What is the Role of a Life Coach?

You might be asking yourself, what does a life coach do exactly?

The role of a life coach is to guideand support people in realizing their dreams. A life coach provides a safe place to explore thoughts, feelings, emotions and goals. A coach is a partner to walk through life with. One that holds no judgment, no ulterior motives and no attachment to your decisions. Coaches offer people the freedom to work through issues without the pressure to please anyone but themselves.

Life coaches are skilled and trained to unearth what holds people back from living their best lives. Much of the training to become a coach is focused on unlearning flawed communication styles that are embedded in our culture. Coaches learn to listen for beliefs- not problems. They learn to ask questions to reveal information for the coachee, not for the coach. They learn to hold space, not wait to speak.

When you become a coach you learn knowing what you want is not enough to get it. The number one difference between people who achieve their goals and those who don’t is one simple question: what are you willing to do to get what you want?

A qualified, certified life coaches are trained to ask appreciative questions to uncover potential and harness strengths to help others achieve life-long change.

What Are 3 Key Points a Life Coach Can Help With?

When coming up with life-changing strategies, there are 3 key points a life coach can help others with:

-          Realizing “dreams”

-          Personal Growth

-          Making positive changes

Your role as a life coach is to partner with people to help them move past unconscious goals that are derailing their lives. Coaches use inquiry to draw out the feelings, thoughts and “noise” that get in the way of realizing goals. Life coaches are backed by holistic approaches to promote mind-body connection. They focus on wellbeing to achieve fulfillment and purpose.

ICF Coaches are supported by tools, strategies and techniques that help them hone their craft and achieve powerful results for their clients. With a proven framework, certified coaches learn the skill of building momentum in coaching conversations to empower others to own their results all the while building momentum to change their behaviors and ultimately change their lives. 

What Are The Skills Needed To Fulfill The Role of a Coach?

Almost everyone who comes to our certification has been told by someone in their lives “you should be a coach!”. That is often the spark that gets people to start exploring coaching as a career path and it’s the first sign someone has what we call “coaching DNA”.

Aside from training and certification, successful life coaches:

-          Love to connect to others

-          Are genuinely curious about others

-          Have the desire to help others grow and succeed

-          Are open minded and self-managed

-          Have a strong network of personal and professional contacts

-          Are empathetic, kind, caring and thoughtful

-          Have life experience that connects them to struggle, challenge and conviction

-          Love to learn and are committed to self-growth

If this sounds like you, you have what it takes to be a life coach!A fulfilling career in this invaluable role is at your fingertips. All programs on virtual and easily accessible. There is no better time than now to get started!

How can CCA Help You Fulfill Your Role as a Life Coach?

Canada Coach Academy is on a mission to train and mentor world class coaches so that together we can help others live their best lives, one conversation at a time. When people are living their best lives, the world is at peace and everyone is fulfilled.

When you belong to ourglobal network of professional coaches you are surrounded by like-minded people who believe what you believe- that connection is the path to well-being. With a number of ICF accredited programs to set you on the right path, Canada Coach Academy is devoted to your success as a coach and is right there with you, every step of the way. 

Become a coach today to start changing lives now.

No Better Time to be a Coach

In these uncertain times, you may be looking for meaning and purpose. A way of connecting even while we must remain physically distant. Have you always thought of  becoming a coach? There’s no better time to be a coach than right now!

It’s normal to feel alone and unsure about the future during this difficult time, but it’s important to remember that you are not alone. Even with social distancing measures in place, there are ways to continue making human connections. In fact, you should find ways to connect with others, especially now.

Life Coaching helps you connect with others and gives you purpose. Connection and purpose are extremely vital, especially during times of crisis.

There’s no better time for self improvement and learning something new  than right now. In a changing world, it’s always best to learn how to adapt and change along with it. Change is not easy and it forces us out of our comfort zones. As a coach, you would be honing your communication skills and learning how to have the types of conversations that help people push past the discomfort to arrive at self discovery and self improvement. Coaching is about change. And helping people navigate change is relevant now more than ever.

Crisis Brings Change

Can change be a good thing? As a life coach, you can be there to help people navigate through the changes in their lives that are, most often, scary and uncomfortable.

Change is uncomfortable and that’s why we often think of it as a negative thing. But change should be uncomfortable because it means pushing past your boundaries and your comfort zones and that is what forces you to grow. This crisis is forcing many people to take a look at their lives. Maybe they’re thinking of making changes or taking risks that they would not have considered before.

So why is there no better time than now to be a coach?

Because now more than ever, people need safe spaces to share and explore their feelings and emotions and someone to guide them and support them through this uncertain, confusing time. A coach can be a much needed partner through all of this.

People are reassessing their lives and thinking about what really matters and they might discover that it’s time for a change. And as a coach you can help guide and support them in realizing their dreams.

Find Your Purpose

How Can you start helping as a life Coach?

Right now many things may seem out of your control and that can cause some anxiety so it’s important to stay healthy both physically and mentally. Maintaining a routine, making sure to stay active and learning new skills can help you regain some sense of control and alleviate some of the stress caused by all this uncertainty.

Take this opportunity to find your purpose through the IFC coaching Programs at Canada Coach Academy. Become a life coach and start helping others realizes their dreams today!

Coaches are Change Agents

What are change agents? And how can you become a coach that acts as a change agent?

Change agents are focused on making changes within systems. These can include changes in an organization between leaders and their teams, between different teams, between team members, or changes within an individual.

Because no one lives in a vacuum, coaches are, essentially, always coaching or creating changes within some type of “system” whether that’s a team, an organization, or a person.

But, more importantly, change agents seek to make real, meaningful changes for the betterment of each of these systems.

Coaches are change agents because they affect change by creating an environment where people can be heard. Often dysfunctional systems stem from a lack of listening, empathy, and understanding on the part of each individual in that system.

As change agents, coaches can create changes for the better and allow systems to function much more effectively and with increased performance by providing these listening spaces.

Creating Real Change

As change agents, what are some effective ways coaches can help leaders, teams, and individuals? What approach works best to bring about real, long-lasting change?

There are several approaches that change agents can use to create change. When coaches are change agents, they use an approach that can create real, long-lasting changes because they are coming from a place of empathy and reflection. A place of non-judgement that allows for things to come to light, for introspection and for new ideas to come forth.

Coaches help individuals and organizations to help themselves by creating safe spaces where individuals, leaders, and organizations can ask the right questions without fear of judgement. They are a means by which people can see themselves and their environment more clearly. A guide that allows individuals, teams, and organizations to find their own paths to success.

Lighting the Way

As a coach and change agent, you’re a partner and a guide on a journey. You are there to shedlight so that the path can become visible.

When coaches act as change agents, they shed light on the entire system, bringing awareness on an individual level, but also causing that awareness to permeate throughout the organization. Guiding individuals to ask the right questions about themselves, but also to ask the right questions in relation to team members, leaders, and the organization itself.

When coaches listen and individuals feel heard, they can begin to see themselves and their relationships with every member in the system more clearly. They realize they are part of something bigger and they understand how they fit in the whole. This clears the way for empathy and an understanding of self and others within the organization. And this makes room for positive change, bonding, and growth.

This empathy and understanding facilitates change because when individuals understand how they fit in a system and that they are part of something, they become invested in it and its success. 

Canada Coach Academy can help you guide individuals and organizations toward change for the better as a coach and change agent!