Coaching certification turned my life up side down. It was like surviving a tornado. Being coachable is the number one reason why I've been able to succeed. To get certified, you need to be fully committed to spend 15 hours a week with your feet to the grind grudging through your written assignments and peer coaching sessions. You'll go through a real psychological upheaval for the better. Once you come out on the other side of the certification tornado, you have the keys to motivation, … [Read more...]
Coaching Scandals And Lack Of Coaching Certification: Related?
No kind of formal coaching certification is required to call yourself a life coach. Is that a problem? I never thought so. But recently in the news there have been two horrific events in our profession. One was a sex scandal involving sexual abuse of a client by someone calling himself a life coach. The other was the tragedy of three people dying because they stayed in a sweat lodge unmonitored and beyond endurance at the exhortation, although not command, of a well respected coach. So … [Read more...]
Do You Need To Be Certified To Be A Life Coach Or Is Coaching Certification A Waste of Time?
Coaching certification is great, but do you need to be certified to be a life coach? What reasons are there for getting a coaching certification? These are great questions to ask if you want to be a life coach. One popular reason to get coaching certification would be to learn coaching techniques. Another reason would be to help your prospects believe you are qualified to coach them. Yet another reason could be that you believe you will get more clients than someone who does not have a … [Read more...]
How to Become a Success Coach: What You Need More than a Life Coach Degree
If you want to become a success coach you’ll need a lot more than a life coach degree. You may be thinking, what could be more important than a life coach degree? But it is your beliefs that supply the foundation for success. They are passive memory; the instruction manual for how you operate. Therefore, it follows that to become a success coach, you will need to make sure your beliefs support you. The Importance of Your Beliefs When You Become a Success Coach How do beliefs dictate the … [Read more...]
Coaching Certification ‘Criteria’: What do You Need to Become a Coach?
When You Become a Coach, Do You Need to be Concerned About Coaching Certification 'Criteria'? The International Coach Federation (ICF) has certain coaching certification ‘criteria’ if you want to become a coach who has some credentials after your name. The ICF has 3 levels of certification, each with separate coaching certification ‘criteria’. Some people see certification as a valuable requirement to become a coach; others see it as a ‘money pit’. Which is it? Become a coach who makes your own … [Read more...]
Prestigious Life Coaching Certification: Is it The Fast Track to Become a Life Coach?
Prestigious Life Coaching Certification Realities: Become a Life Coach and Get on Food Stamps There are a lot of coaches training programs that are mass producing “coaches”, each offering their own version of a prestigious life coaching certification. But really, what does a prestigious life coaching certification mean to you? Does it mean you have become a life coach who can help anyone? Does it mean you have become a life coach who has a steady schedule of paying clients? According to an … [Read more...]
Do You Need a Degree to be a Life Coach? Does Becoming a Coach Require a Life Coach Degree?
Becoming a Coach Can be Challenging, But do You Need a Degree to be a Life Coach? One of the questions that people who are looking into becoming a coach wonder is, “Do you need a degree to be a life coach?” There are some key elements to becoming a coach, and at the end of this article you will be able to tell me the answer to the question, “Do you need a degree to be a life coach.” Becoming a coach takes leadership. Basically to become a coach who provides results, you need to be able to … [Read more...]
Secrets to Getting Top Salary of a Life Coach: Business Coaching Certification the Coaching Schools Don’t Understand
There is one secret technique to getting top salary of a life coach that isn't based upon the ability to psychoanalyse your client, or have some great 'intuition'. You can't learn this skill with some business coaching certification, nor can you produce great results without it (unless you get top salary of a life coach simply because you are a guru already!) The Secret to Top Salary of a Life Coach: Truth I know it doesn't sound like much, but the TRUTH is seldom the center of the focus when … [Read more...]
When You Become a Certified Life Coach, are You Certified in The Steps to Becoming a Life Coach That is Successful?
Is the Top Life Coaching School in America Teaching the Steps to Becoming a Life Coach With "Client Getting" Power? I just talked with a few principles from some of the top coaching schools in America, and I realized that although they may understand the steps to becoming a life coach, they seem to not care about teaching it to their students. A certified life coach has some real challenges in front of them if they are to get coaching clients in this marketplace, and you aren't going to learn … [Read more...]
Think It’s Time to Get Your Life Coach Accreditation? The Enemy of All Rational Coaching Thought: Professional Coaching Certification
The Lie of Professional Coaching Certification .is a whole lot of BS. Really. We are coaches, and we're supposed to help people think outside the box, right? . Instead, we try to go and get our life coach accreditation... trying to get into a 'box' ourselves. We have to get our professional coaching certification so we can fit into the great 'coaching guru's' definition of coaching, and then think that we are done with our coaching skills education. Now all the coaching we're doing is … [Read more...]
