Becoming a Professional Life Coach: Lessons from the Institute of Life Coach Training

ISBN-13: 9780393708363 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 480 str.

Diane S. Menendez; Patrick Williams

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Moving seamlessly from coaching fundamentals--listening skills, effective language, session preparation--to more advanced ideas such as helping clients to identify life purpose, recognize and combat obstacles, align values and actions, maintain a positive mind-set, and live with integrity, this new edition is one-stop-shopping for beginner and advanced coaches alike. Beginning with a brief history of the foundations of coaching and its future trajectory, Becoming a Professional Life Coach takes readers step-by-step through the coaching process, covering all the crucial ideas and techniques for being a successful life coach, including: - Listeningto, versus listening for, versus listening with - Establishing a client's focu - Giving honest feedback and observatio - Formulating first coaching conversation - Asking powerful, eliciting question - Understanding human developmental issue - Reframing a client's perspectiv - Enacting change with client - Helping clients to identify and fulfill core values, and much, much more All the major skillsets for empowering and "stretching" clients are covered. By filling the pages with client exercises, worksheets, sample dialogues, and self-assessments, Williams and Menendez give readers a hands-on coaching manual to expertly guide their clients to purposeful, transformative lives Today, with more and more therapists incorporating coaching into their practices, and the number of master certified coaches, many with niche expertise, growing every year, Becoming a Professional Life Coach fills a greater need than ever. By tackling the nuts and bolts of coaching, Williams and Menendez equip readers with the tools and techniques they need to make a difference in their clients' lives.