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Health Coach Course Syllabus
- Who needs a health coach?
- What does health coaching involve?
- Why be a health coach?
- The different types of coaching
- Understanding yourself
- The skills you need
- Clients’ bad habits
- Typical client concerns
- Concerns at different ages
- Barriers to change
- Understanding a client’s problem
- Methods of tackling clients’ concerns
- Assignment
- Changing your client’s perceptions and values
- Step out of your comfort zone
- Self belief. Changing the client’s self image
- Negative thoughts
- Fatalism
- Fear of failure
- Self deception
- Preconceptions, Procrastination
- Strategies for change
- Visualisations
- Persistence
- Getting the client to take action
- Gap analysis
- SMART goals
- Format for setting goals and identifying achievements
- Assignment
- Assessing your client’s current diet
- Educating your client about a healthy and nutritious diet
- Preparing a diet plan
- Motivating your client to make and follow dietary
- Healthy eating tips
- What makes a healthy diet
- Understanding food labels
- Understanding Recommended Daily Allowances
- Common problems
- Diets to help deal with stress, fatigue, and sleep problems
- Special nutritional requirements of women
- Nutritional needs for adults
- How to use diet to promote a healthy immune system
- Identifying the problem
- Testing for allergies and intolerances
- Gluten free
- Dairy free
- Other intolerances
- Diets for diabetes
- Getting your client to incorporate activity into their existing lifestyle
- Being a kid
- Office fitness
- Household fitness
- Helping your client choose an aerobic activity
- Walking
- Jogging and running
- Cycling outdoors
- Racket games
- Swimming
- Roller skating
- Find an activity that your client enjoys
- Encouraging your client to enjoy themselves
- Make it a priority
- Find a diversion
- Reward your client
- Changing the Client’s Mindset: counselling techniques
- Changing the client’s lifestyle and mindset
- Counselling techniques for weight reduction
- Getting the client to take responsibility
- Creative visualisation
- Hypnotherapy
- Virtual gastric band
- Maslow’s hierarchy of Needs
- ERG Theory
- Stress – getting the right level of stress
- Identifying stress
- Conquering stress
- Tension headaches
- Getting in control
- Physical changes
- Other ways the client can conquer stress
- Depression – Symptoms of stress
- Refuges
- Dealing with the depressed client
- Actions a client can take
- Self image
- Endogenous depression
- Anti depressants
- Getting more sleep
- Assignment
- Identifying different client groups
- Understanding the possible specialisations in the field
- Marketing your business
- How will you position yourself
- Sources of work
- Your website
- Making your website work
- Your e-book
- Networking
- Leaflet drop
- Seminars
- Using PR to get business
- Gaining referrals
- Advertising
- Assignment
- How to respond to an enquiry
- The cautious prospect
- Identify the client’s area of concern
- Listen for buying signals
- Move towards a sale
- Talk about payment
- Finishing the call
- Next steps for the unsure prospect
- Next steps for your new client
- Keeping track of your prospects
- A quick re-cap
- How coaching works
- The first call
- The first face to face meeting
- What coaching isn’t
- Helping the client reach a conclusion
- A note about medical conditions
- When coaching fails
- Listening skills
- Don’t use jargon
- The presenting problem
- Challenging the client
- Emotional or sexual involvement
- The right attributes for a client
- Assignment
- The ‘Welcome’ letter to the client
- Brochure
- Checklist
- ‘Life Satisfaction Check’ Form
- ‘My commitment to you’ Form
- ‘What I need from you’ Form
- Questionnaire
- Your own systems and paperwork
- Pre-consultation forms and the first consultation
- Goal setting
- Instructing a client on keeping a food diary
- Maintaining accurate records
- Setting your price. How much should you charge?
- Putting up your charges
- Discounts
- Payment
- Terminating the sessions
- Competition
- The coaching business
- Keeping clients and the bank manager happy
- Client files
- Handling clients you don’t like
- The ‘form of business’
- Your business name
- Keeping the books
- Your accountant
- Paying tax
- Liaising with other professionals
- Using Transactional Analysis
- Assignment
