What does a Life Coach do?
A life coach encourages and counsels clients on a range of professional and personal issues. Life coaching is distinct from giving advice, consulting, counseling, mentoring and administering therapy. You hire a coach to help with specific professional projects, personal goals and transitions.
A coach helps you grow by analyzing your current situation, identifying limiting beliefs and personal and potential challenges and obstacles you face and devising a custom plan of action designed to help you achieve specific outcomes in your life.
The relationship between a client and their life coach is more like a creative partnership than a one-way street. From your 1st meeting you will:
- Identify, clarify and create a vision for what you want
- Use your coach's expertise to modify goals as needed
- Encourage self-discovery and growth
- Nurture and evoke strategies and a plan of action based on what fits best with your goals, personality and vision
- Foster accountability to increase productivity
What are benefits of Life Coaching?
The exact life coach definition and the benefits you will experience depend on what your specific goals are. Some of the most common areas clients improve while working with a life coach include:
- Identifying goals and defining a vision for success
- Creating professional and personal growth plans
- Identifying limiting beliefs
- Working toward financial independence
- Obtaining work/life balance
- Learning to communicate more succinctly and effectively
- Fostering more powerful connections professionally and personally
- Improving relationships and communications skills
- Getting promotions
- Starting a new business or growing an existing one
- Managing an important life or business transition
- Articulating core values
Ultimately life coaching allows you to maximize your potential in any area. Research shows that coaching and training is a far more effective combination than training alone. Training alone can increase productivity by 22.4%, but when combined with weekly life coaching, productivity is boosted by 88%.
Coach Mike Nealy
Why I Coach
Life, business and relationships have all improved thanks to Mike
Mike understands and connects on a level much deeper than anyone I have talked with. He has tools and techniques that unlock complexities in minutes. I owe a lot of the positive flow in my life to the work I have done with Mike.
Life Changing Experience
I lost my job; the change paralyzed me. Michael was instrumental in helping me navigate through some measurable objectives that has helped me understand that what I considered to be failing was an actually an opportunity to do something different… My sessions with Michael have changed my thought process, he has taught me how to listen and trust myself. My time with Michael was a positive, provoking, challenge, and a well needed experience. Michael’s outlook and positive attitude is genuine. He is a great coach and mentor… let him help you! I am grateful. Thanks Michael.
Gave me a whole new perspective
Mike has a great knack for listening and understanding what you want from his coaching. He then brings you a new way to look at the issues you want to work on. One month working with Mike, gave me a whole new perspective of how I see myself in relationship to others at both a personal and professional level and the results are there to see. Thanks Mike.
- Hakeem W.
Life Changing Experience
If you are considering working with a life coach, I highly recommend taking the leap and contacting Mike. Working with Mike has been very helpful and enlightening. He is very easy to talk to, he is knowledgeable in many subjects, particularly this field of work. Mike offered positive suggestions that I found to be very helpful. Mike is excellent at seeing many facets of situations and communicating these thoughts back in a way that i found to be thought provoking and productive.
- Derry W.
A True Giver
Mike is a great listener, conversationalist and strategic thinker. Highly recommend for the entrepreneur wanting to break through to the next level..a true giver. Thank you Mike!
- Calvin T.