Explore Coaching

There are as many types of coaches as there are people. Coaching is where your life experience, business expertise, and people skills count for something.

Coaches come from a wide variety of backgrounds including: corporate, education, consulting, communications, law, health care, and others.

Ten Attributes of Successful Coaches

• Have a strong sense of self, value themselves intrinsically, are confident and show up authentically.
• Willing to evolve and develop themselves.
• Listen at the deepest levels, know how to filter out their own emotions, judgments and conclusions.
• Genuinely curious about people, have a healthy sense of humor and humility.
• Live from high personal integrity, walk their talk, tell the truth, know how to get their own needs met.
• Open to, not attached to outcome, can make themselves blank for the client’s agenda and solutions to emerge.
• Financially stable, think and act like an entrepreneur and business owner.
• Balanced in life, have a strong support system.
• Have good boundaries, knows that the client knows what is best for them.
• Intuitive, courageous, creative, willing to take the chance of being wrong.
• Becoming A Coach

Become a life coach with Coach Training Alliance

Chances are you already know a great deal of what it takes to be a good coach. There is an equally good chance there are some things that will hold you back—or stop you altogether— without the proper instruction.

We all have “pockets of ignorance.” This is not a bad thing. After all, we can’t be experts in everything. The goal is to discover how many pockets and how deep those pockets are.

If you’re the person people instinctively come to for help and support, or for a shoulder to lean on, you’re probably already “coaching” at a certain level.

You may be saying, “I know I could be good at this and I’m convinced I will be a great coach one day. But how do I get there from where I am now?”

There’s no better way to do it except to immerse yourself in the process and gain experience. Some schools will have you go through years of training, spend thousands of dollars, and graduate BEFORE you begin coaching real clients.

The best training ground is actual coaching in real-world situations. You can immediately apply your newfound knowledge directly with real clients. CTA training programs allow you to put your new skills in context, try them out, and make them relative to your previous experience.

If you wait to start coaching until you have mastered it, you’ll never begin. That is, after all, why they call it a practice.

Good training doesn’t need to be expensive or take years to complete. A good coaching program combines:

• Quality curriculum and resources you can read and discuss in class
• Practical information on coaching skills, marketing and being an entrepreneur
• A community of other coaches where you can share ideas, wins and challenges
• A safe environment where you can coach and get valuable feedback about your coaching.

Choose your coach training based on the program offerings, your instinct, and your personal experience with the course orientation and your communication with the instructors of the training organization.

Choose a program that will do four things for you:

1. Provide a structure with an easy to follow learning sequence.
2. Place you in a learning environment with other coaches and mentors.
3. Facilitate and support client acquisition and income generation.
4. Immerse you in real-world training that is practical, not theoretical.

Certification is not required in order to begin coaching clients for a fee. Good training, however, will show you multiple ways of engaging people in positive experiences that show you at your best. What prospects and clients care about most is what you can do for them.

Some individual training organization and associations offer their own certifications. Each vary in terms of time, fees, and examinations required.

For some programs it can take years and quite an investment to get all the pieces in place. It’s most important, at this time, to be sure coaching is the right fit for you without spending an excessive amount of time or money.

This link will take you to the Certified Coach Program that is the shortest in duration and requires the smallest investment while providing comprehensive coach training.

Yes, but not in the traditional sense. In fact, traditional sales, marketing, and advertising techniques aren’t generally effective for coaches.

Marketing your professional services, when done correctly, is inexpensive and often times free. Since this is such an important—yet sometimes overlooked—aspect of your coaching practice, CTA incorporates business building techniques and marketing strategies into every course we teach.