What is Coaching?
Today, coaching is a recognized discipline used by many professionals engaged in personal development. Personal Developement requires taking a hard look at yourself, consciously deciding what kind of person you truly are on the inside, and then getting your actions to line up with your true self. The goal is to help you achieve outstanding effectiveness while your thoughts, feelings, actions, and skills are all working together to create the life you truly desire.
Coaching is a method of directing, instructing and training a person or group of people, with the aim to achieve some goal or develop specific skills. There are many ways to coach, types of coaching and methods to coaching.
What is a Certified Coach?
A Certified Coach is someone who has been trained by a professional coaching school, judged by their peers and instructors to be effective as a coach and have successfully met all others requirements for certification. A coach is a combination of partner, advocate, confidante, facilitator, mentor, strategist, and nudge. A coach provides structure, support, resources, and endless encouragement while the client actively manifests their goals.
How is Therapy and Life Coaching Different?
- Therapy is — Treatment intended to cure or alleviate an illness or injury, whether physical or mental.
- Life Coaching is — all about moving forward, taking action and accountability. People receive results a lot faster when they learn to act on their own behalf, rather than if they spend countless hours re-hashing the past.
- Having a Life coach is — something people share and are proud of. Having a coach implies that a person is already somewhat successful. As you are aware, all high achievers, top athletes and executives have coaches to help them get to their next big thing.