More and more people want to become a life coach or business coach these days.
You too may be caught up in the excitement of how rewarding a career as a coach could be both professionally and financially. The only problem is you be may be overlooking the realities of what is involved in starting a coaching business.
There are 5 keys areas in understanding the truth about what it takes to become a coach:
Four of the leading UK Coaching Bodies created a “Statement of Shared Professional Values” at a round-table meeting in February.
Why is this important?
There are a number of coaching associations and bodies around the world, each with it’s own purpose, mission, values and standards. In order to come together as a profession, it makes sense to have some shared standards and values vs dozens of similar yet different ones. As is stated on the press release (link is below), one of the aims of the round-table is: “to co-operate to enhance the reputation of the coaching industry.” Shared values etc. does just that.
The four coaching associations who participated were:
For details of the Statement, the aim of the round-table, and the participants: Press Release
The CoachVille Tour has been shortened from 70 cities to 24 cities. It starts in San Diego on April 14th, 2008 and ends in Charlotte, NC on June 18, 2008.
In an email to subscribers, in which Dave Buck shared the reason for the revised tour, the method of the tour was also shared:
The method of the tour – create a documentary film about
coaching, share a new self employment model for professional coaches based on
PLAY! AND deliver the new Power of PLAY! event for the public to explain the
power of personal coaching – remains the same.
For more information on what a typical day on tour will look like: The Daily Tour Schedule
For the complete schedule of the CoachVille Tour visit: CoachVille Tour Dates
If you live near a city on the tour and you’re thinking about becoming a coach or you already are one, it’s worth checking out. Even if you just learn one new tidbit that you can apply to make your life or business better, it’s a win.
Before you can become a life coach, you need to know what coaching is and where it comes from.
If you’ve looked at various sites on personal or life coaching, you’ve probably noticed that their definitions of coaching vary. There isn’t a standard definition.
Before an attempt is made to define coaching, let’s start with a bit of history.
Life coaching was offered to prisoners in Scotland in an effort to support them to integrate back into the community and not re-offend. As you can imagine, if you release a person back into the same environment that landed them in jail, chances are they will end up in jail again.
Initially the results have shown that the percentage of prisoners who get jobs when they are released is 21% in the group that had coaches and less than half of that for released prisoners without them. The whole aim is to reduce the rate of re-offending, though those statistics are not yet available.
To read the entire story visit: Life Coaching for Prisoners