It can be challenging finding the right fit for you in personal or professional life coaching. Personal Lifestyle Coaches work with individuals who are seeking support on their life’s journey. Whether it involves personal or professional growth they will help you as you seek answers, contemplate questions or changes in your life.
Effective Personal Lifestyle Coaches work with you to facilitate your growth, achieve your goals and address challenges with confidence. At Heartlight we believe these are some of the important components for great professional or personal lifetyle coaching.
Look for these QUALITIES in looking for the right fit:
Trustworthy
Being trustworthy is at the heart of being a terrific Personal Lifestyle Coach. It is so important that the client feels comfortable and safe with her or his coach. Conversations and communication need to be open and genuine so that the coach can guide their client through the journey to personal growth.
Active and Engaged Listener
One of the most important qualities of a coach is the skill it takes to be an active and engaged listener. Being attuned to what the client is saying is invaluable when it comes to helping him or her process and set meaningful goals.
Non-judgmental
As the coach listens and interacts with the client, the coach affirms and encourages and never judges. Displaying humility, the coach will evoke from the client a true sharing of ideas and perspectives.
Experienced and Well-educated
The amount of experience in the profession of coaching is important. The training and education that the coach possesses, provides the client with a reassurance that his or her needs will be effectively met and the quality of the partnership is based upon solid ground.
Problem-solver
The ability to provide the client with a variety of strategies and solutions to consider is imperative in finding the right fit. Motivating the client to discover and examine a variety of potential solutions, and then to enable him or her in selecting meaningful goals based upon this process.
Compassionate
A great coach will always come from a stance of compassion for the client’s needs and experiences. Being compasionate will foster honest and authentic conversation and will enable the coach to better understand the client’s journey. It will also allow the coach to be able to search for ideas, solutions and strategies that will work.
Creative
Assisting the client to think creatively in addition to critically will give her or him more options and will inspire the client to honestly think out of the box. When critical thinking and creativity partner, miracles can happen!
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