Life Coaching: a new career for helping professionals [Ring-bound]

David B. Ellis (Author), Dave B. Ellis (Author)

Product Details

• Ring-bound: 172 pages
• Publisher: Breakthrough Enterprises; 1 edition (July 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0942456157
• ISBN-13: 978-0942456158
• Product Dimensions: 11.6 x 10.8 x 2.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,409,242 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent, practical guide to life coaching, November 2, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Life Coaching: a new career for helping professionals (Ring-bound)

Life coaching is a new career field that is growing and changing very quickly. If you want to become a successful life coach, or if you are a coach looking for ways to sharpen your skills, you need practical advice from someone with real experience. This manual provides just that, with easy to read, chapter by chapter instruction on all kinds of issues, including: how coaching differs from counseling, how to set up your practice, how to deal with different kinds of clients, how to handle mistakes life coaches can make and when to refer a client elsewhere. It also explains how to market your services so that your practice will be a lucrative one. There are books on the market about the life coaching process or how an individual can benefit from life coaching techniques, but this is the first really comprehensive book about how to become a coach and stay on top of the profession. That makes it worth having on your bookshelf.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars not what I expected, July 18, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Life Coaching: a new career for helping professionals (Ring-bound)

very basic. all fluff. While I understand this is a guide for people just getting into coaching, it is still very basic. After reading the manual I feel I got nothing out of it. There are far better books available at a fraction of the cost.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Life Coaching: a new career for helping professionals, March 23, 2002

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Stan Lankowitz (Centennial, CO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Life Coaching: a new career for helping professionals (Ring-bound)

I am a Life Coach. I helped edit this book and I've coached the author. Life Coaching is my passion and my career. I love it and I love helping anyone who might be interested in becoming a Life Coach.

Many therapists and others who want to become Life Coaches are uncertain and hesitant because they are unfamiliar with this relatively new career. This book offers a very clear and thorough description of all areas of coaching. It includes specific information and practical strategies related to the logistics of coaching, coaching skills, professional issues, and even marketing your services. It dispells many misconceptions about Life Coaching and maps out a clear path to shift from whatever you are doing now to becoming a succesful Life Coach.

The model of Life Coaching described is clearly distinguished from consulting and "advice giving." This style of Life Coaching trusts the brilliance of the client to determine what he or she really wants in all areas of life and then to design multiple actions plans to achieve it. Some of the Life Coach's primary jobs include listening fully, affirming, and facilitating the client's thinking.

A suggestion to improve the book is that some of the items in the "Questions and Answers" section would fit nicely in earlier sections. In fact, the book could be re-organized to eliminate the "Questions and Answers" section completely.

I am comfident that this book contains extremely valuable and useful information that will help any potential coach become confident and masterful in this new profession.