One of the places PSG has taken their life coaching is into schools and colleges.  Who better to receive skills in life coaching than school-goers?
The skills of life coaching are tremendously helpful to adolescents who are trying to make life choices.  How can you make decisions about your life at such an important age and stage without knowing who you are and what you want to do with your life?

Some of the questions we put to the school goers are :

• Who am I?
• What makes me who I am?
• What are my core values?
• What does success mean to me and how do I measure it and achieve it ?

We also look at

• What do I want to avoid?
• How will I prevent it happening?
• What are my priorities and how will I stay focused and motivated?

Another key topic when bringing life coaching to schools is communication

Stephen Covey writes  “ Seek first to understand then to be understood” (from 7 Habits of Highly Effective People). Miscommunication is usually down to lack of listening and empathy.  We work with the school  goers to understand what they can do to improve their communication, whether they are delivering the message or receiving a message.

“ Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime” Lao Tzu

If you want to better in sport you get a sports coach. If you want to be a better actor you get an acting coach….  If you want a better life learn life coaching!

When you learn life coaching, one of the benefits is that you  learn life coaching models and strategies. It’s much easier to tackle the difficult tasks when you have a starting point and steps to take that are proven to work.  Learn life coaching to become skilled in these models so you can apply them to yourself and share them with others, including clients.

Below is one of the Positive Success Group strategies for applying your strengths to gain success

• Awareness identify what is working and what is not
• Acknowledge what you have in terms of strengths
• Appreciate why those strengths have been developed – experience
• Align strengths to the needs of your goals or organisation- you  need to have the right skills, knowledge, attitudes and behaviours to realistically achieve your goals
• Agree on a plan of development that harness all the strengths. This is what you will do differently to use your strengths in a positive and proactive way
• Action. Experience your ‘degrees of success’

If  you believe in not just working but living smarter not harder, then learn life coaching and help yourself and others to a better life.

Positive Success s Group run courses so you can learn life coaching all year around.

Belief systems

Values – understanding how they impact our decisions

Habits – how they are formed and how to form new ones

Effective communication – what you say gives you away

Understanding people development – what drives our behaviour and how we change it

A life coach course needs to be delivered by facilitators that are fully qualified and experienced in coaching and have a successful client practice of their own.  With Positive Success Group you also get access to a team that are highly motivated, action orientated and results driven who are passionate about people development.

Positive Success Group deliver their life coach course to public and private sectors  and have achieved great success in enhancing peoples skills.  The life coach allows each individual develop their own authentic style of coaching through their model of knowing, doing and being.

What one of our students said:

“ The life coach course was one of the most stimulating courses I have ever done.  This is mostly due to the subject matter – there was a huge emphasis on the individual – it got me outside my comfort zone and enabled me  to become more self aware and more confident”   Deborah – HR

Who benefits from attending Life Coaching Courses?

What types of courses are available?

What type of course will suit my needs?

What can I expect to pay?

Who benefits from attending Life Coaching Courses?

Well to be honest everyone.  Considering that premise of Life Coaching is finding balance and confidence in living a fulfilled life – who doesn’t need that?

The people who benefit from attending Life Coaching Courses are,  Individuals who want to self coach,  Managers, Leaders, Trainers, Educators, Business owners, Self employed, Job Seekers, Business Start ups, Parents, Carers, Directors and anyone who is interested in living their best balanced life.

What types of courses are available?

Life Coaching courses in Ireland are everywhere you look.  I see them advertised in my local schools and VECs as part time evening courses.  I see them run out of lots of different venues from colleges to hotels and community centres.  I even know of one course that is run from the living room of the trainers home.

The shorter courses tend to be part time classes from 6 to 10 weeks – each class being about 2 and a half hours long – you may receive a certificate of attendance

You can do more intense short courses – 5 to 10 days and receive a Coaching Certificate and/or FETAC award

The more substantial courses range from 3, 6 and 9 months  and you can receive a FETAC award and/or a Diploma

My experience is that some of the short – introduction to coaching courses can be anything from self help workshops to accredited certificate courses so please do your research.

What type of course will suit my needs ?

With so much choice on offer its a good idea to decide what it is you need to get from the course.

Once you have an idea what you want – then look at the course duration – what the syllabus covers – what the qualifications are – what you can expect to end up with

There are 3 main benefits from attending Life Coaching Courses

Personal development : Self Awareness, Self Management and Self Control

Up skilling:  Coaching skills, tools and techniques

Career Progression: Professional qualification and transferrable skills to increase employability

What can I expect to pay?

You can expect to find courses prices ranging from €90 to €12,500

The workshops are the cheapest and the designer label qualifications are most expensive

What I suggest is you invest in yourself and your needs.  Is it necessary to pay the higher limits – over €10,000 I dont’ believe so.  You can obtain an excellent qualification for example an Accredited Diploma  for between €2,500 and €3,000.  The majority of professional diplomas carry the same weigh in credibility and business recognition so don’t be sucked in by the labels !!