Fitness coaching jobs offer the opportunity to make good money and stay active while you work. In these difficult economic times, jobs can be hard to find. However, with an aging population looking to stay active, and a increased interest in battling obesity, the demand for fitness and health trainers continues to increase. People want to stay healthy, age slowly, and remain in good physical condition. Many people realize that knowledgeable coaching is essential when pursuing their healthy … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2011
5 Steps To Success In Conflict Coaching
Conflict coaching skills are much more essential than most people realize. Conflict doesn’t go just go away like a disagreement. Conflict occurs when someone perceives that one or more of his survival needs is being threatened. As tough as it sounds, conflict coaching can turn this challenge into an opportunity for growth. Conflict Coaching Essentials 1. Prepare or die. Make sure your client isn’t too hungry, angry, tired or lonely before going into the meeting. 2. Ambience is everything. … [Read more...]
Coaching Tips: Being an Amazing Coach!
Without a doubt, the most important coaching tips I learned in my life coaches training were about how critically important it is to maintain a conscious presence in each coaching session, and this is attained by practicing first-rate self care and personal management. The key coaching questions to ask, outstanding inquiries to pose, and remarkable processes to use can fall flat if I don’t approach each session with my own tank filled to the max! Self Management is the Key It takes just a few … [Read more...]
Three Coaching Tips From My Journal
I have a bundle of wonderful coaching tips and tools in my tool bag. However, I sometimes forget to use the helpful tips I have faithfully filed away and by default I lean on the same old ones. So, in an effort to spice up my practice, I recently set a small goal to go through my material and review my coaching tips. For example, take affirmations. This is a very handy tool--here are three interesting affirmation coaching tips I had tucked away in my journal that you may want to try … [Read more...]
Can I Become a Life Coach?—You’ve Got to be Kidding.
Consider The Following Questions When Asking Yourself ‘Can I Become a Life Coach?’ Do I have a genuine interest in people? Do I actually want to add value to people’s lives? Am I a good listener? Am I willing to coach even if I don’t make any money? If you answered yes to these questions what are you waiting for? The next step to becoming a life coach is to find a coaching school that resonates with your needs and your pocket book. Overall, coaching methodologies are similar, so find what … [Read more...]
Career Coaching Is a Lot like Being a Button Hook Coach
Sorry if you are the last to hear, but career coaching has joined that long list of nonsense phrases like guillotine tester – nonsense phrases or titles that simply show a loss of insight or consciousness. You might still be able to squeak by as a job coach, but to be a career coach is one of the greatest oxymorons of this age. Are There no Careers or Is There no such Thing as Coaching? That is a good question: No career? or No coaching? As a coach, I vote for the “no careers” option. But … [Read more...]
How to Become a Career Coach: 2 Paths to Choose From
How to become a career coach depends on the type of career coaching you want to do. Do you want to learn how to become a coach who works for another company, or do you want to your own career coaching business? There are pros and cons to consider, as well as your own natural tendencies and style. Creating a Career As An Employed Career Coach If you’re looking for a job, the answer to how to become a career coach will be to get training and certification. Let’s face it, coaching is a dream job … [Read more...]
Careers in Wellness Coaching: Real Alchemy
Opportunities abound out there for careers in wellness coaching. Wellness coaches work with individuals and groups in supporting them to engage in healthy living. This includes areas of health such as weight management, fitness, diabetes management, nutrition, and others that impact an individual’s health. You can work individually with clients and support their healthy lifestyle changes; or work for a coaching company that contracts wellness coaching to corporations; or you can work directly … [Read more...]
Become a Certified Career Coach and Help Others Succeed
When you become a certified career coach, you can combine your own professional success with the potential to help others. If you enjoy motivating and inspiring others to create a better life, becoming a life and professional coaching expert is the ideal pathway to success. When you become a certified career coach you can teach others to achieve a professional life that provides them with financial security, goal attainment, and personal satisfaction. The professional coaching field has been … [Read more...]
How To Speak With Confidence And Impact By Persuasion
My coaching clients ask me all the time about how to speak with confidence or how to be confident and get the right people to look at you like you’re a leader who can take charge and become the leader of your family and get your team at work to be the best they can be and master the big vision that everybody wants to achieve. Confidence is the coveted emotional state of mind that you want because confidence attracts like a magnet. Combine confidence with persuasion and the potion you mix … [Read more...]
