15 Topics to Consider Covering in Training Videos for Coaches

If your organization provides certification for career coaches or life coaches, you’re probably already aware of the importance of training videos for coaches, but do you know what topics to cover with your training? As a career coach or life coach, professional development conversations are quite common, but your clients may struggle to fully understand just how much you can help them when it comes to establishing and achieving their goals. That’s why it’s absolutely vital to cover a wide range of topics that will help them to understand where and how you can best assist the client in achieving their personal goals in life and in their careers. 

To ensure the best training for your coaches, we’ve created a list of 15 powerful topics that you can consider covering with training videos for coaches that are part of your certification course or program. This is by no means an exhaustive list nor is it a complete list of topics that your coaches should be covering with clients, but it’s a good starting point with plenty of ideas and room for you to expand your training initiatives in a way that’s most effective for your students.

Professional Development Training Videos for Coaches

Training your coaches on professional development is key as any of their clients, whether seeking life coaching or career coaching, are going to be interested in how they can grow professionally to achieve their goals. A great career coach is going to cover everything from developing a professional growth strategy to making personal assessments to identify areas for improved growth and to set proper professional development goals. Here are some topics to consider covering in this area of focus:

1. Goal Setting – many people really don’t know how to set goals that are SMART. They often struggle to set actionable goals too, so this is a great place to begin with teaching what to do and how to get started.
2. Strategic Decision Making – covering not only how to assess a client’s existing decision-making abilities but also how to improve them is key here.
3. Roadblocks & Obstacles – covering how to recognize self-induced roadblocks or obstacles that a client creates for him or herself is essential to professional development.
4. Performance Metrics – this involves teaching clients how to recognize their performance and how to monitor or review to keep track of their own improvements.
5. Skills Identification – training videos for coaches should cover identifying skills as well as how to acquire the skills that are necessary to achieve client goals.

Professional Growth Training Videos for Coaches

Coaches are often expected to provide training to clients on how to grow and work toward achieving goals in a specific direction personally and professionally. With just 24 hours in a day, training clients on how to use their time most wisely to achieve their goals is what professional growth is all about. Working with a coach provides clients the ability to learn how to create a professional growth plan that will drive them closer to their career goals, life goals, or any other goals they may have. Consider these topics which cover this area of focus in your training videos for coaches:

6. Habit Building – how to recognize and build strong habits while pushing out negative habits or routines.
7. Time Management – how to maximize use of time, set boundaries that are healthy for personal and professional growth, and get the most out of training.
8. Motivation – how to recognize and optimize internal and external motivation factors.
9. Being Proactive – how to recognize when being reactive isn’t helping you to achieve goals and what it takes to be more proactive.
10. Delegating Tasks – how to recognize a task that isn’t worth your time or that you are not “as good” at and which is better delegated to someone else so that you can focus more on work that is important or more your style.

Personal Branding Training Videos for Coaches

Coaches that help with life or career coaching are also expected to provide training on personal branding. This is particularly important in today’s society, with the growth of the internet, social media, networking, and contracting which means almost everyone is expected to have their own personal brand. Training clients on how to build a personal brand that aligns with their personal and professional growth goals and will enhance their ability to build the career that they want is an essential skill for any coach to have. Consider these topics on personal branding with your training videos for coaches:

11. Behavior Consistency – like any brand, your personal brand must be consistent in how it is perceived which means you must behave with consistency.
12. The Personal Pitch – as a personal brand, clients should have their own elevator pitch that includes quick details of their background or story, and sets the foundation for others essentially stating “This is why I’m the one you should listen to about this subject…”
13. Credibility – your actions directly impact your credibility which is why it is important to communicate how, and why, you are the most credible individual on your particular subject or topic of interest.
14. Accountability – like any brand, accountability for a personal brand’s actions, behavior, and activities is an essential skill.
15. Awareness – particularly self-awareness is a skill that can help clients identify areas for growth as well as areas where they may be less than aware. Both are important.

As you can see, there are plenty of topics to cover with training videos for coaches. All you have to do is give Beverly Boy Productions a call to get started with the next videos in your training program!