Now that you have got an inquisitiveness of what the role involves, here are some insights that might encourage you to consider Life coaching certification in Mumbai, or in another city in India.

To begin with, you must invest in your training and tools. It goes without saying that certain parameters cannot be compromised. If you aspire to provide the highest standards of service to your clients, you must be trained by an organization that is equally uncompromising in its standards and practices. Answering the questions below will help you arrive at the training program best suited to your unique needs and circumstances.

What’s the apt training program for me, if I have to attend Life Coaching Certification in Mumbai?

While you don’t need a license to practice, a credible certification program will not only infuse you with expertise but also add to your brand. Plenty of certification courses and programs are available for the picking. You need to research before you shortlist those that are most effective. To identify THE ONE for you, ask probing questions like:

• Are they globally acknowledged, accredited? For example, has the center been approved by institutions such as the International Coach Federation (ICF)? (People generally prefer to attend a course if the coaching certification is approved by a global body like ICF), hence, ICF approved coach programs are important if you are looking for corporate clients.
• Do their programs bolster your knowledge in your specific area(s) of interest?
• What does their program curriculum look like? Who will be training you and what are their credentials?
• What do their alumni have to say about their programs? How have they fared?
• Is the training center conveniently located?
• Does the course provide me cutting edge frameworks like Emotional Intelligence, NeuroScience, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and NeuroSemantics?
• If the program content is NLP based, and whether it provides additional certifications like Certified NLP Practitioner or Master Practitioner in NLP, covered as part of NLP training in Mumbai.

Do I go horizontal or vertical?

Your career as a Life Coach can be as wide-sweeping as you like. This makes you a horizontal Life Coach.

Alternatively, you can choose to be very picky about the kind of industry/people/situation you want to work with. This makes you a Life Coach with vertical expertise. For example, you might only coach corporate employees/entrepreneurs/business leaders. Or only coach people in a specific situation like career growth/personal relationships/wellness and health.

Your vertical expertise is akin to the sweet spot of the bat. When the arrow hits this spot, it achieves maximum trajectory. Picking your sweet spot might help you move faster in your profession. Because you’re so sharply focused, you might be able to gain access to your prospective clientele and establish yourselves with them more quickly than others who are undecided in their area of interest/specialization.

On the flip side, horizontal Life Coaches gain knowledge about a broader set of life situations and they may be less impacted by a slump in a particular industry.

Your decision to go horizontal or vertical should stem from the clarity of your inner world and your innate risk appetite.

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How do I get more bang for my bucks?

While getting trained, you need to consider more than the program fee. Recurring expenses like commuting, meals, research costs, etc need to be estimated.  Planning your finances well will allow you to give all your attention to learning during your training journey.

Once you have finished your training, the next logical question is: Do I set up my own practice? What costs will that entail? Do I have the wherewithal to bear them? Or do I combine forces with somebody else and share their clientele?

The choice is yours to make but the planning in either scenario needs to be carefully done and preferably ahead of time. Your choice may also depend on where you stand vis-à-vis the essential and desirable attributes for a Life Coach. If you feel you have all or most of the attributes that can make one a great Life Coach, you must more seriously consider setting up your own practice. If you see gaps in knowledge, you might want to gain experience working with veteran Life Coaches.

The essential attributes

A good life coach, who has attained the essential attributes, is:

• Highly self-aware – so that s/he will not allow personal biases and blind spots to come in the way of coaching
• Highly emotionally intelligent and intuitive – because success depends more on EQ than IQ. To help people acquire high EQ, the Life Coach must first have high EQ
• Deeply empathetic to others’ needs
• An intent listener – so as to minimize assumptions
• Able to motivate self and others – after all, many clients feel paralyzed in their situations
• Enterprising and highly organized – because clients need structure and knowledge imparted in effective ways
• High on integrity and ethical – because confidentiality, fairness, and transparency are crucial to creating a relationship of trust with the client

The desirable attributes

A great life coach, who has also attained the vocation’s desirable attributes, is:

• Not a know-it-all. Your job is NOT to provide solutions to your client’s challenges. Your job is to create multiple avenues and pathways they might choose to pursue and reach more meaningful destinations in their life’s journey
• A mindful listener with a quick grasp of different communication styles used by different people. It may seem like a lot of hard work, but patience and persistence pay off. You delve deeper and deeper in your conversations with your client so that clarity and fresh perspective emerge on the situation they are trying to address
• Quick at understanding but slow at jumping to conclusions: Being non-judgemental allows you to proceed with an open mind and outlook towards the client. This approach opens up infinite possibilities rather than limiting them – both for you and the client. There are enough people judging the client for his/her fallibilities. The Life Coach shouldn’t become one of them
• Refrain from stereotyping or templatizing: The forte of one client may well be the Achilles’ heel of another. Every individual is unique in their needs, aspirations, choices, upbringing, strengths, weaknesses and capabilities. As all these factors determine their ability to cope with a difficult situation, you must work on specific and creative ways to extract the best out of every individual. It cannot be a one-size-fits-all approach

The good news is that while these are desirable in an aspiring Life Coach, you don’t need to have it all. You can always begin your journey and acquire these attributes as you go along.

In Conclusion

A Life Coach is a person who has seen the light. S/he has a strong desire to help others see the light as well. But while doing so, s/he does not assume that it is the same light with the same color or wavelength. Every person is unique and nobody understands this better than a great Life Coach. That’s what makes them ideal creative and collaborative partners in life’s toughest challenges.

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