A number of mistakes have been noted that amateur and professional health and wellness coaches commit and that must be avoided. This blog addresses these mistakes for you to understand as to how you being a health and wellness coach, can avoid making them. Instead of considering the rectification of these mistakes an option, it is of utmost significance that these errors are avoided for a better client experience that not only helps them be successful as a health and wellness coach but also helps the client attain the pre-decided goals for weight loss and sustainable health and wellness in general.
Here are some of the common mistakes that the health and wellness coaches commonly make and how can these be avoided
1. Attached to the client – Being too attached to the client and the final outcome is crucial for you as a health and wellness coach to understand that it is not your whole sole responsibility to rectify and fix all your clients’ problems. The most important job of a health and wellness coach is to listen and then guide accordingly.
2. Judging the clients – Some health and wellness coaches end up judging their respective clients for any harmful or unhealthy choices that their clients make. It is of utmost importance for a health and wellness coach to understand and relate to the clients’ problems and deal with the potential obstacles in the coaching process with compassion and empathy.
3. Making assumptions – The believes and notions of a health and wellness coach must at no cost hinder the entire coaching process from the end of the coach. At times, the health and wellness coaches make assumptions about their clients based on their experience so far, and that is just not the way to go about things in a health and wellness coaching program. This is also because every client is different from the other and faces a different set of problems for which they need their coach to act differently yet in a relatable way.
4. Talking instead of listening – It is significant for a health and wellness coach to always keep in mind the notion ‘ask, don’t tell’. This notion basically suggests and brings up the importance of asking the right kind of questions to the clients, listening to the answers carefully and then, at last, gathering the right set of facts to move towards collaboratively finding the solutions.
5. Taking up a theoretical rather than a realistic approach – Another common mistake that the health and wellness coaches make is taking a theoretical rather than a more realistic, holistic and practical approach towards the clients.
Conclusion
It is vital for a health and wellness coach to be their most real self as part of the health and wellness program that Welji offers. The health and wellness coaches must work towards helping their clients attain sustainable health and wellness goals and trust the whole process.
