How to Be a Successful Life Coach: A Guide to Setting Up a Profitable Coaching Business - Softcover

Young, Shelagh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845282965 ISBN 13: 9781845282967

Publisher: How To Books, 2008

Synopsis

Coaching is an increasingly competitive field and successful coaching businesses need well-trained coaches who inspire trust in their clients and others. If you want your coaching business to be effective, respected, well-organised and profitable - the planning starts here. In this book, coach and writer Shelagh Young takes you through step by step approach to setting up your own coaching business. Top tips include: how to choose the right training course for the type of coach you want to be; how to make your business dreams come true without working 24/7; how to choose and target the right kinds of clients; and, how to plan and grow your business.

Contents: 1. What is Coaching?; 2. Developing your coaching skills; 3. My dream business; 4. Who do you want to coach?; 5. Choosing the right client market; 6. How will you deliver your coaching?; 7. Form follows function - designing your business structure; 8. Marketing your business; 9. Growing your business; 10. The Ethical Coach: Protecting you and your clients; 11. Writing your business plan; 12. The beginning is not the end.

About this title

About the Author

Shelagh Young is a writer and a coach with experience in setting up her own life and management coaching business. She is the author of a major distance learning course for life coaches, as well as publications aimed at supporting parents. She currently volunteers in sports coaching. Shelagh lives near Edinburgh with her partner and a two-strong squad of athletic teens.

Edition details

• Publisher: How To Books
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845282965
• ISBN 13: 9781845282967
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 231