Life coaching industry
Life coaching industry
Life coaching industry - emerging trends
The life coaching industry has experienced many emerging trends, some of these are trends are as follows: Coaching skills will become more wide spread throughout a wider range of job role and industries, delivery of online coaching and training will continue to experience growth, scientific research on coaching and its effects will increase and the regulation of coaching will hold coaches to a high quality standard.
What's a Life Coach?
However, you may initially be asking what is a life coach and what do these people do? A simple answer to this question is as follows, life coaches are employed by clients to address areas within their lives that they feel they need to improve or enhance.
This particular type of coaching will focus upon areas within the client's life such as personal projects, transitions, changes and goals, which the client would wish to achieve.
Some examples of areas that this type of coach could help a client with, could be coaching people in learning to improve and enhance their personal actions, decisions, behaviours or/and attitudes.
Another specific example might be improving their communications skills with others in day-to-day interactions.
It might also involve career changes, for example, helping someone change career who is dissatisfied with their current employment.
These coaches may also help clients with relationships, dating or marriage issues.
Specialising within relationship, marriage or dating coaching could involve enhancing the clients dating skills, improving or enhancing their marriage, addressing commitment issues, or helping them cope with a divorce.
Who uses life coaches: Target Markets within the life coaching industry
target markets for these types of coaches will be people looking for personal changes.
Some examples of these changes could be enhancing their dating skills, improving confidence or/and communication skills and various other personal changes/transitions.
It can also involve people looking for career changes or job advancement within their current employment. It can involve people looking for health, fitness and wellness improvement from coaches and people looking for coaching to start up a new venture/enterprise.
According to the ICF, people who have employed coaches and worked successfully with them in their chosen areas have found
- Satisfying quality of day-to-day events
- Improved levels of self-discovery
- Better goal-setting techniques
- Greater levels of self-awareness
(AbundanceCoaching.com)
Are life coaches in demand? Global Demand for Life Coaching
Life Coaching Industry Growth
Life coaching market size: Life Coaching is a 2 billion dollar industry.
High demand for this type of coaching is found within countries such as the USA, UK, Australia, South Africa and in Scandinavian countries such as Norway and Sweden.