Chapter 9. Becoming a coach

There are many reasons why you may be reading this book. Your reasons may include a consideration of coaching as a career, a way of providing income; or it may be that you want to add coaching to what you already do. If either of these reasons relate to you, then this next chapter is designed to help. I’d like to offer you some questions and perspectives that might assist with your decision to become a coach and also how you make that happen. The questions that follow are designed to help you ‘coach yourself’ to become clearer about your situation and what changes you may need to make. This chapter will focus mainly on your internal thought processes. To gain the most benefit, I encourage you to work through the groups ...

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