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CERTIFICATE IN BUSINESS AND LIFE COACHING VPS008

Duration (approx) 600 hours
Qualification

Work in Business Coaching and Life Coaching with this flexible qualification

    • Study Life coaching, business  coaching, business operations, marketing psychology and more with this course. 
    • This combined qualification offers you wider options in terms of work - both in the business world and supporting the individual.
    • This 600 hour course offers an excellent opportunity to study business coaching and life coaching in your own home.

    Modules

    Core ModulesThese modules provide foundation knowledge for the CERTIFICATE IN BUSINESS AND LIFE COACHING VPS008
     BUSINESS COACHING BBS304
     LIFE COACHING BPS305
    Elective ModulesIn addition to the core modules, students study any 4 of the following 9 modules.
     BUSINESS OPERATIONS VBS006
     BUSINESS PLANNING BBS302
     BUSINESS STUDIES BBS101
     CAREERS COUNSELLING BPS202
     ETHICS BPS217
     FINANCIAL (MONEY) MANAGEMENT BBS104
     INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY BPS101
     JOB PROFILING BPS228
     MARKETING PSYCHOLOGY BPS107

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    Train to be a Business and Life Coach

    • Covers lots more than standard life coaching courses.

    • Learning more, you can do more; offer a wider range of services and have greater potential to develop a successful life coach or business coach practice.

    • Start anytime, study from anywhere, building your business as you study, if you wish.

    Duration:   600 hours of self paced study.

    ACS Distance Education is an organisational member of the Association For Coaching. Students on the course are eligible to join the association as student members.

    The course requires the completion of 2 Core Modules plus a further 4 Elective Modules.  You will therefore complete a total of 6 modules.

    Start Date Start the course at any time and work at a pace to suit you.

    Assignments Required

    At the end of each lesson, there is an assignment that you submit to your tutor for marking. For example, the Life Coaching module has ten lesson, so you would complete ten assignments. If you do not pass an assignment for any reason, your tutor will provide feedback and you will be given the opportunity to redo the assignment.

    Exams Required

    To pass the course, you are also required to complete six exams, one for each module. Exams can be taken at a time and location to suit you. You can find more information on how the exams work by clicking here.

    What Should a Business or Life Coach Charge?

    There is no set amount of money you will earn as a Coach.

    It will ultimately depend on the type of service you offer, your experience, your qualifications, the country you are in, your confidence and marketing ability, and the way you have chosen to structure your fees. To get an idea, have a look at what other similar services in your area charge. You may decide to “undercut” the market price to try and get clients, or you may choose to offer an elite service that is much higher than the going rate. The way you price your service may affect the impression people have about your service (i.e. how good it is), the higher the price the higher the perceived value – however be careful not to price yourself too high and price yourself out of the market.
    Generally speaking, as a new coach it is likely that you will start with lower fees and increase them over time. Another way to increase your potential salary is to offer group life coaching sessions where you may charge a lower fee, but have many more clients at one time. 
    You may also build into your fees a programme structure, so people may pay a certain rate for a one-off consultation, or a fixed rate for a certain number of sessions. To get the most out of life coaching a client will really need to come and see you more than once, so offering a fixed price for a certain number of sessions is probably the best way to go. You may arrange for your clients to pay upfront, or pay it off over time. 
    As well as offering a flexible course of sessions, where the coaching continues indefinitely, you may also consider preparing a programme of a fixed length with a set structure and purpose. For example you may put together a 12 week health or business development programme that has weekly one hour sessions in the first month with set topics (for example, a life coach may deal with nutrition in week one, exercise in week two, psychological aspects in week three, and healthy lifestyle tips in week four), followed by a fortnightly one hour maintenance sessions for the following 9 weeks. 

     

     

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