{"id":1524,"date":"2009-06-14T13:00:51","date_gmt":"2009-06-14T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2023-05-19T19:15:07","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T03:15:07","slug":"the-3-biggest-problems-with-life-coaching-different-techniques-coaches-use-to-overcome-them-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/the-3-biggest-problems-with-life-coaching-different-techniques-coaches-use-to-overcome-them-part-one\/","title":{"rendered":"The 3 Biggest Problems With Life Coaching and The Different Techniques Coaches Use To Overcome Them: Part ONE"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you knew what the 3 biggest problems with life coaching<\/strong><\/a> were, you’d be quite surprised.\u00a0 No matter what people say their problems are, and no matter what the personal development ‘gurus’ say about the problems with success and life, the different techniques coaches use to overcome life problems have been varied.\u00a0 Some of these different techniques coaches use are effective and some aren’t.\u00a0 When I first became a life coach, I found that I couldn’t help the majority of my clients.\u00a0 It was really disheartening.\u00a0 Here I am, supposed to be the ‘life coach’ that is going to solve your problems and help you get the results that are eluding you, and instead you drop a lot of coin and have nothing to show for it but time on the phone with me.<\/p>\n

The 3 Biggest Problems With Life Coaching are All Based Upon the Fact That, Even With The Different Techniques Coaches Use, People Don’t Look at Themselves as The Source of Their own Problems<\/h3>\n

Soon after the realization that I wasn’t effective as a coach, I closed the doors to my coaching practice and revamped the entire thing.\u00a0 That’s also when I learned (by the school of hard knocks, mind you) the 3 biggest problems with life coaching<\/strong> (at least the 3 biggest problems with life coaching<\/span> as I served it).\u00a0 I was also lucky enough to be a part of a community of coaches at the time that showed me the different techniques coaches use to overcome the problems that I was experiencing (and needed badly to overcome if I was going to stay in business for much longer).<\/p>\n

Life Coaching Problem #1 of The 3 Biggest Problems With Life Coaching: Coach Being a ‘Friend’ (and The Different Techniques Coaches Use to Stop The \u2018Friend Trap\u2019)<\/h3>\n

Coaches many times create one of the 3 biggest problems with life coaching<\/strong> by being too much of a friend too much of the time.\u00a0 Your #1 job as a coach is not to be your client\u2019s friend.\u00a0 That doesn’t mean that you can’t be a friend at all, it simply means that it is not your #1 priority, and frankly sometimes being a friend is the worst role to take on with your coaching clients.\u00a0 Some of the different techniques coaches use take you way out of friend mode and make you the drill-sergeant, angel (or devil) on your coaching client’s shoulder, psychologist, or chief antagonist \/ provocateur.\u00a0 Would you think it’s your job as a coach at times to simply bully your client?\u00a0 Sometimes that’s EXACLY the right action to take with your client (if you know what you’re doing and how to work through the tension you create).<\/p>\n

Avoid the 3 Biggest Problems With Life Coaching By Using the Different Techniques Coaches Use to Stop Being a Friend and Start Being a Coach<\/h3>\n

When you are a friend first and a coach second (at least during coaching sessions), you will limit your effectiveness as a coach.\u00a0 The 3 biggest problems with life coaching all are similar to this \u2018friend\u2019 issue and you must learn the different techniques coaches use to overcome it.\u00a0 If you stop being a friend and start being a coach at the right times in your coaching sessions, you\u2019re clients will surprise you by thanking you profusely for your honesty and \u2018tough love\u2019 and you\u2019ll find that they are more your friend than they ever were before.<\/p>\n

Jeffrey T. Sooey
\nCEO, JTS Advisors
\nFounder, Coaches Training Blog community<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you knew what the 3 biggest problems with life coaching were, you’d be quite surprised.\u00a0 No matter what people say their problems are, and no matter what the personal development ‘gurus’ say about the problems with success and life, the different techniques coaches use to overcome life problems have been varied.\u00a0 Some of these […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[180,181],"tags":[969,970],"class_list":["post-1524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-3-biggest-problems-with-life-coaching","category-different-techniques-coaches-use","tag-3-biggest-problems-with-life-coaching","tag-different-techniques-coaches-use","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28922,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions\/28922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}