Bonus 051: How to be a Good Coach (even WITHOUT a Coaching Certification)

The Courtney Sanders Podcast

Courtney Sanders

Business, Careers

4.8 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Do you struggle with becoming a good coach because you think that you might need a coaching certification to be one? Do you feel like building your brand as a coach does specifically mean that you need to have an official certification before you can start? In today's episode, I share my stand about coaching certification and how you can be a good coach even without one! If you're tired of overthinking about getting certified prior starting your coaching business, make sure you listen to this episode!

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0:00.0	Creating an environment, communicating your values so well, creating an ambiance within your brand with what you do, like where people just, they just want to be around you, right?
0:10.0	They just want to get whatever it're a good coach.
0:31.6	I get a ton of questions and comments from people, particularly my YouTube followers who are wondering, you know,
0:38.9	do they need a coaching certification to be a good coach? Should they focus on their coaching
0:43.1	certification first before they build their brand or start their business? You don't need a
0:48.5	coaching certification to be a good coach. I don't have a coaching certification. It's not that I
0:53.0	don't believe in higher education or
0:55.2	getting certifications. In fact, I might get my certification one day. I don't know. I might create
1:00.5	my own certification one day. Who knows? So definitely no shade thrown. However, I do find that the coaching
1:07.3	certification can be like a stalling tactic. Is that kind of like, I'm getting ready to get ready?
1:12.6	And I don't think people who are new to coaching realize how important it is that you have actual experience,
1:19.6	not necessarily in coaching, but in some sort of skill.
1:22.6	If you get a coaching certification, it will give you a framework to follow for the technique of coaching, but you don't
1:29.0	get your certification and become a coach. And I just really wanted to talk about that because
1:33.1	I feel like that goes over like a lot of new people's heads. You become the coach first from your
1:38.0	life experience, developing a skill or whatever it is that you have. And then if you feel like you
1:42.8	want to follow a particular methodology
1:44.9	or a framework in order to help you coach your clients better, that technique, then that's what
1:50.4	the coaching certification is for. Real life experience gives you two things that are critical in any
1:56.3	type of business, having an accomplishment and then having an angle. Having real life experience gives
2:02.3	you an accomplishment that other people, you know, are interested in or other people want to
2:07.0	replicate or achieve. And it doesn't even have to be like a huge accomplishment or oftentimes
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