Self Assessments for New Coaches

As you study to become a life coach, you're probably learning a great deal about how to understand people better but you may not be learning enough about yourself. The unfortunate truth is that too many new coaches don't end up earning enough as a coach to stay in the business. There are a lot of different factors that go into this (I regularly cover them in the Coach's First Year Blog) but this post is going to be focused on one in particular Lack of self awareness.

By taking a few self assessments, you can significantly improve your chances of becoming a successful life coach.

Identify Your Needs

According Human Needs Psychology (developed by Anthony Robbins), everything we do is driven by the need to meet the following 6 needs:
If you're familiar with Tony Robbins, you've probably heard of Human Needs Psychology - a concept he created to explain why people do what they do. Variety - The need to have different forms of stimulus

1. Significance feeling important, needed
2.Certainty safety, stability and consistency
3.Variety change, different experiences
4.Love/Connection -
5.Growth learning and improving in different areas
6.Contribution the need to contribute to others

We all meet each of these needs in some way but we all have a different preference for which are most important to us. To get a better understanding of why you do what you do, it helps to identify which are the most important for you.

For example, if you have a high need for certainty, you may tend to over-think things before you take risks. Or if you have a high need for variety, you may bounce from one thing to another without making much progress because your need for variety could be causing you to continuously bounce to the next new thing before you complete previous endeavors.

Play To Your Strengths

Many experts say that its best to play to your strengths instead of spending too much time trying to fix your weaknesses. Most successful people surround themselves with people that compliment their skills. If you want to be successful as a new coach, youre better off focusing on what youre good at and hiring people to help you with the things youd rather not do.

What Are Your Values?

People with a clear sense of what their values are can usually make quicker and better decisions than those that have never taken the time to identify their values.

There are a lot of different values exercises you can go through many of which are quite simple. To identify your values, just brainstorm a list of things that are important to you. Values are usually feelings rather than material things. For example, its the feeling you get from money that you value, not the actual bills themselves.