Why Be An NLP Coach?
Personal and business coaching has become
a significant and respectable business over the last few years.
Look around and you will find that the most successful people you know
have coaches. Celebrities and sports figures have personal coaches
in addition to whatever organized coaching their profession provides.
A coach can help you push beyond the
normal limit at which you would most likely stop. In addition, a
good coach can help you focus your efforts for maximum results.
Starting from the Inner Game of Tennis books written by Galwey in the
1970's, coaching has now moved from sports coaching to the executive
business level, financial coaching, and even into personal life issues.
If you are interested in becoming a
coach, there are a lot of avenues out there for pursuing your goal.
However, you want to make a smart choice that is right for you.
The quality of training to be a coach varies tremendously. Most of
the coach training programs out there are giving people skills for
dealing with change.
How did coaching get to be so big all
of a sudden?
Obviously, coaching works. People
are willing to pay for ways to be more effective, efficient, and
profitable in today's fast paced world. A driving question behind
this movement toward personal excellence is, "How can I do more, be
more, and enjoy life."
Learning organizations like Coach U and
Coachville may have started a fervor with easliy accessible and
affordable distance-learning internet-based curriculums. From
Psychotherapists who have been displaced and disillusioned with the
advent of HMO and other medical health plan providers, to experienced
corporate executives who have left the corporate ranks, a new career in
coaching has continued to look like a viable alternative to traditional
jobs.
An online search will now show links to
major universities and other educational organizations including Adler
University, a traditional school for the study of Psychology.
Offices for these organizations have expanded into various cities.
A large number of coaching associations have popped up. The most
successful and influential to date is the International Federation of
Coaches or ICF.
Many of these organizations make
distinctions between Life Coaching often referred to Personal Coaching
and Executive Coaching, also known as Business Coaching. Factors
that affect an individuals decision to become one kind of coach or the
other include:
Availability - "This is the
training I found out about." "It was distance learning on the
internet."
Affordability - "I couldn't afford to go
to a seminar with one of the big-time NLP trainers." "The college
courses were expensive and took a really long time."
Time considerations - "Can't I do it all
in a couple of weeks?" "Can I do it on weekends?"
And here's the real rub. You just
can't get this type of training from most of those organizations.
Neuro Linguistic Programming is an experiential science. By and
large you are not going to 'get it' by reading books and articles or in
the form of a traditional learning environment.
In What Areas Can I Facilitate My
Coaching Clients
I believe it is a good idea to have a
list of areas that my coaching work may apply. I have my clients
circle the ones that apply to them personally. The strategy is to
have the individual connecting the work we will do beyond the area of
the problem or issue they are presenting. Here is a partial list:
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Get a promotion
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Deal with conflict
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Handle complaints
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Handle loss of job
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Management skills
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Hire and fire
people
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Get to the real
issue
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Influence with integrity
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Produce results faster
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Acknowledging successes
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Become an effective leader
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Build committed
partnership
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Be a full player on your team
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"Wire in" states of excellence
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Build deep and
lasting rapport
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Change your personal history
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Set and achieve goals/outcomes
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Deal with upsets/negative feelings
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Attract and maintain a relationship
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Noticing quantum shifts in yourself
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Recover from difficult life
experiences
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Discover Core Values and eliminate
values binds
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Design your life vs. being a victim
of circumstances
Ask Good Questions
You will also learn to ask good
questions. People often know what they don't want but you may have
to work with them to get to what they do want. When you have
identified the outcome, there are specific questions that should be
asked in any coaching session. What if you had a way to quickly
and easily determine what work will be done, in what order, and know
what resources will be necessary to get your client the outcome they
congruently want in life? You will learn to ask good questions;
the right questions to insure you are achieving results with any
coaching client.
Learn Specific NLP Life-Change Patterns
This separates NLP Coaching from other
coaching disciplines. Most do not provide you with what to do to
create change in your coaching client. NLP is about change!
Life-long habits and limiting behaviors often disappear permanently in
only a few minutes with NLP Coaching. See the website for more
detail on changing behavior with NLP Coaching.
The Coaching Model and Making Money
Every business has to make a profit to
justify it's existence. This is a primary lesson every business
coach should be teaching. As mentioned earlier, lots of
psychological counselors and other therapists have turned to coaching
for a livelihood. NLP Coaching offers a model for charging for
coaching clients up front before services are rendered on a
retainer-type basis. I used to operate more like a counselor.
I would set up sessions and if a client did not show up for a session,
it was at best awkward to collect for the lost time. Now, the
psychology is in the right place. It is the responsibility of the
client to make all scheduled sessions or to communicate in plenty of
time if they cannot. They have already paid and I have them pay by
time period and not by individual session.
In addition, you will get specific
coaching on how to set up an NLP Coaching practice in your training.
There are lots of ways to market yourself and you may find some of the
ideas and experience you gain to be of value in developing your
business.
The Rea Rewards
As with almost any business, the real
reward is in the enjoyment of the work you will do. You will be
providing a real-life positive value to people who will want to repay in
more ways than dollars. I have people telling me years later what
an positive impact I had on their lives.
Get Your NLP Coach Training NOW!
Contact Bill Thomason 602 440-3578V/M or
602 321-7192cell. Check out the rest of the website.
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