Coaching requires many specific skills. Being a people person is very helpful, because some of these skills may come naturally to a people person.
Skills of a coach include, but are not limited to, having the ability to read the person you are coaching, having the ability to give helpful advice in an easily understood manner, and possessing the skills you, as a coach, are teaching.
A coach needs to clearly understand what it is the client is asking for and have clear goals for himself/herself and the client. A coach needs to repeat back to the client what he/she hears the client asking for, to make sure what the client is saying is what the coach is hearing and understanding.
Coaching requires a person to be self-confident, knowledgeable, patient, understanding. He/she must have the ability to listen to the client and construct his/her coaching around the client’s needs.

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