There are two reasons that professional training and certification is recommended:
1. Coaching is a skill. It needs to be learned and honed prior to calling yourself a professional coach.
There is a gap between happy and unhappy individuals and successful and not-yet-successful individuals. There are specific tools and strategies that a coach needs to know to take to take clients from category A (unhappy) to category B (happy).
2. The second reason you should consider certification is that your clients want to know you have been trained and that you have the certification to prove it.
Filed under: Coach Questions, Why do I need to be certified?
