A life coach provides coaching to people on issues relating to their lives. outside of work environment.
It can be to boost their confidence level in the family, society or community, dealing with life and family pressures, learning to reduce their stress.
In short helping them improve upon their lives and making it more easy and graceful for them
A Career coach will helps employees in overcoming work related issues, becoming better or more efficient at their workplace ,helping them in their professional development and in shaping their career progression.
It may be things like managing career change, dealing with difficult manager, improving on lack of confidence in leadership, handling administrative matters etc. to name a few.
Generally, Coaches would specialize on a niche , be it life or career depending upon their training and personal experience.
In my case, I chose to become a coach after long years of service in public and private sector.
My major responsibilities has always been to lead , train and task people.
We had an extensive HR and in order to move , rotate , refresh and re-skills such a huge population , with time I got so much used to working with people that I enjoyed every aspect of it. You can’t task and lead people if you do not know them completely. This entails knowing the team members, their families , their issues and helping them overcome them to the extent possible. If you can take care of an employee personal and professional issues, you can make him become extremely reliable and effective.
This is from where I got the confidence to become a life and corporate coach. This what I do, making people become happy in their lives and at work.
I hope, this answered your question, Laura. If you need more, let me know.
Cheers Neel.
