You want to become a life coach. What are the most important skills you need to develop?

Becoming a successful life coach requires a combination of skills, both interpersonal and professional. Helping clients identify obstacles, set achievable goals, and develop action plans to overcome challenges is a fundamental aspect of life coaching. 1?? Embrace challenges and look for chances to grow. 2?? Learn from failures, adapt, and try again. 3?? Celebrate others' success. 4?? Respect the opportunity. 5?? Seek feedback. 6?? Keep learning. Empowering your clients on their journey towards personal growth and fulfillment as a life coach is key in this field.

To excel as a life coach, you need 1. Stellar communication skills. 2. Empathy and compassion. 3. Interpersonal skills. 4. Active listening. 5. Emotional intelligence. 6. Problem-solving. 7. Goal-setting. 8. Empower clients. 9. Maintain boundaries. 10. Continuously learn. Plus, grasp marketing and business basics if you're self-employed. Mastering these skills ensures success in this fulfilling profession.

Two ears and one mouth for a reason. You need to listen to understand. Listen to what is being said and listen to what is not being said. A skill to harness on its own. You do less talking for the most part, as a coach if you want to get the most from the experience.

To me, given the times we live in, is at the top. Most people are listening to themselves. When this changes, culturally everywhere, not a bad thing to wish for, then the next priority is leadership.

Developing active listening skills is the #1 skill to becoming a successful life coach. Learning to be curious about the client takes understanding what one is saying. This can be done by writing down what the client is saying, and watching their body language and facial expressions. Once this skill is developed, a life coach can help direct their client to transformation because the coach understands their client's needs.

An approach I follow in goal setting is set by the precedence of these questions : 1. Who am I? 2. Where am I ? 3. Where do I see myself? The who am I and where am I questions are often subtly followed by the "Where do I come from" which encourages a person to look back at the past, it's impact on the present and figure in the goal setting process.

Una gran llave de vida es aprender a hacerse responsable de lo que se es responsable. La inteligencia emocional tiene muchos pilares. El autoconocimiento, saber quíen eres, cómo reacciones, tus necesidades, deseos, capacidades. Reconocer tus cambios, tus tiempos ayuda en la enorma habilidad de saber regular los impulsos. Las palabras construyen puentes y tambien tienen la capacidad de generar heridas y división. La meditación pasiva y activa, la autontemplación son buenas practicas. Ayudan a contruir buenas relación con otros y contigo misma.

Personal growth and development should become a priority. Don't become a know it all. You can learn a lot from the people you coach. You need to actively seek out enriching avenues for yourself especially if you have a specific niche that you are solely focused on. It's vital to learn, learn and learn. Be a life long learner, and you'll never go wrong.

I completely agree that continuous learning is crucial to the effectiveness and success of any life coach and it is something that I believe the majority of us (myself included) truly enjoy. Listening to podcasts or taking online classes doesn’t take long and can be easily incorporated into daily life. I recommend “Everything life coaching” for great podcast episodes. Anything by Adam Grant is fantastic reading material and Udemy offers engaging and extremely affordable online classes to supplement our life coach training.

To become a successful life coach, develop strong communication skills to listen actively, ask probing questions, and convey empathy. Cultivate the ability to build trust and rapport with clients while maintaining professional boundaries. Hone your coaching techniques, including goal and boundary setting, action planning, and accountability strategies. Continuously work on your self-awareness and emotional intelligence to better understand and support your clients. Additionally, stay updated on industry trends and best practices to provide relevant and effective coaching services.

Be coached before you attempt to coach others. Learn experientially. How do you feel when you are being coached? Apply your experience of being coached to when you are the coach. Learn from the good as well as things you would do differently. Develop your awareness of the most subtle and fleeting changes in the person you are coaching. Notice how you are feeling; it may be what the other person is experiencing. Eg need to take a deep breath; tightness in the gut, etc. It helps if you take the deep breath & relax the gut. Then they will mirror that.

Learn how to keep your ego out of the coaching conversation. Why? Because it's not about you. For me, the important skill is self-awareness. It allows me to recognize projections and transference, to offer how something resonates as part of the "coach as instrument" piece, and to stay out of my client's business. I'm always so tempted to measure my quality as a coach by how many "a-ha's" I can give my clients in an hour. But I've come to realize that coaching is not "show and tell" (although I do offer some of that in express educating/teaching moments). Quality coaching is "listen and encourage". So, know yourself, and you'll know what the clients might be triggering in you, so you can avoid pushing your stuff back onto them.

There are a bunch of ingredients and I have found the most important is asking deeper questions. If the client has a certain belief it changes every single outlook in their life. Looking at that one belief and where it was created can change everything instead of assessing each little choice in life. We have a core belief that drives itself into every decision.

All the above 6 points are very important. However, they should all be within a safe space. If the coachee doesn't feel safe, they won't benefit as much as they would in a safe environment. This safety entails being in a judgement-free environment. So a very crucial skill is learning how to not judge others. The belief that every person took the best decision available to them at that time is very important. As life coaches we are here to help the person as it suits them best, not to judge them. Another important thing to note is that it will be evident from the questions and tone of voice while asking questions if the coach is being judgmental or not - hence, the importance of this skill to be acquired.