Your client doubts the value of life coaching. How can you convince them of its benefits?

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For some reason people don’t question the value of a gym for the body and recognize that having external tools and support helps them achieve their body goals faster. Coaching provides the same value for the mind.

To convince your client of the value of life coaching, emphasize the benefits of personal growth. Start by discussing their specific goals and aspirations, illustrating how coaching can help them achieve these. Share success stories of past clients who have experienced transformative changes, highlighting concrete examples of personal growth. Encourage them to reflect on areas in their life where they feel stuck or unfulfilled, and explain how coaching provides support, accountability, and new perspectives. Emphasize the skills they will develop, such as self-awareness, resilience, and decision-making. Finally, assure them that coaching is a partnership focused on their unique journey, fostering empowerment and lasting change.

Everybody needs a life coach. We all have our own set of blind spots. Many life coaches out there might not be ok with me saying this, but even life coaches need the support of other life coaches. We all have our own set of biases towards ourselves. So the same goes for a lot of people. We need another person who can guide us neutrally without any bias towards our actions, our perspectives. This clarifies the importance of life coaches for personal growth.

Mi experiencia en estos casos (y hay muchos) es ofrecer una sesión gratis donde ambos actores pueden explorar se (el Coach y el Coachee). Utilizar los servicios de un Coach de Vida no son compulsivos, son deseados. Generalmente lo que hago es buscar con el Coachee algo que desee y no puede alcanzar (el para qué). Visualizarlo, sentirlo. Para esto utilizo herramientas de PNL. En definitiva son las herramientas del Coach crear rapport y una relación. No podemos como profesionales intentar convencer, sino mostrar las opciones.

Setting goals in life might sound like an easy task but most often it is not. As a life coach I can help you through your goal setting process by providing you with structure to understand yourself better in terms of your needs and what you want to achieve in life. I can provide you with a clear set of actions that you can take to set yourself achievable goals.

Cuando el Coachee acepta "probar", el Coach debe aclarar que entendemos ambos por probar. Dejar muy claro que el Coachee tiene todos los recursos para hacerse cargo y que la labor del Coach será guiarlo, no darle los resultados. En esta etapa estamos prontos para hacer las preguntas poderosas que darán lugar a los objetivos.

One thing that has always worked for me is usually a system I setup in the beginning sessions that alleviates this issue in most cases. I help my students setup up a system of tracking and measuring their progress on a daily basis. I explain to them that data points will fluctuate and will dip and rise as we move forward in the journey. It won't be a a clear upward trend. Now, whenever this doubt arises and we sit down together to evaluate our progress, we look at the long term data and try to see trends. In most healthy cases, the student and you as the coach will see an upward trend on the longer timeline.

We need both push and pull, at different times, to help us move closer to our goals. A coach offers that—encouraging us when we are feeling low and out and pulling us towards a greater vision of who we can be, a better me. When we do things by ourselves, it's hard. But when we do things with at least one other person, things just become slightly easier. This is because we humans are social beings, and we need the power of connectedness with another human, to make our work smoother.

Typical mindset blocks I help my clients to overcome may also include self-criticism, perfectionism, and stress-eating in addition to procrastination and fear of change or failure.

There have been times in our life where we are having a mental block where we are emotionally and/or physically exhausted. This could be a time where we are unable to take a decision or take the necessary actions to move forward. At that point of time, it is important to have a life coach like myself work with you, so that the tools that we provide, the questions that have for you depending on your individual situations can help you overcome those mental blocks and work towards progress.

A life coach like me works with you on all walks of your life and one of the key things that we can help you with is improving your decision making. We can help you overcome your biases and make better decisions. Helping you make better decisions is not a simple process but result of hours of conversation with you about your life style, biases, past decisions, your needs for the future and such.

As life coaches we suggest you to work with a close friend or a family member as an accountability partner. The work of this person is mainly to make sure that you are on track with your goals and processes. As life coaches we are not exactly your accountability partner but we can provide with systems and such for you to work your accountability partner.

An accountability partner is someone who holds you accountable for your goals and commitments. They act as a sounding board, providing feedback and guidance to help you stay focused and motivated. Having an accountability partner can help you stay accountable to yourself and your coach, ensuring that you are taking the necessary steps towards achieving your goals. An accountability partner can provide the extra encouragement and support your client needs to stay motivated and committed to their goals. This can help demonstrate the value of having someone in their corner throughout the coaching process.

It is often hard for an overachiever to admit they need emotional support and can no longer manage alone. If you are one of them, consider that you likely face more stress in your job, which isn’t a typical 9 to 5, and you may not want to be perceived as “weak” by sharing your challenges with your team or superiors. While there is nothing “weak” about feeling this way (emotional fatigue occurs when you give more than you receive), it is better to arrange a separate, “safe” space where you can be yourself without worrying about possible implications. This is where having a coach becomes essential.

When a client doubts the value of life coaching, emotional support can be a game-changer. 🤗 Listen actively to their concerns and validate their feelings, showing empathy and understanding. Use success stories from past clients to illustrate tangible results, like improved relationships or career advancements. 🌟 Incorporate humor to lighten the mood: "Think of life coaching as your personal cheerleading squad – we're here to celebrate every 'goal' you score!" 😄 Emphasize the personalized guidance they receive, tailored to their unique needs, to demonstrate the direct impact on their growth and happiness.

For me contracting in coaching would be one of the key first moments to talk about the value the client anticipates and you are ready to provide. If your views on the coaching benefits are initially very different, it might just mean you two are not a great match, and I wonder if it’s a good idea in this case to try convince each other otherwise. If the client starts questioning the value after you’ve contracted and already have had some work together, it sounds like a perfect timing to realign on their goals for the process and to check if there are some defenses/resistance activated in them by the work you are doing together.

Coaching is about being curious, so how to convince depends on finding out what has caused their doubts. Being authentic and sharing our own experience with coaching, or providing testimonials to illustrate how life coaching has impacted others could help. However there's also a notion about the client's coach-ability, including their readiness to be coached to achieve their future ideal or overcome their problem. If they are highly doubtful, perhaps it's just not opportune to partner them.

No Coaching dizemos que "palavras influenciam e exemplos arrastam", assim mostraria a minha própria história caminhada até aqui, pois todo Coach em formação ou já atuando, faz o coaching de si mesmo e se transforma. Depois mostraria os resultados de clientes que estiver atendendo ou que já atendi e de números e resultados públicos de pesquisas ou artigos científicos sobre os benefícios do Coaching. E por fim, analisaria junto com o cliente o estado em que ele começou o processo de coaching e o que já avançou até o momento. Eu acredito na metodologia do coaching e no poder da ação, com isso, uma pessoas só não perceberá mudanças, se ela não estiver minimamente disposta a se desenvolver, se transformar e caminhar.

Leading by example, the example of a better person being ourselves, shows to the prospective clients that we, too, have been improved by life's experience and growth. Because we have been there and done that, we can offer a similar solution to the client, tailoring it to their needs. To help them achieve the goal of being a better person faster.