Employer-sponsored course

Life Coach

Online, Self-Paced Online Hours: 545545 hoursAccess 12 Months

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Life Coaching is quickly becoming one of the most in-demand professional services. Life Coaches work with clients to help them establish and achieve their professional goals, as well as personal aspirations. This course will provide you with the skills you need to become a successful life coach. Through theoretical and practical applications, you will learn how to work with clients in every aspect of life. You will learn coaching fundamentals, including listening skills and the language of coaching. From there, you will go beyond the basics to learn how to work with individual clients to help them establish their personal and professional goals. When a student completes this course, they will be fully prepared to help individuals through one-on-one and group coaching.

Full overview

This lesson will introduce you to the three levels of listening that coaches need to use when working with clients. You will also be shown a listening template that can be used as a working tool when gathering

Successful life coaching involves having many conversations with clients about their goals and expectations. This lesson focuses on the mechanics of those conversations and how the flow can lead to improved outcomes.

Clients who seek out a life coach are looking to make changes in their lives. This lesson focuses on how to walk clients through those changes. Several theories on change are covered.

One of the major roles of a life coach is to create an atmosphere that empowers the client to identify obstacles in their lives and assist them in overcoming these obstacles. This lesson will explore ways to empower clients to make these realizations.

This lesson covers how to challenge a client to acheive their goals, when more passive means are not working.

It is not just enough for clients to make one change, as a life coach, you want them to maintain the behavior that led to change. This lesson is about creating and maintaining momentum with a client.

Being a life coach doesn't just require working with people's goals. You also have to work with body practices and emotions. This lesson focuses on wholistic assessments with clients.

This lesson is about establishing life purpose with clients. Topics will include defining life purpose and how to discover it with clients.

Many clients say they know what they want but are not always honest with themselves about what their end goals should be. This lesson focuses on helping clients explore the life of their dreams and how to walk them through exercises to establish what their dream life could be.

Once clients have identified their purpose and envisioned their dream life, they must identify obstacles that could get in their way. This lesson will help you work with clients in identifying their obstacles so they can then work on ways to overcome them.

This lesson deals with personal values. Those beliefs that drive people to do what they do. In this lesson you will work with clients to set values to guide their actions

As a follow up to Lesson 11, this lesson focuses on what actions a client needs to do to align thier lives with the values they have set.

In this lesson, you will work with clients on helping them fully participate in their goals and vision.

Being wealthy does not have to deal with only being monetarily rich. This lesson dives into ways of being wealthy that don't just deal with money.

This lesson focuses on mind-set, those habitual patterns of thinking that guide our actions and values.

Often, clients feel isolated and lonely. This is counter-productive to allow for change and creativity. This lesson will present ways to help clients live a connected life.

NOTE: While cellular hotspots may allow access to our courses, users may experience connectivity issues by trying to access our learning management system. This is due to the potential high download and upload latency of cellular connections. Therefore, it is not recommended that students use a cellular hotspot as their primary way of accessing their courses.

NOTE: While we understand that our courses can be viewed on Android and iPhone devices, we do not recommend the use of these devices for our courses. The size of these devices do not provide a good learning environment for students taking online or live online based courses.

Included programs

  • Identify the coaching fundamentals required for effective life skills coaching.
  • Identify the basic asking skills that make up the framework of the coaching conversation.
  • Describe the process used to help clients discover their goals.
  • Identify the strategies and tools that can be used with clients to help them identify the challenges that are holding them back from developing and accomplishing their goals.
  • Identify the advanced life coaching skills that will help clients move beyond the planning stage to the action stage.
  • Identify the different coaching niches.

Materials

All necessary course materials are included.

System requirements

Minimum technical expectations for the online learning environment. Your IT team can use this as a checklist.

Internet connectivity

Internet Connectivity Requirements: Cable, Fiber, DSL, or LEO Satellite (i.e. Starlink) internet with speeds of at least 10mb/sec download and 5mb/sec upload are recommended for the best experience. Cable, Fiber, DSL, or LEO Satellite (i.e. Starlink) internet with speeds of at least 10mb/sec download and 5mb/sec upload are recommended for the best experience. Cable, Fiber, DSL, or LEO Satellite (i.e. Starlink) internet with speeds of at least 10mb/sec download and 5mb/sec upload are recommended for the best experience.

While cellular hotspots may allow access to our courses, users may experience connectivity issues by trying to access our learning management system. This is due to the potential high download and upload latency of cellular connections. Therefore, it is not recommended that students use a cellular hotspot as their primary way of accessing their courses.

Hardware

Hardware Requirements: CPU: 1 GHz or higher RAM: 4 GB or higher Resolution: 1280 x 720 or higher. 1920x1080 resolution is recommended for the best experience. Speakers / Headphones Microphone for Webinar or Live Online sessions. CPU: 1 GHz or higher RAM: 4 GB or higher Resolution: 1280 x 720 or higher. 1920x1080 resolution is recommended for the best experience. Speakers / Headphones Microphone for Webinar or Live Online sessions. CPU: 1 GHz or higher RAM: 4 GB or higher Resolution: 1280 x 720 or higher. 1920x1080 resolution is recommended for the best experience. Speakers / Headphones Microphone for Webinar or Live Online sessions.

Operating system

Operating System Requirements: Windows 7 or higher. Mac OSX 10 or higher. Latest Chrome OS Latest Linux Distributions Windows 7 or higher. Mac OSX 10 or higher. Latest Chrome OS Latest Linux Distributions Windows 7 or higher. Mac OSX 10 or higher. Latest Chrome OS Latest Linux Distributions

While we understand that our courses can be viewed on Android and iPhone devices, we do not recommend the use of these devices for our courses. The size of these devices do not provide a good learning environment for students taking online or live online based courses.

Web browser

Web Browser Requirements: Latest Google Chrome is recommended for the best experience. Latest Mozilla FireFox Latest Microsoft Edge Latest Apple Safari Latest Google Chrome is recommended for the best experience. Latest Mozilla FireFox Latest Microsoft Edge Latest Apple Safari Latest Google Chrome is recommended for the best experience. Latest Mozilla FireFox Latest Microsoft Edge Latest Apple Safari

Recommended software

Basic Software Requirements (These are recommendations of software to use): Office suite software (Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, or LibreOffice) PDF reader program (Adobe Reader, FoxIt) Courses may require other software that is described in the above course outline. Office suite software (Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, or LibreOffice) PDF reader program (Adobe Reader, FoxIt) Courses may require other software that is described in the above course outline. Office suite software (Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, or LibreOffice) PDF reader program (Adobe Reader, FoxIt) Courses may require other software that is described in the above course outline. ** The course outlines displayed on this website are subject to change at any time without prior notice. ** ** The course outlines displayed on this website are subject to change at any time without prior notice. **

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