Making 2019 The Best Yet

Happy New Year! I am so excited about the opportunities I see for coaching in 2019. I feel a new energy and a groundswell happening around coaching. It is catching on and catching fire. I hope you are experiencing this as well.

We want to seize the moment and hit the ground running in 2019. That’s why we will be kicking off the year with two fantastic programs.

• Our next Fast Track to ICF Credential starts Monday, January 7. And just for the January class we are making a special offer with huge savings. The January class will include 3 hours of 1:1 mentor coaching for FREE. You save $595 CDN/ $465 US.

If you have been thinking of pursuing the ICF ACC, there couldn’t be a better time.

Learn more and register here

Also, in January we are holding our extremely popular webinar: live coaching sessions. These webinars give you the opportunity to observe real coaches in real coaching situations. These are not rehearsed or scripted. Our live coaching session webinars have proven to be an excellent learning tool. You see different approaches and styles at work. And, each time we offer this webinar we change the coach, coachee and topic giving you a new learning opportunity in each webinar. Read more below.

Educational Webinars

Education and Training Courses

Build Core Competencies

Coaching Fundamentals™

ICF Core Competency Hours: 15

Coaching is catching on. More and more people are turning to coaching because coaching produces results. The performance of individuals, teams and organizations are being transformed when coaching skills are developed, used and become part of the culture. If you are intrigued by what is happening with coaching and want to learn core coaching skills, this fundamentals class is for you.

This is a hands-on class that includes practical techniques for trust building, focused listening, evocative questioning, planning and goal setting. The course includes practice sessions that are reviewed by a professional coach who provides feedback on coaching skills and comprehension of the competencies. You will learn the skills and gain the confidence needed to use them. Click on the course name to learn more and register.

Coaching Fundamentals™ - Starts January 30

Testimonial: Coaching Fundamentals was essential to my growth as a human resources professional. I feel like I have the tools I need to have powerful conversations with the people I work with.

5/5/5 Coaching Skills Training Program™

ICF Core Competency Hours: 12

If your goals include starting a coaching business or using coaching to lead within an organization, you won't want to miss our 5/5/5 Coaching Skills Training Program™.

During this course participants learn advanced questioning, multidimensional listening and framing skills. Through the simple, intuitive and highly transferable 5/5/5 Coaching Skills™ framework, participants acquire tools to ask powerful questions, listen in a new way, build trust and provide productive feedback. These skills help coaches guide their coachees to new insights, discoveries and breakthroughs that will help them become self-reliant problem solvers and goal achievers. Join over 18,000 participants who have gone through this transformational program. Click on the title below to learn more and register.

5/5/5 Coaching Skills Training Program™ - Starts January 7

Testimonial: I got so much more from the 5/5/5 Coaching Skills Training Program than expected. I thought it would be more theoretical about the basics of coaching, but we delved right into the depth of the most important skills and used them together in a practical way. I gained so much confidence in a short period of time through role playing and receiving feedback from my peers. This was a very inspiring course that has given me new life skills. – Robin R.

Advance Your Skills

Advanced Coaching Skills Practicum

ICF Core Competency Hours: 12

Are you looking to enhance your coaching skills? Take your coaching to the next level? Or maybe you are looking for tools to help you with your biggest coaching challenges. If any of these apply, check out our Advanced Coaching Skills Practicum.

Participants of this program will refine their coaching skills by coaching others and hearing others coach in a virtual classroom overseen and critiqued by an ICF certified professional coach. The environment fosters real-time learning for those doing the coaching and for those observing. Participants in this course;

• Gain confidence in their ability to coach
• Hear a variety of styles and methods by hearing others coach
• Get immediate feedback on their coaching and use of the core coaching skills by an ICF Certified Coach
• Are challenged to coach at a whole new and higher level in a fun and supportive way
• Receive coaching tips, techniques and demonstrations from an ICF Certified Coach

Click on the course title to learn more and register.

Advanced Coaching Skills Practicum - Starts January 31

Testimonial: Advanced Coaching Skills Practicum is an action-packed class where you learn coaching by coaching. The facilitator creates a unique and supportive environment where everyone's improve their coaching skills receiving constructive feedback. ACSP gives you the confidence needed to start building the coaching hours for certification. – Caroline P.

Personal Groundwork for Coaching™

ICF Core Competency Hours: 20

Are you looking to enhance your coaching skills or take your coaching to the next level? Or maybe you need to obtain CCE credits to renew your ICF credential or add to your coach specific training hours. If any of these apply, check out our Personal Groundwork for Coaching™.

In this course you will learn advanced coaching skills to help highlight and explore areas that are often at the source of where a coachee becomes stuck, self-defeating or demotivated. You will also learn how to use the accompanying Personal Groundwork for Coaching Assessment™ Workbook, a widely-used tool to help coaches move their clients past daily symptoms and into the deeper source of what is getting in their way and preventing them from reaching their goals.

This is a hands-on class. Each week you will work (outside of the classroom) with a different learning partner to coach one another around the concepts covered in the class. Click on the course name to learn more and register.

Personal Groundwork for Coaching™ - starts January 8

Testimonial: This program exceeded my expectations! I walked away with a toolbox of coaching strategies and personally made changes and grew in my own life. It was excellent. - Karen R.

Take the Fast Track to Your ICF Credential

Fast Track to ICF Credential

Fulfils the educational requirements for obtaining the ICF ACC credential

Develop the skills and set yourself apart by jumping on the Fast Track. Coaching is becoming more and more competitive and yet many coaches have no credential and minimal training. One of the best ways to set yourself apart is to complete the training and earn a coaching credential.

But pursuing your ICF Credential is a big step and commitment. That is why we created the Fast Track to ICF Credential - to streamline the process and make it as convenient as possible.

Benefits of the Fast Track to ICF Credential include;

● FAST TRACK: Takes only 6 months to complete (other programs may take as long as 18 months).

● ROBUST, DISTANCE-BASED LEARNING: We use cutting-edge technology to create an in-person, interactive classroom experience while you participate remotely.

● TOP-NOTCH EDUCATION AND TRAINING: You get world-class instruction from expert coaches with experience in both coaching and teaching.

● FLEXIBLE SCHEDULE: We offer day and evening classes for your convenience, and new classes start throughout the year.

● AFFORDABLE: This program is priced to fit into your budget. Save $495 US / $595 CDN when you register for the package option. Don’t need the package option? You also have the choice of taking separate modules a la carte. We even have a payment plan.

Our next program (day classes) starts January 7.

And just for the January class we are making a special offer with huge savings. The January class will include 3 hours of 1:1 mentor coaching for FREE. You save $595 CDN/ $465 US.

Click here to view the schedule

Testimonial: Coaching Out of the Box® gave me much more than what I expected. After the first couple sessions of FastTrack I was thinking, wow I've learned so much already and was really excited about what I would know by the end of the program. It didn't disappoint, I feel I'm a much better coach and understand coaching in a way that I never imagined I would. Excited about moving people forward with my new found understanding. - Brad W.

Become a Coaching Educator

Train the Trainer for 5/5/5 Coaching Skills Training Program™

ICF Core Competency Hours: 12

You've done the training, developed your coaching skills and now you are ready to leverage your expertise. But where do you go from here? If you want to expand your reach, add a new tool to your toolkit and a new source of revenue, this course may be just what you are looking for.

This course prepares you to become licensed to deliver the 5/5/5 Coaching Skills Training Program™. As you go through the course you will gain in-depth knowledge of advanced coaching skills and learn to use your skills in a new and expanded role.

Train the Trainer for 5/5/5 Coaching Skills Program™ – Starts February 5

Testimonial: I really enjoyed the small group training in the Train the Trainer Program. It was a safe space to get questions answered about presenting the 5/5/5 content to others. The teach backs were fun and gave everyone more confidence to get started training. – Carol H.

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A Strong Finish to 2018

I can’t believe we’ve only a few short days left in 2018. It has been a fantastic year full of growth, team building, refinements and trying new things, all with an eye towards continuous improvement. Through it all, our vision remains the same:

What if EVERYONE had 
COACHING SKILLS? 
Our VISION is that they will.

We want to make it as easy as possible for everyone to learn coaching skills and we were busy this year in adding resources and enhancements to better support you along your journey. As a reminder, here are a few things we have done to meet that objective.

• We offer six programs that teach everything from the fundamentals to advanced skills and preparation for the ICF CKA exam. These programs teach practical coaching skills whether you are an internal coach, external coach or manager / leader.
• We are continually enhancing the delivery of our Fast Track to ICF Credential to make it the most convenient and best value when it comes to fulfilling the requirements to become an ACC.
• We offer day and evening virtual courses multiple times throughout the year to make participation as convenient as possible.
• We are continually adding free resources to support you along your coaching journey. If you haven’t taken advantage of any of these resources, I urge you to look at what is offered. View the resources below or on our website;

Resources Overview

Find the many resources on our website under Coaching Resources. We are continually updating this section so check back often.

• Coaching guides
• Webinar recordings
• Testimonials
• Educational videos
• Newsletter
• Blog articles

Under Coaching Tools are 8 Guides covering the following topics;

• The Business of Coaching
• Coaching in Healthcare
• Coaching in Organizations
• Certification
• Advanced skills
• Results with coaching

Under Webinars you will find 22 recorded webinars spanning 6 topics;

• Certification (3)
• The Business of Coaching (3)
• Coaching Skills (6)
• Leveraging Your Coaching Skills (2)
• Coaching in Healthcare (3)
• Coaching in Organizations (5)

Under Testimonials you can view dozens of participant comments organized by program.

• Fast Track to ICF Credential
• 5/5/5 Coaching Skills Training Program™
• Coaching Fundamentals Program™
• Personal Groundwork for Coaching Program™
• Advanced Coaching Skills Practicum
• Train the Trainer for 5/5/5 Coaching Skills Training Program™
• Healthcare

Under Coaching Videos view dozens of Educational Videos;

• About COTBx
• About our programs
• Coaching Demonstrations
• Testimonials

Under Newsletter find our monthly email organized chronologically;

• Feature articles on a wide variety of trending topics
• Schedule of upcoming programs
• Updated List of Resources
• Inspirational quotes

Under Blog find over 100 Articles Covering Dozens of Coaching and Leadership Topics;

• Trends in Coaching and Leadership
• Overcoming Coaching Challenges
• Tips for Coaching Success
• Coaching Skills
• Certification
• Starting Your Coaching Business
• Leveraging Your Coaching Skills
• And much more

Under Virtual Classroom Videos find video clips from real classes to see how the virtual classroom works and the amount of interaction that possible.

Last but certainly not least – our Program Advisor, Sandra Angers is resource for you. If you have questions about us, our programs, the ICF and more, Sandra is available to assist. https://calendly.com/programadvisor/call-with-sandra

What is Next?

I hope your year has been full of growth, and you are wrapping up the year with a feeling of well-being and job well done. Take some time to reflect on all that you have accomplished this past year.

I also want to challenge you when you set your coaching / leadership goals for 2019. There has never been a better time to be a coach or a leader who knows how to use the coach approach. The outlook for coaching was recently discussed in an article published on the ICF website. The article highlights findings from a recent study: Executive Coaching for Results. According to the author, “perhaps most encouraging trend for the industry that has emerged from this study is that the use of coaching, in all its various forms (e.g., group coaching, team coaching, internal coaching, etc.), is generally predicted to increase over the next five years.” These are indeed exciting times. What will YOU do with this opportunity?

Education and Training Courses

Build Core Competencies

Coaching Fundamentals™

ICF Core Competency Hours: 15

Coaching is catching on. More and more people are turning to coaching because coaching produces results. The performance of individuals, teams and organizations are being transformed when coaching skills are developed, used and become part of the culture. If you are intrigued by what is happening with coaching and want to learn core coaching skills, this fundamentals class is for you.

This is a hands-on class that includes practical techniques for trust building, focused listening, evocative questioning, planning and goal setting. The course includes practice sessions that are reviewed by a professional coach who provides feedback on coaching skills and comprehension of the competencies. You will learn the skills and gain the confidence needed to use them. Click on the course name to learn more and register.

Coaching Fundamentals™ - Starts December 4

Testimonial: Coaching Fundamentals was essential to my growth as a human resources professional. I feel like I have the tools I need to have powerful conversations with the people I work with.

5/5/5 Coaching Skills Training Program™

ICF Core Competency Hours: 12

If your goals include starting a coaching business or using coaching to lead within an organization, you won't want to miss our 5/5/5 Coaching Skills Training Program™.

During this course participants learn advanced questioning, multidimensional listening and framing skills. Through the simple, intuitive and highly transferable 5/5/5 Coaching Skills™ framework, participants acquire tools to ask powerful questions, listen in a new way, build trust and provide productive feedback. These skills help coaches guide their coachees to new insights, discoveries and breakthroughs that will help them become self-reliant problem solvers and goal achievers. Join over 18,000 participants who have gone through this transformational program. Click on the title below to learn more and register.

5/5/5 Coaching Skills Training Program™ - Starts January 7

Testimonial: I got so much more from the 5/5/5 Coaching Skills Training Program than expected. I thought it would be more theoretical about the basics of coaching, but we delved right into the depth of the most important skills and used them together in a practical way. I gained so much confidence in a short period of time through role playing and receiving feedback from my peers. This was a very inspiring course that has given me new life skills. – Robin R.

Advance Your Skills

Advanced Coaching Skills Practicum

ICF Core Competency Hours: 12

Are you looking to enhance your coaching skills? Take your coaching to the next level? Or maybe you are looking for tools to help you with your biggest coaching challenges. If any of these apply, check out our Advanced Coaching Skills Practicum.

Participants of this program will refine their coaching skills by coaching others and hearing others coach in a virtual classroom overseen and critiqued by an ICF certified professional coach. The environment fosters real-time learning for those doing the coaching and for those observing. Participants in this course;

• Gain confidence in their ability to coach
• Hear a variety of styles and methods by hearing others coach
• Get immediate feedback on their coaching and use of the core coaching skills by an ICF Certified Coach
• Are challenged to coach at a whole new and higher level in a fun and supportive way
• Receive coaching tips, techniques and demonstrations from an ICF Certified Coach

Click on the course title to learn more and register.

Advanced Coaching Skills Practicum - Starts January 31, 2019

Testimonial: Advanced Coaching Skills Practicum is an action-packed class where you learn coaching by coaching. The facilitator creates a unique and supportive environment where everyone's improve their coaching skills receiving constructive feedback. ACSP gives you the confidence needed to start building the coaching hours for certification. – Caroline P.

Personal Groundwork for Coaching™

ICF Core Competency Hours: 20

Are you looking to enhance your coaching skills or take your coaching to the next level? Or maybe you need to obtain CCE credits to renew your ICF credential or add to your coach specific training hours. If any of these apply, check out our Personal Groundwork for Coaching™.

In this course you will learn advanced coaching skills to help highlight and explore areas that are often at the source of where a coachee becomes stuck, self-defeating or demotivated. You will also learn how to use the accompanying Personal Groundwork for Coaching Assessment™ Workbook, a widely-used tool to help coaches move their clients past daily symptoms and into the deeper source of what is getting in their way and preventing them from reaching their goals.

This is a hands-on class. Each week you will work (outside of the classroom) with a different learning partner to coach one another around the concepts covered in the class. Click on the course name to learn more and register.

Personal Groundwork for Coaching™ - starts January 8, 2019

Testimonial: This program exceeded my expectations! I walked away with a toolbox of coaching strategies and personally made changes and grew in my own life. It was excellent. - Karen R.

Take the Fast Track to Your ICF Credential

Fast Track to ICF Credential

Fulfils the educational requirements for obtaining the ICF ACC credential

Develop the skills and set yourself apart by jumping on the Fast Track. Coaching is becoming more and more competitive and yet many coaches have no credential and minimal training. One of the best ways to set yourself apart is to complete the training and earn a coaching credential.

But pursuing your ICF Credential is a big step and commitment. That is why we created the Fast Track to ICF Credential - to streamline the process and make it as convenient as possible.

Benefits of the Fast Track to ICF Credential include;

● FAST TRACK: Takes only 6 months to complete (other programs may take as long as 18 months).

● ROBUST, DISTANCE-BASED LEARNING: We use cutting-edge technology to create an in-person, interactive classroom experience while you participate remotely.

● TOP-NOTCH EDUCATION AND TRAINING: You get world-class instruction from expert coaches with experience in both coaching and teaching.

● FLEXIBLE SCHEDULE: We offer day and evening classes for your convenience, and new classes start throughout the year.

● AFFORDABLE: This program is priced to fit into your budget. Save $495 US / $595 CDN when you register for the package option. Don’t need the package option? You also have the choice of taking separate modules a la carte. We even have a payment plan.

Our next program (day classes) starts January 7. Click here to view the schedule

Testimonial: Coaching Out of the Box® gave me much more than what I expected. After the first couple sessions of FastTrack I was thinking, wow I've learned so much already and was really excited about what I would know by the end of the program. It didn't disappoint, I feel I'm a much better coach and understand coaching in a way that I never imagined I would. Excited about moving people forward with my new found understanding. - Brad W.

Become a Coaching Educator

Train the Trainer for 5/5/5 Coaching Skills Training Program™

ICF Core Competency Hours: 12

You've done the training, developed your coaching skills and now you are ready to leverage your expertise. But where do you go from here? If you want to expand your reach, add a new tool to your toolkit and a new source of revenue, this course may be just what you are looking for.

This course prepares you to become licensed to deliver the 5/5/5 Coaching Skills Training Program™. As you go through the course you will gain in-depth knowledge of advanced coaching skills and learn to use your skills in a new and expanded role.

Train the Trainer for 5/5/5 Coaching Skills Program™ – Starts February 5, 2019

Testimonial: I really enjoyed the small group training in the Train the Trainer Program. It was a safe space to get questions answered about presenting the 5/5/5 content to others. The teach backs were fun and gave everyone more confidence to get started training. – Carol H.

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1-888-4A-COACH (1-888-422-6224).

Moving Past the Biggest Challenges Faced by Coaches and Leaders

If you look at coaching and leadership challenges, the things that get in the way of moving towards one’s goals, there is a recurrent theme – FEAR. It could be the fear of change, fear of making a mistake, fear of being vulnerable, fear of looking bad/good, fear of success and more.

The good news – coaching is perfectly suited for helping one move past the fear and towards the goal. Even when the goal changes. Our role as coaches and leaders is to support the individual in moving towards their goal farther, faster, easier, better and quicker than they would have without us. That is why organizations and individuals are embracing the use of coaching. Not only has coaching been proven to produce results, it is fully customizable and adaptable to fit each individual and every circumstance. Honestly, no other tool can make that claim!

Fear as a challenge is quite broad so to bring this into focus I’ve broken it down into the top five fear related coaching challenges we’ve seen and tips for navigating through them.

1. Getting crystal clear as to what the focus and goal of the coaching is.You and your coachee need to be very clear about what the goal is and what success looks like. AND, very important, you need to check in to see if the goal has changed, as it often does. As a coachee begins the process of self-discovery it is not uncommon that their goal will shift. The adaptability of coaching is one of its strengths so don’t forget to check in often and modify the conversation as goals and objectives change. A good practice is to start the coaching conversation with a few questions about the goal and listening for clues that would indicate a goal shift. If you sense that there has been a change in the goal, pause, evaluate and make any necessary adjustments in the conversation. Don’t get caught up in pursuing a certain path when your coachee has moved to a different one. Use your questioning skills to always stay on top of where the coachee is. Remember that the coachee is in the lead and you, as their coach, must remain flexible and adaptable.
   
   Resource: Check out our 365 Coaching Questions Booklet to find ideas on questions to ask to make sure you know where your coachee stands on their goals and objectives.
   
   
2. Holding the coachee accountable. This one can be become unpleasant for some coaches, but it is absolutely critical. In fact, lack of accountability is often one of the biggest stumbling blocks for coachees. In many cases, the coachee already knows what they need to do to move forward but they just don’t take the actions. This is a BIG RED FLAG and it is imperative that you help the coachee uncover what is getting in the way. Sometimes just the mere fact that someone is holding them accountable is enough to move them forward. Often though fear is getting in the way. They know what needs to be done but they don’t take the steps because they fear something. They end up procrastinating, making excuses etc. You will need to help them navigate past the fear before the coachee can embrace accountability. Holding a coachee accountable is not just about setting actions and due dates. It is also about demonstrating that you believe in them and what they can do AND, if things are not moving forward, supporting them in finding out what is getting in the way. Unfortunately, the lack of accountability is all too common. Do not let this one slide!
   
   Resource: For examples on holding the coachee accountable, check out our Webinar: Live Coaching Sessions. You will also find helpful tools to uncover what is keeping coachees from following through on commitments in our PGFC Assessment Tool.
   
   
3. The Goal is TOO BIG/TOO SMALL. To have a productive and successful coaching relationship there must be a gap between where the coachee is and where they want to be. The gap is what will pull them forward. But not just any gap will do. Having the right size gap is important. If the gap is too big it can seem overwhelming and the coachee can become immobilized. If this is the case, break it down into smaller gaps that are more manageable and likely to produce quicker wins. If the gap is too small the coachee may lack motivation. In these cases, support your coachee in creating a goal that is big enough to mobilize and energize.
   
   Resource: For help on setting goals with your coachee, check out our PGFC Assessment Workbook. The workbook is designed for coaches and their clients to work through co-actively.
   
   
4. Energy draining vs Energizing. At the end of each coaching conversation you want your coachee to walk away energized and mobilized to move forward. If that is not happening, it is important to pause and evaluate why that is. Conversations that are more draining than energizing are often the result of the coachee and coach focusing too much on what is not working or did not work versus focusing on what did work and what will work going forward. In other words, focusing on the negative rather than the positive. Some coachees are extremely hard on themselves and will repeatedly shift the conversation to the negative. It is important that you, as the coach, do not go down that “failure” path with them. Instead, listen with empathy and acknowledge what they are saying. But then shift the conversation to the positive and support the coachee in staying there.
   
   Resource: For an example of what an energized coaching conversation looks like, view our webinar: Live Coaching Sessions.
   
   
5. Saying or making your coachee feel they are wrong! This one can be a little uncomfortable to mention but coaches, especially those who have or had the role of manager and consultant, can run up against this challenge. If you have been a manager or consultant you’ve played a very different role than that of a coach. Managers and consultants are paid to have the answers and tell their employees or clients what is best. Coaches, on the other hand, should never, ever say or make their coachee feel that they are wrong (even if you truly believe that they are). Doing so goes against the basic principle of coaching and will likely be detrimental to the relationship. Before you start the coaching conversation check to make sure you have removed your manager / consultant hat. Your role as a coach is to focus them forward on the positive; what now and what next can they do to make positive steps toward their goal.

Fear can creep in at many different points and take on many different shapes and forms. Even though people like to give a strong façade, underneath it all most coachees (and coaches too) FEAR something that is preventing them from moving forward. Yep, it is scary to take on a new project/goal/doing something they have ever done before etc. But this is our opportunity as coaches to utilize our unique skills to be there by our coachees side supporting, cajoling, challenging and encouraging to move them past the fear and towards the goal. We are all unique and sensitive human beings. Masterful coaches have the ability to develop strong empathy and compassion while still holding people accountable. Just imagine. What if EVERYONE had coaching skills?

We are here to support you when it comes to coaching challenges. We offer webinars, coaching guides and courses. View our resources and check out our calendar of events. If you have questions, connect with our Program Advisor who is ready to help.

The Business of Coaching

Building a thriving coaching business takes more than just great coaching skills. You also must know how to build a business. For many, this is the hardest part of going out on your own. If you are starting your own coaching business, check out our resources just for you.

Guides

Guide to Starting Your Coaching Business

Guide to Making it as a Coach

Webinars

(visit the webinars page, then scroll down to find the title)

Strategies and Tips for Building a Successful Coaching Business

The Business of Coaching: Overcoming the Biggest Challenges

Making it as a Coach: Strategies for Success

Resources Beyond COTBx

ICF’s Business Development Series (BDS) designed to help you build, sustain and expand a successful coaching business. Now it is available through OnDemand access!

Infusionsoft Business Success Blog

Education and Training Courses

Build Core Competencies

Coaching Fundamentals™

ICF Core Competency Hours: 15

Coaching is catching on. More and more people are turning to coaching because coaching produces results. The performance of individuals, teams and organizations are being transformed when coaching skills are developed, used and become part of the culture. If you are intrigued by what is happening with coaching and want to learn core coaching skills, this fundamentals class is for you.

This is a hands-on class that includes practical techniques for trust building, focused listening, evocative questioning, planning and goal setting. The course includes practice sessions that are reviewed by a professional coach who provides feedback on coaching skills and comprehension of the competencies. You will learn the skills and gain the confidence needed to use them. Click on the course name to learn more and register.

Coaching Fundamentals™ - Starts December 4

Testimonial: Coaching Fundamentals was essential to my growth as a human resources professional. I feel like I have the tools I need to have powerful conversations with the people I work with.

5/5/5 Coaching Skills Training Program™

ICF Core Competency Hours: 12

If your goals include starting a coaching business or using coaching to lead within an organization, you won't want to miss our 5/5/5 Coaching Skills Training Program™.

During this course participants learn advanced questioning, multidimensional listening and framing skills. Through the simple, intuitive and highly transferable 5/5/5 Coaching Skills™ framework, participants acquire tools to ask powerful questions, listen in a new way, build trust and provide productive feedback. These skills help coaches guide their coachees to new insights, discoveries and breakthroughs that will help them become self-reliant problem solvers and goal achievers. Join over 18,000 participants who have gone through this transformational program. Click on the title below to learn more and register.

5/5/5 Coaching Skills Training Program™ - Starts November 1

Testimonial: I got so much more from the 5/5/5 Coaching Skills Training Program than expected. I thought it would be more theoretical about the basics of coaching, but we delved right into the depth of the most important skills and used them together in a practical way. I gained so much confidence in a short period of time through role playing and receiving feedback from my peers. This was a very inspiring course that has given me new life skills. – Robin R.

Advance Your Skills

Advanced Coaching Skills Practicum

ICF Core Competency Hours: 12

Are you looking to enhance your coaching skills? Take your coaching to the next level? Or maybe you are looking for tools to help you with your biggest coaching challenges. If any of these apply, check out our Advanced Coaching Skills Practicum.

Participants of this program will refine their coaching skills by coaching others and hearing others coach in a virtual classroom overseen and critiqued by an ICF certified professional coach. The environment fosters real-time learning for those doing the coaching and for those observing. Participants in this course;

• Gain confidence in their ability to coach
• Hear a variety of styles and methods by hearing others coach
• Get immediate feedback on their coaching and use of the core coaching skills by an ICF Certified Coach
• Are challenged to coach at a whole new and higher level in a fun and supportive way
• Receive coaching tips, techniques and demonstrations from an ICF Certified Coach

Click on the course title to learn more and register.

Advanced Coaching Skills Practicum - Starts January 31, 2019

Testimonial: Advanced Coaching Skills Practicum is an action-packed class where you learn coaching by coaching. The facilitator creates a unique and supportive environment where everyone's improve their coaching skills receiving constructive feedback. ACSP gives you the confidence needed to start building the coaching hours for certification. – Caroline P.

Personal Groundwork for Coaching™

ICF Core Competency Hours: 20

Are you looking to enhance your coaching skills or take your coaching to the next level? Or maybe you need to obtain CCE credits to renew your ICF credential or add to your coach specific training hours. If any of these apply, check out our Personal Groundwork for Coaching™.

In this course you will learn advanced coaching skills to help highlight and explore areas that are often at the source of where a coachee becomes stuck, self-defeating or demotivated. You will also learn how to use the accompanying Personal Groundwork for Coaching Assessment™ Workbook, a widely-used tool to help coaches move their clients past daily symptoms and into the deeper source of what is getting in their way and preventing them from reaching their goals.

This is a hands-on class. Each week you will work (outside of the classroom) with a different learning partner to coach one another around the concepts covered in the class. Click on the course name to learn more and register.

Personal Groundwork for Coaching™ - starts January 8, 2019

Testimonial: This program exceeded my expectations! I walked away with a toolbox of coaching strategies and personally made changes and grew in my own life. It was excellent. - Karen R.

Ace the ICF CKA Exam

ICF Coach Knowledge Assessment Prep Class

ICF Core Competency Hours: 9

This course is designed to prepare coaches for the ICF Coach Knowledge Assessment exam which must be successfully completed prior to receiving the International Coach Federation (ICF) ACC Credential.

Take the Fast Track to Your ICF Credential

Fast Track to ICF Credential

Fulfils the educational requirements for obtaining the ICF ACC credential

Develop the skills and set yourself apart by jumping on the Fast Track. Coaching is becoming more and more competitive and yet many coaches have no credential and minimal training. One of the best ways to set yourself apart is to complete the training and earn a coaching credential.

But pursuing your ICF Credential is a big step and commitment. That is why we created the Fast Track to ICF Credential - to streamline the process and make it as convenient as possible.

Benefits of the Fast Track to ICF Credential include;

● FAST TRACK: Takes only 6 months to complete (other programs may take as long as 18 months).

● ROBUST, DISTANCE-BASED LEARNING: We use cutting-edge technology to create an in-person, interactive classroom experience while you participate remotely.

● TOP-NOTCH EDUCATION AND TRAINING: You get world-class instruction from expert coaches with experience in both coaching and teaching.

● FLEXIBLE SCHEDULE: We offer day and evening classes for your convenience, and new classes start throughout the year.

● AFFORDABLE: This program is priced to fit into your budget. Save $495 US / $595 CDN when you register for the package option. Don’t need the package option? You also have the choice of taking separate modules a la carte. We even have a payment plan.

Our next program (evening classes) starts November 1. Click here to view the schedule

Testimonial: Coaching Out of the Box® gave me much more than what I expected. After the first couple sessions of FastTrack I was thinking, wow I've learned so much already and was really excited about what I would know by the end of the program. It didn't disappoint, I feel I'm a much better coach and understand coaching in a way that I never imagined I would. Excited about moving people forward with my new found understanding. - Brad W.

Become a Coaching Educator

Train the Trainer for 5/5/5 Coaching Skills Training Program™

ICF Core Competency Hours: 12

You've done the training, developed your coaching skills and now you are ready to leverage your expertise. But where do you go from here? If you want to expand your reach, add a new tool to your toolkit and a new source of revenue, this course may be just what you are looking for.

This course prepares you to become licensed to deliver the 5/5/5 Coaching Skills Training Program™. As you go through the course you will gain in-depth knowledge of advanced coaching skills and learn to use your skills in a new and expanded role.

Train the Trainer for 5/5/5 Coaching Skills Program™ – Starts February 5, 2019

Testimonial: I really enjoyed the small group training in the Train the Trainer Program. It was a safe space to get questions answered about presenting the 5/5/5 content to others. The teach backs were fun and gave everyone more confidence to get started training. – Carol H.

Coaching Resources

We offer many resources on a wide variety of topics to support coaches at all levels. On our website, you can find blog articles, educational videos, webinar recordings and more under Coaching Resources. We are continually updating this section so check back often.

To make it easier to find what you are looking for we’ve organized the most popular resources by topic. G = Guide and W = Webinar.

Certification

• Guide to Coach Certification (G)
• Are all certification programs created equal? (W)
• Coach Certification A-Z (W)
• Coaching Certification (W)

The Business of Coaching

• Guide to Starting Your Coaching Business (G)
• Guide to Making It as a Coach (G)
• Strategies and Tips for Building a Successful Coaching Business (W)
• The Business of Coaching: Overcoming the Biggest Challenges (W)
• Making it as a Coach: Strategies for Success (W)

Coaching Skills

• Personal Groundwork for Coaching™ Assessment (G)
• Personal Groundwork for Coaching™ Workbook
• 365 Coaching Questions Booklet
• Live Coaching Demos: Unscripted, Unrehearsed, Real (W)
• Sharpen your Listening and Questioning Skills (W)
• Coaching Breakthroughs - Diving Deeper to Move Forward (W)
• The 5/5/5 Live Coaching Demonstrations (W)
• The 5/5/5 Live Coaching Demonstrations Part 2 (W)

Leveraging your Coaching Skills

• Guide to Becoming a Coaching Educator (G)
• Leverage Your Coaching Skills: Add Coaching Educator to your Toolkit (W)
• Exploring the Many Paths in Coaching (W)

Coaching in Healthcare

• Determining the Impact of a Coaching Skills Development Program in the Healthcare Setting (G)
• Bringing Coaching into Healthcare: How 3 Organizations Using 3 Different Approaches Achieved Powerful Results (G)
• Bringing Coaching to Healthcare (W)
• Coaching in the Healthcare Setting (W)
• Coaching In Healthcare (W)

Coaching in Organizations

• Coaching Case Study: Using Coaching to Transform Individuals, Teams and Organizations(G)
• How to bring Coaching Successfully to your Organization (W)
• Using A Coach Approach To Leadership (W)
• Coaching for Sustainable Change (W)
• Building A Coaching Culture - Where To Start? (W)

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Learn by Observation

Build coaching skills and confidence by observing others

One of the things we hear frequently is that new and growing coaches would like more opportunities to see how different coaches approach different coaching situations. In other words, they would like more opportunities for the powerful tool of observational learning. If you aren’t sure this tool can work for you, consider the following points.

Observational learning has been around for a long time, but it wasn’t until recently that experts / scholars really started paying attention to it to better understand what observational learning is and how it works. Albert Bandura, a Canadian-born psychologist, gets credit for developing and popularizing Observational Learning Theory. His new idea - learning could occur through the simple processes of observing someone else's activity. According to Bandura, learning can occur by watching others and then modeling what they do or say. There are specific steps in the process of modeling that must be followed if learning is to be successful. These steps include;

• Attention
• Retention
• Reproduction
• Motivation

These four steps used in sequence allow us to acquire the ability to engage in new behaviors or apply new skills simply through observation. Here is a little more about each step;

1. Attention -- attention is critical to making sure you catch the details
2. Retention -- the individual remembers what was noticed
3. Reproduction -- the individual produces an action that is a copy of what was noticed
4. Motivation -- the environment delivers a consequence that changes the probability the behavior will be emitted again

Appling this to learn a new coaching skill might look something like this;

• Observer listens and watches coaches in action. The observer pays attention by listening to what is said by the coach and coachee and watching non-verbal communication that occurs between the two.

• Observer uses proven methods to remember what was observed. This could be note taking, recording the communication and a feedback session where key points are discussed, dissected and reinforced.

• Observer uses what was learned in the observed coaching session. This is key. The sooner the skill is used the better as we have the “forgetting curve” working against us. Work done by German psychologist Herman Ebbinghaus provides an actual mathematical representation of the exponential rate at which we lose a memory “if no attempt is made to retain it”. Roughly 70% of a memory is lost within the first 24 hours!

• Observer receives feedback on the applied skill. Either positive or negative feedback is received, and the observer adjusts accordingly.

The tool of observation is powerful and often helps coaches get to an aha moment when it comes to tackling coaching challenges. When observing others coach, they can see the skills used and start to really 'get' the power of coaching.

You’ll have the opportunity to try out observational learning during our next webinar. We will have live coaching sessions with real coaches and real situations for you to observe. This will be a unique observational learning opportunity and a lot of fun in the process.

Attend the webinar to start the observational learning process (Attention and Retention), then go out immediately and practice what you observed to complete the process (Reproduce and Motivate) and ingrain the skills.

Read more about the webinar and register here.

Educational Webinars

The Business of Coaching

Building a thriving coaching business takes more than just great coaching skills. You also must know how to build a business. For many, this is the hardest part of going out on your own. If you are starting your own coaching business, check out our resources just for you.

Guides

Guide to Starting Your Coaching Business

Guide to Making it as a Coach

Webinars

(visit the webinars page, then scroll down to find the title)

Strategies and Tips for Building a Successful Coaching Business

The Business of Coaching: Overcoming the Biggest Challenges

Making it as a Coach: Strategies for Success

Resources Beyond COTBx

ICF’s Business Development Series (BDS) designed to help you build, sustain and expand a successful coaching business. Now it is available through OnDemand access!

Infusionsoft Business Success Blog

Education and Training Courses

Build Core Competencies

5/5/5 Coaching Skills Training Program™
ICF Core Competency Hours: 12

If your goals include starting a coaching business or using coaching to lead within an organization, you won't want to miss our 5/5/5 Coaching Skills Training Program™.

During this course participants learn questioning, listening and framing skills. These skills help coaches guide their coachees to new insights, discoveries and breakthroughs that will help them become self-reliant problem solvers and goal achievers. This course provides in-depth learning of core coaching competencies including multiple practice and feedback sessions. Join over 18,000 participants who have gone through this transformational program. Click on the title below to learn more and register.

5/5/5 Coaching Skills Training Program™ - Starts September 25

Coaching Fundamentals™
ICF Core Competency Hours: 15

Coaching is catching on. More and more people are turning to coaching because coaching produces results. The performance of individuals, teams and organizations are being transformed when coaching skills are developed, used and become part of the culture. If you are intrigued by what is happening with coaching and want to learn core coaching skills, this fundamentals class is for you.

This is a hands-on class that includes practical techniques for trust building, focused listening, evocative questioning, planning and goal setting. The course includes practice sessions that are reviewed by a professional coach who provides feedback on coaching skills and comprehension of the competencies. You will learn the skills and gain the confidence needed to use them. Click on the course name to learn more and register.

Coaching Fundamentals™ - Starts October 11

Advance Your Skills

Personal Groundwork for Coaching™
ICF Core Competency Hours: 20

Are you looking to enhance your coaching skills or take your coaching to the next level? Or maybe you need to obtain CCE credits to renew your ICF credential or add to your coach specific training hours. If any of these apply, check out our Personal Groundwork for Coaching™.

In this course you will learn advanced coaching skills to help highlight and explore areas that are often at the source of where a coachee becomes stuck, self-defeating or demotivated. You will also learn how to use the accompanying Personal Groundwork for Coaching Assessment™ Workbook, a widely-used tool to help coaches move their clients past daily symptoms and into the deeper source of what is getting in their way and preventing them from reaching their goals.

This is a hands-on class. Each week you will work (outside of the classroom) with a different learning partner to coach one another around the concepts covered in the class. Click on the course name to learn more and register.

Personal Groundwork for Coaching™ - starts September 10

Ace the ICF CKA Exam

ICF Coach Knowledge Assessment Prep Class
ICF Core Competency Hours: 9

This course is designed to prepare coaches for the ICF Coach Knowledge Assessment exam which must be successfully completed prior to receiving the International Coach Federation (ICF) ACC Credential.

The course covers ICF Core Competencies and Ethics and Standards plus test taking strategies. This prep class will present several questions each week that mimic the multiple-choice questions you will be asked to answer in the CKA exam. Click the course link below to learn more and register.

ICF CKA Prep Class – Starts September 17

Take the Fast Track to Your ICF Credential

Fast Track to ICF Credential
Fulfils the educational requirements for obtaining the ICF ACC credential

Develop the skills and set yourself apart by jumping on the Fast Track. Coaching is becoming more and more competitive and yet many coaches have no credential and minimal training. One of the best ways to set yourself apart is to complete the training and earn a coaching credential.

But pursuing your ICF Credential is a big step and commitment. That is why we created the Fast Track to ICF Credential - to streamline the process and make it as convenient as possible.

Benefits of the Fast Track to ICF Credential include;

● FAST TRACK: Takes only 6 months to complete (other programs may take as long as 18 months).

● ROBUST, DISTANCE-BASED LEARNING: We use cutting-edge technology to create an in-person, interactive classroom experience while you participate remotely.

● TOP-NOTCH EDUCATION AND TRAINING: You get world-class instruction from expert coaches with experience in both coaching and teaching.

● FLEXIBLE SCHEDULE: We offer day and evening classes for your convenience, and new classes start throughout the year.

● AFFORDABLE: This program is priced to fit into your budget. Save $495 US / $595 CDN when you register for the package option. Don’t need the package option? You also have the choice of taking separate modules a la carte. We even have a payment plan.

Our next program (day classes) starts September 25. Click here to view the schedule

Become a Coaching Educator

Train the Trainer for 5/5/5 Coaching Skills Training Program™
ICF Core Competency Hours: 12

You've done the training, developed your coaching skills and now you are ready to leverage your expertise. But where do you go from here? If you want to expand your reach, add a new tool to your toolkit and a new source of revenue, this course may be just what you are looking for.

This course prepares you to become licensed to deliver the 5/5/5 Coaching Skills Training Program™. As you go through the course you will gain in-depth knowledge of advanced coaching skills and learn to use your skills in a new and expanded role.

Train the Trainer for 5/5/5 Coaching Skills Program™ – Starts October 2

Coaching Resources

We offer many resources on a wide variety of topics to support coaches at all levels. On our website, you can find blog articles, educational videos, webinar recordings and more under Coaching Resources. We are continually updating this section so check back often.

To make it easier to find what you are looking for we’ve organized the most popular resources by topic. G = Guide and W = Webinar.

Certification

• Guide to Coach Certification (G)
• Are all certification programs created equal? (W)
• Coach Certification A-Z (W)
• Coaching Certification (W)

The Business of Coaching

• Guide to Starting Your Coaching Business (G)
• Guide to Making It as a Coach (G)
• Strategies and Tips for Building a Successful Coaching Business (W)
• The Business of Coaching: Overcoming the Biggest Challenges (W)
• Making it as a Coach: Strategies for Success (W)

Coaching Skills

• Personal Groundwork for Coaching™ Assessment (G)
• Personal Groundwork for Coaching™ Workbook
• 365 Coaching Questions Booklet
• Live Coaching Demos: Unscripted, Unrehearsed, Real (W)
• Sharpen your Listening and Questioning Skills (W)
• Coaching Breakthroughs - Diving Deeper to Move Forward (W)
• The 5/5/5 Live Coaching Demonstrations (W)
• The 5/5/5 Live Coaching Demonstrations Part 2 (W)

Leveraging your Coaching Skills

• Guide to Becoming a Coaching Educator (G)
• Leverage Your Coaching Skills: Add Coaching Educator to your Toolkit (W)
• Exploring the Many Paths in Coaching (W)

Coaching in Healthcare

• Determining the Impact of a Coaching Skills Development Program in the Healthcare Setting (G)
• Bringing Coaching into Healthcare: How 3 Organizations Using 3 Different Approaches Achieved Powerful Results (G)
• Bringing Coaching to Healthcare (W)
• Coaching in the Healthcare Setting (W)
• Coaching in Healthcare (W)

Coaching in Organizations

• Coaching Case Study: Using Coaching to Transform Individuals, Teams and Organizations(G)
• How to bring Coaching Successfully to your Organization (W)
• Using A Coach Approach to Leadership (W)
• Coaching for Sustainable Change (W)
• Building A Coaching Culture - Where to Start? (W)

HOME | ABOUT US | COACHING EDUCATION PROGRAMS | CONTACT

We would love to connect with you! Reach out to our team here or call Toll Free, 
1-888-4A-COACH (1-888-422-6224).

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