Unleash Your Passion for People
Unleash Your Passion for People
How to become a life coach?
At New Insights we get excited when we get asked this question. That's because we're passionate about people and we're passionate about life coaching and how it can contribute to a better world.
Life coaching is an amazing career – fulfilling for the coach and inspiring for the clients.
So what does it take to become a life coach?
Let's explore this together.
If you're pressed for time watch this short summary video. It's less than 3-minutes long
Why-Become-A-Life-Coach
You may still be wondering whether life coaching it is a career you'd like to pursue?
If you're not yet sure, visit the page that deals with what life coaching is and what life coaches do.
Frankly, life coaching must rank as one of the most – if not the most – fulfilling career for people who have a passion for working with people.
As a life coach responsible for helping your clients live their best lives, you will watch them grow and develop and achieve things they never thought possible.
This is what making a difference in the world is all about :-)
When you train to become a life coach, you'll experience amazing personal development and growth in self-awareness.
We sum it up as more personal; Freedom, Confidence and Growth!
As a professional life coach, your work will never again be boring. Each client is unique, with his or her own view of the world, hopes, dreams ... and self imposed limitations or obstacles to growth.
And then there's the unrivalled flexibility that a career as a life coach can offer.
You choose the hours you want to work, when you want to work, what types of people you want to have as your clients, and so on.
What-Does-It-Take
Here are what we believe the key attribute are that you need if you are serious about wanting to become a life coach:
Honesty and Integrity
A Passion for People
An Open and Enquiring Mind
A Non Judgemental nature
A Desire to Contribute
A commitment to Personal Development
We like to say that life coaching is a career of the heart – not of the head.
So it may please you to know that you don't need any fancy degree or other academic qualification.
You don't need to be in any specific age group (although we recommend at least some life experience, say mid-20s onwards).
You certainly don't need to lead the 'perfect life' (it doesn't exists anyway!). As a life coach you are judged on your ability to facilitate the growth and development of others, not on how you live your life!
Is-Training-Required
Technically ... No.
Practically ... Absolutely YES!
The biggest mistake people make is thinking that they can set up a life coaching practice without prior comprehensive training.
This mistake is often attributed to people with extensive life exprience who wrongly assume that life coaching is some form of mentoring and involves the giving of advice.
To have the best chance of succeeding as a life coach, we recommend exposing yourself to the best training you can afford.
Life coaching is a word-of-mouth driven industry. Your success will depend on your
ability to deliver great results for your clientss. You'll need to be equipped with the necessary self-awareness, knowledge, and skill in applying various life coaching tools,
techniques and systems,
How-Long-Does-It-Take
Due to the unregulated nature of the industry, the quality of training on offer varies widely!
Be very wary of enrolling in short courses that claim to turn you into a practising life coach after just a few days, weeks or even months.
This will almost certainly end in disapointment and disillusionment.
The comprehensive New Insights Life Coach Training and Certification Programme is in-deoth and involves a total of some 300-350 hours of study and practice. It is likely to take you anywhere between 9 and 18 months to complete certification.
The cost of high quality certification training differs quite markedly from institute to institute. Many have to cover large overheads involved in physical training venues and personnel, whereas remote based training like that offered by New Insights, offers excellent value for money.
Check out the affordable fees and payment options for the New Insights certification programme.
Career-Prospects
If you prefer being in the employ of others, life coaching may not be your best option.
The great majority of life coaches start their own private life coaching practices .
And why not?
In fact this is a career that can easily be operated from home. Becoming a New Insights certified life coach can give you access to one of the very best home based business opportunities available.
When
you become a life coach and start your own practice you are in control! You decide the hours you want to work and the type of clients you prefer to work with. If working with big companies is your thing, you can easily contract out your services as an independent
A life coaching practice requires minimal capital outlay, has low operating costs and carries little risk.
If you are currently in employment and thinking of making the transition to your own life coaching practice, we recommend that you start coaching for reward only when you feel completely ready and then do so in your part time until you have established your practice and feel ready to go full time with your new career.
Training with New Insights will make this entirely practical as you study and practice in your own time and at your own pace.
Earning-Potential
You can certainly earn a decent living as a life coach!
Effective life coaches are in great demand. After all, they help people to achieve their goals and dreams, so why wouldn't they be?
Fees that life coaches charge vary dependent on experience, target market, client type and so on but most coaches charge in the range of ZAR350 to ZAR1000 per session. Sessions generally take anywhere between 60 and 90 minutes (either face-to-face or via telephone/Zoom/Skype).
A life coach's operating costs are very low and primary income can be supplemented significantly by, for example, engaging in public speaking and running personal development workshops and/or webinars.
How-To-Find-Clients
Life coaching is very much a word-of-mouth business.
Please read and digest that again!
If you prove that you can deliver great results for your clients, you'll never lack for testimonials and referrals ... and these are a coach's lifeblood!
When you first become a life coach and are just starting out, finding new clients can be a little more challenging.
But if you train with New Insights you'll be exposed to a number of practice clients, each one of which is likely to refer other friends and colleagues to you, thereby helping to build your pipeline of clients.
New Insights also offers at least three other key advantages for life coaches who are just starting out:
Interesting-Articles
We host an award-winning Blog, New Insights On Life, that contains hundreds of articles on the topic of personal development, with specific reference to life coaching.
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