10 Qualities Of A Great Life Coach by Prof. Dr. Irshad Ahmed

Posted on March 01, 2022 by Irshad Ahmed, One of Thousands of Life Coaches on Noomii.

1. Maintain a Positive Attitude

Your positive attitude needs to be inspiring to inspire your clients by your belief in them.

2. Be Passionate

Be passionate and empathetic with a desire for helping others – this trait allows you to understand your client’s emotions and barriers to success.

3. Have Great Listening Skills

Listening to clients is what life coaching is all about. Understanding subtle tells and messages help in understanding your client’s issues

4. Be Non-Opinionated

As a coach, your job is not to give client advice, it is to facilitate client’s finding solutions to barriers to success in their career or personal life.

5. No Judgements

The world is filled with people who hold different opinions that you don’t agree with. But, in their view of the world, these opinions might be accurate.

6. Cultivate Curiosity

Curiosity fosters your ability to ask questions of your clients that help them understand their own feelings and how they impact their success.

7. Be challenging

The very best coaches challenge their clients so they gain a deeper understanding of their issues. A coach challenges clients in a way that causes them to face the reality surrounding them with clarity, focus, and honesty.

8. Be Observant

Great coaches learn much by observing clients and sort out the subtlest signs of worry, uncertainty, and trepidation.

9. Communicate With Clarity

To be an excellent coach it is vital that you communicate well on many levels such as body language, vocabulary and more.

10. Stay Honest

Preserve your integrity. Your coaching relationship with clients depends on trust.