The Smart School

It’s no secret that the coaching industry is growing. And it is growing for a good reason: it gets results.

That’s why a majority of companies in the UK now use coaching at some level to develop their staff and improve leadership.

As a coach, there is an expanding market for your services and a range of ways in which you can practice.  many coaches become self-employed building a private practice either as their sole income or to suplement their income.  Other coaches, work within an organisation either as a full time coach or as part of their work to develop staff.

Here are just some of the ways you can coach:

• Life coach/Personal Coach: Working with your private clients on any apsect of an individual’s private life
• Niche Coach:  Again, with a private practice but specialising in a particular field such as “finance coach” or “parenting coach”
• Small Business Coach: Working with entrepeneurs and business owners to facilitate business success, profitability through purposeful action and clarity of aims and outcomes.
• Corporate Coach: Working with businesses to achieve performance or staffing outcomes ranging from sales performance, succession management, change management or team coaching. 
• Executive Coach: Working with senior managers and executives on personal performance and leadership.  This will often focus on the person’s mental attributes and state rather than just tasks
• Group Coach/Team Coach: You may be a corporate or personal coach but the skill of taking coaching from one-to-one to one-to-many is an art in itself and lends a new way to coach.

There are, then, many ways to build a successful career or business as a coach.  The industry and opportunities are growing.

If you’re interested in talking about the kind of direction you’d like to take as a future coach why not talk to us in a personal consultation or book a place on a free seminar.