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Consider Whole Life Coaching

Posted by Henry Barbey

Whole life coaching has become increasingly popular for good reason. It works.

Coaches help their clients to proceed with confidence. They get them “unstuck” so to speak. People from all walks of life are seeking help because they are unfulfilled, unsuccessful, struggling or just feel like they can’t get their lives together.

There are many types of coaches. They originally spent most of their time with business executives helping them to become more successful or more productive.

The “whole life” term refers to those coaches that offer coaching in all aspects of individuals’ lives. They may provide coaching that focuses on:

• Careers

• Relationships

• Leadership ability

• Communication skills

• Goal-setting

Or all of the above. The aspects to focus on will vary depending on individual needs.

If a person is simply “lost”, the first step will be to define some goals. A personal coach helps you to do that by asking you lots of questions. The questions help the coach to figure out who you are right now and where you want to be.

Clients usually start out worried. They are not in need of psychotherapy, which involves delving into a past that could be painful. They are worried that their lives are passing them by and they need direction.

Coaches help their clients define their futures. You have the ability to have the future you want. Every person is in control of his or her own destiny. We are not being pushed forward by some undefined force. We carry ourselves forward on our own two legs.

People need different things at different times of their lives. Teen-coaching is one of the latest trends. But you could need help at any time of your life. Teens might go on to have coaches for their entire lives. It is nice to have a guide.

Choosing a whole life coach can be difficult. There has been some concern that coaches are not well trained. There are no regulations concerning the 10,000+ coaches that are currently practicing in the US alone.

The best advice is to interview a few coaches and find out about their training. If you want a lifelong guide, you want to be sure that you will not outgrow or exceed your coach’s ability to help.

Many coaches have extensive training. They have backgrounds in a variety of different careers. The thing they have in common is their desire to help other people. That’s what we do in whole life coaching. We help others to achieve success and happiness.

What Is Leadership Development Coaching?

Posted by Henry Barbey

There are many ways to grow a leader. The idea of leader development originally came from the sports world.

Benjamin Carter was one of the first life coaches. He started helping develop leaders during his career as a college football coach.

Eventually he wanted to help more people. He achieved that goal through motivational speaking and private coaching sessions, often with executives who wanted to be more effective.

Life coaches provide general guidance, support, advice and sometimes training. More specific kinds of guidance are used for emerging or prospective leaders.

Leaders need to be able to organize. They need to be able to manage their time wisely. They need to be able to remain calm during times of crisis. They need decision-making skills.

The elements included in leader development training vary. The advantage of one-on-one training is that it can be customized to suit the individual or the individual organization.

Your goal might be to become a leader. You might want to become a more effective leader. You might want the current leaders in your organization to become more effective. Every individual is different.

Helping you to identify your goals is the first step for the typical executive coach. But even that step is unnecessary if you have already identified your goals.

There is no off the shelf blueprint for teaching leaders to become more successful. You will actually develop your own blueprint as time goes by. Coaches give you the tools that you need to do that.

Ongoing support is one of the things provided by most coaches. By the time you get to the ongoing support part of the process, you will have defined your goals and created a plan for achieving them. You will know how to measure your success.

The ongoing support provided during executive coaching helps to keep you focused on your goals because it is very easy to lose sight of them. You will also get feedback, an unbiased opinion of how you are doing.

Who benefits? Individuals and organizations of all kinds benefit from focused training.

Research has shown that training alone increases productivity in the work place by over 20%. Training does not usually include the ongoing support or other coaching techniques used by professionals.

Certain leadership development coaching programs have been shown to increase productivity by over 80%. It is a win-win situation and everyone benefits.