Life Coach course

IslandFella

A career as executive/life coach is appealing to me. I'm looking into the galway leadership centre course, Diploma in Business, Executive and Personal Coaching. Its being run in the Western Management Centre, Dangan. Has anyone done this course or heard anything about it? Thanks!

Unwilling

Island Fella - did you get any feedback about this at all.
i am also considering a qualification in this, it would be a FETAC Level 6 qualification..........

jesse.j

IslandFella wrote: »

A career as executive/life coach is appealing to me. I'm looking into the galway leadership centre course, Diploma in Business, Executive and Personal Coaching. Its being run in the Western Management Centre, Dangan. Has anyone done this course or heard anything about it? Thanks!

appreciate the tip. I check their website and it looks a great course. All I need now I a Miracle (or a grant) to help with the cost. The emphasis on Psychology Is What could make this a great course.

SamB64

I've got a lot of experience in this area having run a buisiness as a personal coach since 2004. I don't want to comment on this specific course, but I would advise you to look at the area/speciality in which you intend to coach.

Accreditation is a big issue in the coaching industry at the moment (at least internally) with the Association for Coaching (AC) and the International Coaching Federation (ICF) being the two big players in the UK and Ireland.

In my personal experience of 1-2-1 coaching nobody has asked me if I was accredited (I am) in over 6 years. Corporate coaching is different and you may well be asked about your certification and qualifications etc.

Business Coaching - This is much more down to your personal experience. The market leading franchise is "Action Coach" but what really matter is your ability to market and sell yourself.

In personal coaching the Coach Training Institute (CTI) is the course I would recommend as a starter and back it up with some NLP language training.

A world of caution.

Don't believe the marketing hype put out by any of the training organisations. A recent study by the ICF showedthe average full time coach earned 23k Euro. That's the average, in my experience of meeting lots of wanna be coaches, over 90% earn less than 10k and have to take part time jobs.

This also explains why the majority of "coaches" earning good money are those training others to market themselves as coaches - a little research on the net will bring up a very well known example here in Ireland.

So, if coaching really does appeal, then treat it like any potential business. Research you market and target customers very very carefully an ensure they are looking for a solution to an expensive problem you can help them solve.

Then focus on building it, part time on real business data and not emotion.

Having said all that, if you can make it it's a great life.

Hope this helps,

Sam.

jesse.j

Thank you 'Sam'. I have an area I wish to specialize in: creativity and its applications to personal/professional success. Ive read extensively on a very wide range related to human potential. I need to gain qualifications that will help me access tough market areas. I also appreciate the training and personal benefits that Good coaching, N.L.P etc. encompass. thanks for the tip on the business end, I think some of the cause is that there is good business(?) in churning out courses but with little thought as to progression for new trainers or coaches, the promise of riches is well marketed.

SamB64

Jesse,

You say: "I need to gain qualifications that will help me access tough market areas"

I'm curious, I'm away on holiday for a couple of weeks tomorrow early so won't see your answer until I get back.

But, I would like to ask.

How do you know you need these specific qualifications? (What real "data based" evidence do you have that you NEED these?)

How specifically will they help you gain access to these tough markets?(What evidence do you have that you NEED these to compete in these markets?) Remember there is no such thing as a market - work on understanding your "core" customer and market to them as a person.

What specifically do you mean by tough? How do you measurethis and what gives you a unique selling proposition for the customer's perspective?

Sorry if I seem I'm bombarding you with questions, but I've seen too many people go in blind - spend 3 - 5 k on training, 2k on a website that wins them no business.

My top tip for success is do your research andwork on hard evidence not emotion - that will be far more valuable than any coach training you can ever get. (It's still worth investing inthe best training though :cool:)

I really hope this helps you, it's harder at the start to work on research, and evidence as we so love ou own ideas and the personal development industr s so full of people saying you should "build it and they will come" ask toseethe business accounts before paying them cash for advice.

Bye for now,

Sam.:pac:

Unwilling

Hello

This is what my research has drummed up. As it’s still a relatively new discipline there are few institutes that I recognise. I think I would choose one of the latter two. As they have a fetac affiliation. And also the Life and business coaching association.
However, it seems to me to be the same course but one is 50% the price of the other. I’m not sure what the difference is, they are both Fetac level 6!

I just want this for my work, just to show some personal advancement. I would LOVE to get into this professionaly but it's not the aim at the moment. Again, the last two are my preference, but I can see little difference between the two for the price difference!



http://www.mindstream.ie/life.htm no external accreditation

http://www.coachinstitute.ie – recognised by the ILM the associate for coaching and the Engineers Ireland

http://lifecoachingcourses.ie/2010/01/diploma-in-life-coaching/ - LBCAI – the Life & Business
Coaching Association of Ireland and FETAC Level 6

http://www.totalfocus.ie/ the Life & Business Coaching Association of Ireland and FETAC Level 6 (but for some reason is a cert and not a diploma, unlike the one above) This is also the cheapest! BY FAR

sebas

Hello,

if you see the cheapest one (Total focus) it provides 8 full days: 900/8=112 per day. While PSG ptovides 14 full days + 1 evening = 2150/14 = 150 euros.

The difference is not so big...

Unwilling wrote: »

Hello

This is what my research has drummed up. As it’s still a relatively new discipline there are few institutes that I recognise. I think I would choose one of the latter two. As they have a fetac affiliation. And also the Life and business coaching association.
However, it seems to me to be the same course but one is 50% the price of the other. I’m not sure what the difference is, they are both Fetac level 6!

I just want this for my work, just to show some personal advancement. I would LOVE to get into this professionaly but it's not the aim at the moment. Again, the last two are my preference, but I can see little difference between the two for the price difference!



http://www.mindstream.ie/life.htm no external accreditation

http://www.coachinstitute.ie – recognised by the ILM the associate for coaching and the Engineers Ireland

http://lifecoachingcourses.ie/2010/01/diploma-in-life-coaching/ - LBCAI – the Life & Business
Coaching Association of Ireland and FETAC Level 6

http://www.totalfocus.ie/ the Life & Business Coaching Association of Ireland and FETAC Level 6 (but for some reason is a cert and not a diploma, unlike the one above) This is also the cheapest! BY FAR