a dating coach from the Wizard of Oz? It’s all there, in Technicolor, for those who are willing to learn. And the best part of this relationship coach training is it’s easy to remember. There are five things that keep people from finding the love they want that you can learn from this story.

How to Become a Dating Coach Using Characters as Your Relationship Coach

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How to Become a Dating Coach: Insights from the Scarecrow
It doesn’t take a lot of relationship coach expertise to see where the Scarecrow’s theory falls down. He thinks that if only he had a brain, everything would be okay. He thinks he’s a failure, and it’s not until Dorothy gets him to see that there is hope that he takes action. Eventually the Wizard points out that the action he takes proves that all along he had brains. The message is that most people who say they are looking for a relationship aren’t even taking action because at some level they don’t feel they have what it takes. Enter the relationship coach.

How to Become a Dating Coach: Insights from the Tin Man
He’s rusty, but he does have what it takes to fall in love. He just needs a little oil and he’s on his way. Up until he meets Dorothy, he’s is literally frozen. And while his body was rusted in one position, there really wasn’t any problem with his heart or ability to feel emotions. In some ways, he let what he couldn’t do stop him from doing what he could do. And like the Tin Man, some of your relationship coach clients just need a little strategy to identify ways to get unstuck.

How to Become a Dating Coach: Insights from the Cowardly Lion
The lion must have had a very disempowering peer group before he met Dorothy and the gang, along with some very negative self talk. Once he changed his peer group, he started to make some headway. After the Wizard gave him a more empowering alternative, the Lion completed the rest of the transformation. Note that the wizard was not even a certified relationship coach at that time.

How to Become a Dating Coach: Insights from the Wizard
Here is an example of how trying to be someone you’re not is a bad idea. It wasn’t until the wizard was caught in his lie and forced to play the hand he was dealt that he was able to succeed. As a relationship coach, be ready to call your client out when they’re not being authentic.

How to Become a Dating Coach: What about Dorothy?
As a relationship coach, make sure your clients are not looking for a woman to solve all their problems. The Scarecrow, the Lion, and the Tin Man didn’t really transform until Dorothy was trapped by the witch and needed to be saved. At the moment these guys recognized that they had to do it on their own. They put their excuses down, and stepped up to the plate.

Colette Seymann
JTS Advisors Designated Accountability Coach

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How to Become a Dating Coach: Coaches Training on Identifying The 3 Main Types of Men

January 15, 2009 By 2 Comments

 

If you want to become a dating coach, the first thing you will need to learn is how to quickly categorize the 3 main personality types of men. Of course, some women will be better suited as matches for each type as well, but others might be able to date across categories. In order to become a dating coach, you will need to be able to appreciate the strengths and Achilles’ heels of each category.

Coaches Training Disclaimer: For the sake of discussion, we will assume that men do not switch categories and no category is better than another. Some men may have a secondary trait, but no one is a perfect balance of all three. There is variation within each group, but I chose some extreme cases here to help paint better pictures.

  • The Leader: This one is self explanatory. This is the guy who runs the company, he runs his home, and it’s his way or the highway. Usually a very good provider, for women who want to be taken care of financially. This is a dominant , masculine guy, who wants to be in control. The perfect woman for this guy is faithful, loyal and obedient. Once a woman has won his confidence, he will build marble statues of her. Or maybe I should say, he will have them made. If you want to become a dating coach for this type of guy, make sure he is clear about what he wants so that he is shopping in the right aisle. Look at your coaches training notes to make sure you allow him to make choices and suggestions.
  • Mr. Steady: He will not change directions quickly. This guy will not invent a light bulb, but he will build a factory and run a factory that will produce them. He might be a doctor, or teaching coaches training programs. This type is looking for a resourceful, hardworking woman who is self-sufficient. He is dependable, so he is always in demand. He is there to support other people (in business he supports the Leader type) and he comforts sick people, etc. The woman who wants her man all to herself will be miserable with this type of guy. To become a dating coach for this guy, he will have to think overnight about whether or not to work with you.
  • The Dreamer: Some people refer to this type as the Visionary. This guy doesn’t want anyone to tell him what to do, how to do it, or where to go. He is like a kite, swaying in the wind. The wrong woman for him will be like a heavy rope that pulls the kite to the ground. The right woman will be like a string, allowing the kite to soar higher and steadier. She needs to enjoy the wild ride, or at least appreciate the scenery. The Dreamer may be an inventor, or designer (perhaps a designer of coaches training programs?). The world needs the dreamer, because he is the one who seeks out injustice and slays the dragons.To become a dating coach for this type, pin him down to a deadline date for his goals before he gets started on another quest.

Now that you have enough information to get started on your quest to become a dating coach. Take some time to figure out which category you and your friends fit within. It wouldn’t hurt to get additional coaching training in assessments to help subdivide the categories a little more and help with more specific communication styles.

Colette Seymann

Accountability Coach, JTS Advisors

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How to Become a Dating Coach

January 8, 2009 By 2 Comments

 

Doesn’t it sound fun to learn how to become a dating coach? A long time ago, marriages were arranged…you got what you got, and didn’t make a fuss. Now there are so many options, life is going too fast, and people are putting off getting into serious relationships until they are well on their way up the corporate ladder. By the time they are ready to start, they often find it hard to find someone compatible. A lot of my friends have turned to dating services, and of all of them…only one is married. I’m sure these dating services work, but there has to be a better way to weed through all the available singles. Why not coaching?

A few years ago, I had a friend who was single and looking for a bit of romance. He had a steady career, came in contact with a lot of people, but rarely even went on a date. I suggested a haircut change…to actually spend more than $8 and get his hair styled. Within a couple of weeks, he went from 4 months of being “dateless” to having 3 dates! He’s now happily married. I know, it wasn’t just the haircut. But we did have a laugh at the idea of having a business where men can learn how to be “dateable”…his idea was that he always seemed to get noticed by women when he already had a girlfriend. Maybe it was because there was a woman who was making sure he was properly groomed, and someone besides his football watching buddies was helping him pick out clothes to wear. Or maybe because he felt he could just be himself because his need for love and connection was being fulfilled. As a coach, offering some support, encouragement, and strategy, could have provided a world of difference.

Now when I think about how to become a dating coach, I immediately think about the DISC and Values Assessments. With that kind of information, a coach could really make some sparks fly. With the right marketing, you could actually set up a database that would be large enough to even take a stab at connecting people who might be a good fit. But even by helping your clients understand their dating history patterns through their personality styles and values would be of magical value. And, as with any other coaching, you want to be able to lead people out of their existing comfort zones so they can get new results.

So if you really want to learn how to become a dating coach, start with learning how to debrief the DISC and Values Assessments. Then you can provide exceptional value for those who are stressed out by the dating scene, and offer solutions and strategies so they can be on their way to finding their match.

Colette Seymann

JTS Advisors Accountability Coach

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