{"id":1257,"date":"2012-03-17T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T18:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/?p=1257"},"modified":"2012-02-24T12:52:42","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T18:52:42","slug":"who-are-becoming-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/who-are-becoming-clients\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are Becoming Clients?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an excerpt from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.coachstart.com\/\">CoachStart Manual<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Clients are generally people:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Wanting to change something in their life<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Wanting more of something<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Tolerating too much<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Wanting to switch careers<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Wanting to improve their career<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Looking for a bigger goal<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Desiring to achieve something faster<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Who are bored<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Who feel something is missing<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Who realize they can be much more successful with outside input.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Executives<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Managers<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0CEOs<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Housewives<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Professionals<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Creative people<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Entrepreneurs<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Small Business Owners<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Below are some solid statistics from a past ICF client survey. While the data is several years old, the general characteristics are still relevant today, although we might expect a trend towards more lower-income and non-professional clients embracing coaching:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>\u00a065 of the respondents were male (31%), and 145 were female (69%).<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>\u00a0Average age was 45 years, with respondents being within the age range of 24-67 years of age.<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>\u00a0Most were employed as professionals.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>\u00a0Education gained: 82% had gained degrees, with one third gaining a Masters degree or higher.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an excerpt from the\u00a0CoachStart Manual. Clients are generally people: \u00a0Wanting to change something in their life \u00a0Wanting more of something \u00a0Tolerating too much \u00a0Wanting to switch careers \u00a0Wanting to improve their career \u00a0Looking for a bigger goal \u00a0Desiring to achieve something faster \u00a0Who are bored \u00a0Who feel something is missing \u00a0Who realize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[156],"tags":[181,353,349,182],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2007,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions\/2007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}