A Career as a Health Coach
David Hulsey provides three valuable tips for success as a health coach for a top football team.
Whether you start in the profession after receiving certification or grow your current health and wellness career, working as a health and wellness coach for a top football team can be rewarding and life-changing. This article offers some advice on having a long and successful career as a health and wellness coach of a leading football team.
Realize that you are a guide
As a passionate and well-meaning professional, you may feel driven to push your clients to adopt healthier lifestyle habits by providing precise instructions for achieving their health and wellness goals.
However, lasting change in your clients' lives can only be brought about through skilled guiding, which is achieved by asking the right questions and listening actively. Telling them what to do and trying to direct their behaviour is ineffective in the long run.
Resist the temptation to rely too much on your status as an expert and give your clients simple assurance, accountability, encouragement, and direction. To effectively bring about real change, you need to listen as much as you talk and learn how to skillfully guide your clients into making the right choices for themselves.
Develop a robust professional network
It is better to build and nurture good relationships with your fellow health and wellness professionals than to only see them as your competition. That is the best way to ensure you provide your clients with the best services. By joining forces with like-minded people in your profession, you add value to each other's practices.
Working as a team helps you develop internal and external services and allows you to share clients with whom you have built a working relationship. Counterintuitive as it may seem, sharing clients with other health and wellness professionals does not hurt your business. It results in the growth of your career and the integration of multiple dimensions of wellness.
Do not be afraid to embrace your authentic self
As you build a name for yourself as a health coach, it can be tempting to imitate the styles of well-established coaches. However, when building a brand and carving out a niche in the market, staying true to who you are and your unique style of coaching will ultimately set you apart and earn you respect.
You need to realize soon that, as in almost any other services industry, it is impossible to please everyone. Focus your energy on developing your unique craft and watch as you attract a unique set of clients. An authentic approach also leads to loving your work and avoiding burnout.
In conclusion, remember that as a health and wellness coach for a top football team, you need to continually grow your capacity to work with different clients in wide-ranging environments. Even in cases where clients share the same goal, the principle of bio-individuality applies, meaning each client's path to success will be different.
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About the Author
David V. Hulsey has worked as a health coach in the health, fitness, and wellness industry for 13 years. He has written numerous articles and blog posts about health and wellness-related topics, including starting your journey to all-around health.