Beauty of Coaching
If you have been paying attention to the progress of health/wellness, you may notice that coaching is becoming HOT! My guess is that in another 5 years, coaching will be as mainstream as personal training is, today.
What is the benefit of coaching? It makes you, the person, in charge of you! No longer is an expert telling what works best for you to do in order to improve your health. As the expert in you, you come up with what you want to accomplish and then determine how you will make it happen! And, a coach makes you feel like you can actually do it, too! How much more empowering can that be?
But there are still a lot of people who don’t trust coaching. They don’t understand it; don’t understand the value of having someone in their corner. Many men feel that ‘I don’t need someone to tell me what I should be able to figure out on my own!’ However, today many of the most successful people in the world have coaches in order to accomplish more!
How can you find a coach, though? If you are reading this online, you already have the tools to find a qualified coach! Now, it’s important that you understand that anyone can call themselves a coach. However, look for what school they attended, and then research the school. Although there are a few quality coaching schools that are not affiliated with the International Coach Federation (ICF), this is the gold standard. When I look for a coach, I prefer they have attended a school that is listed on the ICF website. WellCoaches is one of the schools not affiliated with ICF, yet, but is an excellent school.
Once you have found where the coaches are, though, then you must determine which coach is for you! One of the many beauties of looking for a coach is you can ‘try them on’, so to speak. Many coaches offer a free coaching interview to see if the two of you are a good fit. Many coaches today specialize, too.
So, since our primary focus is health on here, if you are looking for a wellness/health coach, look for someone with a medical background who is also educated in coaching techniques. Avoid coaches who say their education is because they lost weight, or because they have a particular disease. These are NOT the experts you want helping you move forward with your own health issues. If you had cancer, would you choose a physician who specializes in cancer or the woman down the street who had cancer and beat it?
The beauty of coaching is you are in the driver’s seat. Get control of your health and life and treat yourself to feeling in control again by finding yourself a coach to help.
For WellCoaches, go to this link: http://www.wellcoach.com/
For ICF, go to this link: http://www.coachfederation.org/ICF/
What is the benefit of coaching? It makes you, the person, in charge of you! No longer is an expert telling what works best for you to do in order to improve your health. As the expert in you, you come up with what you want to accomplish and then determine how you will make it happen! And, a coach makes you feel like you can actually do it, too! How much more empowering can that be?
But there are still a lot of people who don’t trust coaching. They don’t understand it; don’t understand the value of having someone in their corner. Many men feel that ‘I don’t need someone to tell me what I should be able to figure out on my own!’ However, today many of the most successful people in the world have coaches in order to accomplish more!
How can you find a coach, though? If you are reading this online, you already have the tools to find a qualified coach! Now, it’s important that you understand that anyone can call themselves a coach. However, look for what school they attended, and then research the school. Although there are a few quality coaching schools that are not affiliated with the International Coach Federation (ICF), this is the gold standard. When I look for a coach, I prefer they have attended a school that is listed on the ICF website. WellCoaches is one of the schools not affiliated with ICF, yet, but is an excellent school.
Once you have found where the coaches are, though, then you must determine which coach is for you! One of the many beauties of looking for a coach is you can ‘try them on’, so to speak. Many coaches offer a free coaching interview to see if the two of you are a good fit. Many coaches today specialize, too.
So, since our primary focus is health on here, if you are looking for a wellness/health coach, look for someone with a medical background who is also educated in coaching techniques. Avoid coaches who say their education is because they lost weight, or because they have a particular disease. These are NOT the experts you want helping you move forward with your own health issues. If you had cancer, would you choose a physician who specializes in cancer or the woman down the street who had cancer and beat it?
The beauty of coaching is you are in the driver’s seat. Get control of your health and life and treat yourself to feeling in control again by finding yourself a coach to help.
For WellCoaches, go to this link: http://www.wellcoach.com/
For ICF, go to this link: http://www.coachfederation.org/ICF/
posted by Margie Geiser, MBA, RD, NSCA-CPT at
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