The fitness industry is set up like a snake eating its tail. It gives certification and requires cecs to keep that certification and then offers limited sources of those approved credits.  New trainers and educators in the wellness space are conditioned to believe that if it doesn’t give us some external validation through approved CEC’s or the magic of letters after your name then it’s not worth the time to study. So we look for more and more of what to teach clients instead of developing the skills to better communicate what we know.
I’m not saying certification isn’t important. In the beginning it is. But after that you should shift your focus from what to teach to how you teach it. Those letters after your name might get you in the door but they don’t get you more or better clients. They don’t get your clients better results. They won’t get you better results either.

What does, are things we call soft skills. 3 in particular for coaches but could be applied to pretty much anyone who works with people. These are areas that I have personally felt were missing in my own years of training and collecting CEC’s. 

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