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SaveWhat Does a Life Coach Do?
Life coaches help clients set clear objectives for their personal development and help them achieve their goals and personal vision. They provide counselling and guidance and establish progress reports in order to keep track of their clients' achievements.
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Where Do I Start?
Analyse Problems For Opportunities
Identify and anticipate problems in order to choose a course of action, come up with appropriate solutions or even identify opportunities for further development.
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These are common skills for this role. Real-world experience matters more than ticking every box — use this as a guide, not a checklist.
Skills You Need to Become a Life Coach
Essential Skills
Essential Skills
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EssentialAnalyse Problems For Opportunities skill
Identify and anticipate problems in order to choose a course of action, come up with appropriate solutions or even identify opportunities for further development.
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EssentialCommunicate With Customers skill
Respond to and communicate with customers in the most efficient and appropriate manner to enable them to access the desired products or services, or any other help they may require.
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EssentialCounsel Clients skill
Assist and guide clients to overcome their personal, social, or psychological issues.
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EssentialGive Advice On Personal Matters skill
Advise people on love and marriage issues, business and job opportunities, health or other personal aspects.
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EssentialListen Actively skill
Give attention to what other people say, patiently understand points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times; able to listen carefully the needs of customers, …
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EssentialMaintain Customer Service skill
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EssentialMaintain Relationship With Customers skill
Build a lasting and meaningful relationship with customers in order to ensure satisfaction and fidelity by providing accurate and friendly advice and support, by delivering quality products and services and …
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EssentialShow Social Competences skill
Ability to interact effectively with other people.
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EssentialUse Consulting Techniques skill
Advise clients in different personal or professional matters.
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EssentialAssist Clients With Personal Development skill
Help clients determine what they want to do with their lives and assist in setting personal and professional goals, by prioritising and planning the steps necessary to reach these goals.
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EssentialCoach Clients skill
Actively help clients to improve their strengths and confidence. Propose courses and workshops or coach them yourself.
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EssentialEvaluate Clients' Progress skill
Keep track of clients' achievements by reporting on their progress. Monitor whether goals are reached and barriers or setbacks overcome. If not, consult with clients about their issues and offer …
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EssentialHelp Clients Make Decisions During Counselling Sessions skill
Encourage clients to make their own decisions related to their problems or inner conflicts by reducing confusion and allowing clients to reach their own conclusions, with no bias whatsoever.
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Optional Skills (5 of 15 displayed)
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OptionalRhetoric knowledge
The art of discourse that aims at improving the ability of writers and speakers to inform, persuade or motivate their audience.
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OptionalAdminister Appointments skill
Accept, schedule and cancel appointments.
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OptionalAssess Character skill
Assess how a certain person will react, verbally or physically, in a specific situation or to a specific happening.
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OptionalDevelop Professional Network skill
Reach out to and meet up with people in a professional context. Find common ground and use your contacts for mutual benefit. Keep track of the people in your personal …
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OptionalGive Constructive Feedback skill
Provide founded feedback through both criticism and praise in a respectful, clear, and consistent manner. Highlight achievements as well as mistakes and set up methods of formative assessment to evaluate …
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OptionalIdentify Training Needs skill
Analyse the training problems and identify the training requirements of an organisation or individuals, so as to provide them with instruction tailored to their prior mastery, profile, means and problem.
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OptionalKeep Personal Administration skill
File and organise personal administration documents comprehensively.
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OptionalMaintain Professional Administration skill
File and organise professional administration documents comprehensively, keep customer records, fill in forms or log books and prepare documents about company-related matter.
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OptionalManage A Small-to-medium Business skill
Manage the organisational, financial and day-to-day operation of a small-to-medium enterprise.
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OptionalPerform Lectures skill
Present lectures to various groups.
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OptionalPromote Yourself skill
Market one's own strengths in terms of skills and knowledge.
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OptionalProvide Career Counselling skill
Advise beneficiaries on future career options through counselling and, potentially, through career testing and evaluation.
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OptionalUse Different Communication Channels skill
Make use of various types of communication channels such as verbal, handwritten, digital and telephonic communication with the purpose of constructing and sharing ideas or information.
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OptionalFacilitate Job Market Access skill
Improve the chances of individuals to find a job, by teaching the required qualifications and interpersonal skills, through training and development programs, workshops or employment projects.
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OptionalTeach Communication To Clients skill
Provide clients with tips on how to communicate verbally and non-verbally and teach them the appropriate etiquette for different kinds of situations. Help clients attain more effective, clearer or more …
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