{"id":7107,"date":"2016-12-12T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T09:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centerforcoachingcertification.com\/coachingblog\/?p=7107"},"modified":"2022-09-08T20:22:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T20:22:51","slug":"coaching-is-a-top-business-opportunity-and-success-takes-doing-the-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/coaching-is-a-top-business-opportunity-and-success-takes-doing-the-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Coaching is a Top Business Opportunity \u2026 and Success Takes Doing the Work!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.CoachCert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/coaching-is-a-top-business-opportunity.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-7119\" src=\"https:\/\/www.CoachCert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/coaching-is-a-top-business-opportunity-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"coaching is a top business opportunity\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/coaching-is-a-top-business-opportunity-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/coaching-is-a-top-business-opportunity-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>The idea of building the field and they will come is lovely.\u00a0 How real and effective is that philosophy?\u00a0 In terms of being a coach it seems to hold true for some and not for others.\u00a0 What is the difference?\u00a0 Chances are that newly certified coaches who have clients right away have a number of things in place before their coach training:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A positive reputation<\/li>\n<li>A great network<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.CoachCert.com\/coachingblog\/the-why-for-your-coaching-business-gets-noticed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A willingness to talk about what they do<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the same time chances are that coaches who are unsuccessful neither had these things in place nor did the work to put them in place effectively after their coaching certification.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is that coaching is the second fastest growing profession in the world.\u00a0 There is ample opportunity for coaching work.\u00a0 Securing a job, corporate clients, or individual clients takes work and along with that takes an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.CoachCert.com\/coachingblog\/building-a-coaching-business-efforts-earn-rewards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">effective approach<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To support your success as a coach, ask yourself these questions and write out your answers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is your reputation? What kind of reputation lends itself to people wanting you as their coach?\u00a0 How will you bridge the gaps?<\/li>\n<li>What is your network? Who do you want in your network to build your coaching business?\u00a0 How can you be of benefit to them?\u00a0 What do you want to ask of them?\u00a0 How will you approach them in a way that works?<\/li>\n<li>How comfortable are you describing your coaching work? How are you perceived when you describe your coaching work?\u00a0 What opportunities do you create for talking about your coaching work?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now use what you wrote to develop your strategies and action plans!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of building the field and they will come is lovely.\u00a0 How real and effective is that philosophy?\u00a0 In terms of being a coach &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[464,116,119,465,77,48,85,45,50,86,81,118,466,463,462,115,134,117,103],"class_list":["post-7107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-business-coach-certification","tag-business-coach-training","tag-career-coach-certification","tag-career-coach-training","tag-client","tag-coach","tag-coach-training","tag-coaches","tag-coaching","tag-coaching-certification","tag-coaching-success","tag-executive-coach-certification","tag-executive-coach-training","tag-health-coach-certification","tag-health-coach-training","tag-icf-approved-coach-training","tag-life-coach-training","tag-life-coaching-certification","tag-opportunities","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7107"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10326,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7107\/revisions\/10326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}