Effective coaches come from all walks of life, but nearly all great coaches are motivated by very similar forces. If the motives listed below get you fired up, the chances are good that you have what it takes to be a powerful and inspiring coach.
Desire to Lead
Although it is important as a coach to keep your clients at the helm of their own ship in business or life, a coach is essentially a leader, and your natural qualities as an effective leader will come in handy when you need to lead the way with a particularly challenging line of probing questions.
Intellectual Curiousity
As altruistic as your motivations as a coach may be, you will often need to rely upon your instinctive curiosity in order to stay excited about discovering your client’s aspirations, obstacles and how they can make their dreams a reality. At the same time, possessing an innate interest in learning more about what makes people tick will make expanding your coaching toolkit less of a chore and more of a pleasure.
Motivated to Succeed
In order to inspire your clients to follow their own inner aspiration, it is critical that being successful is an important part of what gets you ought of bed every morning. No matter whether you are driven to build wealth, create a family or become an entrepreneur, clients expect coaches to have the kind of fire burning in their belly that is simply infectious.
Strong Social Conscience
No matter what else motivates you as a professional coach, a sincere desire to help others and improve the world is at the core of successful coaching. While there is a lot of money to be made in this rapidly expanding industry, the inner rewards that come with helping others grow and succeed are even greater.
Professionalism
As exciting and rewarding as coaching can be, an effective coach needs to know where to draw the line professionally. Clients rely upon life and business coaches for an objective perspective regarding the goals and the obstacles that they face. Becoming too familiar or close with a client can stand in the way of effective coaching.