This program creates a coaching mindset and builds foundational skills for you to demonstrate professional coaching. The curriculum focuses on development in the 8 Core Competencies defined by the International Coaching Federation (ICF). In addition, you are introduced to our trademark Generative Coaching principles. These are incorporated as a unique way for you to apply the core competencies with clients who are seeking conscious choice and sustained change in their lives.
For you to be effective as a professional coach, this program develops a highly refined communicating and relating skill set and mindset. When applied consistently and artfully the value to your clients results from your commitment to partner on the client’s behalf, and most fully with the whole, resourceful and creative core of the person.
Through practice, experimentation, feedback and developmental mentor coaching you learn to witness generative moments occur for your clients. Within a highly collegial and collaborative environment, you learn to facilitate and navigate any type of coaching session, and a coaching relationship over time. When you reach completion of the program, you are confidently competent assisting your clients to achieve sustainable change.
Also included in this curriculum is access to tools and processes to attract, enroll and engage with paying clients. Some business basics and best practices for initiating a coaching practice are woven into the curriculum so you are being a professional coach in a confident and competent way by the end of the program.
Many people are very motivated after this program to continue to broaden skills and strengthen demonstration to a more artful level. In addition to offering this program standalone, it is also part of a more integrated and expanded program to become an inviteCHANGE Certified Generative Coach. The design and schedule are flexible and timed to accommodate working professionals around the globe.