Cuts in healthcare jobs, salaries and benefits have prompted healthcare professionals to investigate other career paths. While nurses are inundated with paperwork, less direct patient care, short staffing and overwork, some have touted personal coaching as the next adjunct to a nursing career.
Many healthcare professionals are flocking to the field of coaching and they feel as though they have rediscovered their professional calling. The field of coaching is booming and is listed as one of the top 10 fastest growing professions in the United States. It is expected that having a personal coach will be as common as having a financial planner or a personal trainer.
Many people are struggling to create the life they really want. The field of personal coaching emerged in response to this desire for a better life. When clients hired a personal coach, people found that they were able to design a life they wanted without struggling.
Healthcare professionals are finding that they make natural coaches and have the right skill set to succeed. As a nursing practitioner, you are use to making people more comfortable, administering a dose of support and compassion, positive goal setting, training in a healthy outlook, excellent communication skills, nurturing and giving patients instructions on how to take care of themselves and maintain optimal health. Think of the skills, nurturing that led you into healthcare as you look at what makes a great coach. You already have the ability to work with a large variety of client populations, are motivated and open to new principles and applications. Nurses can lend a medical perspective to personal coaching as a profession. Many busy clients don't take the time to care for themselves as they should. Their lives are fragmented with the daily stress of work, family and chores accumulating and building. They are struggling … their lives don't flow and they are desperate to make their lives work somehow. You can help…
Healthcare professionals are going through rocky times. Many are choosing to select a more positive, healthy profession that will still allow them to have a positive impact on others. Some healthcare professionals are being forced to find new ways to supplement their incomes. For many, coaching is the answer.
A personal coach is an objective partner who is totally committed to the client's success. A coach dramatically expands the client's perspective to see new opportunities and innovative solutions, helps identify obstacles and move easily and quickly around them, assists in making better decisions with less effort and keeps the client focused to insure short-term and long-term success.
Among the many reasons to hire a coach are: the ability to make more money, spend less time working, reduce the amount of stress, balance the demands of work and family, rediscover the passion in work, put more fun in life, start or grow a business, transition into a new career and work smarter not harder.
Most coaches meet with their clients three or four times a month for 30-minute telephone sessions. This makes it easy and convenient for the client and enables the coach to build a practice without geographic boundaries. Fees for coaching services range from $250 to well over $1000 a month for highly specialized coaching.
In addition to helping others live a more balanced and satisfying life, healthcare professionals who become personal coaches enjoy other benefits. The freedom and financial benefits of coaching allow them to work less and spend more time with their families, while making more money. Successful coaches can earn six-figure incomes working from the comfort of their own homes.
We often are so caught up in daily living that we forget that we have the power to create a life that is filled with joy, passion and contentment. Coaching is a way to help people discover their American dream. A coach is a partner who, like an athletic trainer, can push us to grow, be stronger and be a winner in the game of life.
As the demand for coaching continues to grow, so do the opportunities. Many coaches choose to build a private coaching practice working with individuals, groups or businesses. Others may become corporate coaches who are hired to work internally for consulting companies or even large firms. Still others, learn coaching skills as a way to bring greater value to their role as a healthcare manager.
Again, by contrast, coaching requires little paperwork and more direct client contact. There is no shift work, just agreeing on a time that is mutually beneficial to client and coach. No punching a time clock, just flexibility, you facilitate the client to arrive at their own answers and conclusions about what works in their lives.
With personal coaching as an option, healthcare professionals once again are able to find the meaningful work they were meant to do, spend more time with family and enjoy a growing field.
Training to be a Certified Comprehensive Coach can be done from the convenience of your own phone through telephone classes and can be completed in about 6 months. Then you are on your way to a lucrative, personally rewarding and meaningful career. After all, isn't helping people one of the reasons you entered nursing to begin with?
To find out more about coaching or transitioning into the field of coaching go to: http://www.comprehensivecoachingu.com/ or e-mail info@comprehensivecoachingu.com or call toll free 1-877-401-6165.
Terri Levine
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