How a coaching log can help you get certified

Coaching is a vast field with various areas of expertise, but to truly shine and stand out, you need to keep a coaching log so you can go on to earn valuable certifications as your career progresses.

There are various organisations in the world that offer different degrees of certifications, but they all have one thing in common – they want to see your coaching experience in the form of time spent coaching.

To get certified, you as a coach will need to sit for training lectures and activities. You will need to earn your certificate in the classroom, but in order to earn the best certifications, you need to prove your experience in coaching.

A coaching log helps you keep track of your activity

It might sound like a no-brainer, but you should always keep a coaching log. It is also good practice to log any learning time you dedicate to your area of expertise.

To get certified by a particular organisation, your training may require you to log, for example, 50 hours of coaching with 30 being paid hours and 20 being pro bono.

To prove this, you would have to go through a complicated and time-consuming process of logging coaching hours and having your clients sign off on them.

You will then need to manually enter your time into a spreadsheet and update it every month.

Then you would have to check to see whether the organisation you are trying to get certified with would accept them in such format.

It is not only tedious and time-consuming, but it is also prone to error. And more often than not, you will probably forget to update your spreadsheet faithfully thus losing out on capturing all of your valuable coaching time.

CoachVantage has an inbuilt coaching log

Thankfully, there are platforms out there such as CoachVantage that have an inbuilt coaching log system that automatically logs your coaching hours.

You can capture time into the log as  ‘paid sessions’, or ‘pro bono’ sessions. The best part is that the system never ‘forgets’ to log your coaching time, so you can rest assured that 100% of your coaching time gets logged without fail. 

This benefits you as it means you can get certified faster, and justifiably so!

CoachVantage’s amazing features do not stop there. The platform also allows you to instantly export your log as a CSV file at the touch of a button.

Once you try it, you will wonder why you never thought of using a platform with the feature before.

Try CoachVantage’s coaching log for free

CoachVantage is one of the most highly-rated coaching platforms on the market, but don’t take our word for it, try it out for yourself.

Sign up today and you will get a 14-day free trial with unlimited access to all CoachVantage’s features, including our coaching log and billing system.