One of the problems that the industry of professional life coaching seems to have is an identity crisis. \u00a0Wether it’s co-active coaching or NLP life coaching<\/a>, no one seems to know just what the definition of coaching<\/a> really is. \u00a0I was at a party tonight and people were asking me questions when I told them that I ran a coaching company. \u00a0They asked things like, “What do you teach?”. \u00a0“Are you about marketing?”. \u00a0“Do you motivate people?” \u00a0I always knew that life coaching and it’s brethren have lots of misconceptions in the ‘real world’ about what we do and how we do it.<\/p>\n You would think that having a definition of coaching<\/strong> would help this little identity crisis. \u00a0If we could only DEFINE this thing called executive coaching or life coaching or whatever, then we could help people understand what it is and what life coaching is about. \u00a0I guess in a way we’d be supplying life coaching training to everyone, and they would see us just as any other profession.<\/p>\n Although the definition of coaching<\/strong> is simple, and discusses everything you’d hope (working together to produce a specific result, etc.) \u00a0Those same misconceptions and mistakes that my new friends at the party had would still be there, even if they knew the ‘certified’ definition of coaching<\/span>.<\/p>\n Look at something more specific, like NLP life coaching<\/strong>. \u00a0there are tons of techniques that NLP life coaching<\/strong> envelops. \u00a0NLP originally was a modeling technology, but then people began to mistake it for\u00a0therapeutic\u00a0techniques. \u00a0Now people look at NLP life coaching<\/span> as hypnosis or manipulation mind tricks. \u00a0How far can you go off the deep end trying to define something as broad as NLP life coaching<\/span>? \u00a0The trouble is that NLP life coaching is even more specifically defined in terms of the skills and results involved that just general coaching doesn’t have to deal with. \u00a0The definition of coaching wont help with clarity around coaching and a further definition won’t help with clarity about NLP.<\/p>\nNLP Life Coaching Takes the Test<\/h3>\n
The Definition of Coaching Still Lives On…<\/h3>\n