Module 1
Setting the scene for the people coaching certification journey
- Getting participants and facilitators all know each other
- General coaching certification vision and goals
- Program structure with learning objectives and coaching philosophy
- Getting the most suitable mindset for being coached during the program
Assessing the effects and purpose of coaching
- Contracting on a common framework for a safe learning space
- From ripple effect to major life transitions: real cases of coaching clients
- Understanding the impact and ultimate purpose of a coaching approach
Coaching within the professional help sector
- Differentiating coaching from training, mentoring and supervision
- Understanding the limits of coaching and competence boundaries
- Myths and fundamental assumptions about coaching
Designing a credible Coaching relationship
- Identifying roles and responsibilities in coaching
- Shaping steps within a coaching process
- Understanding the ICF 11 core competences
Building a powerful growing partnership
- Setting the foundations of trust
- Defining explicit fair boundaries
- Promoting great practices to inspire, raise trust and intimacy
Setting the foundations of empathy
- Assessing the different qualities of listening
- Experiencing the power and danger of sympathy
- Practicing, practicing, practicing several listening types
Getting back into resourcefulness
- Experiencing mindfulness centering
- Identifying ways to nurture self-resourcefulness
- Understanding how grounding impacts both coach and client
Using a coaching model
- Understanding the GROW model
- Practicing the GROW model
- Identifying most suitable opportunities to use this coaching model
Customizing a coaching model
- Expanding the GROW model
- Practicing coaching with a self-adapted version of a coaching model
- Identifying what flexibility and creativity bring to coaching
Suspending judgment
- Experiencing emotional contagion
- Understanding how judgment can impend empathy
- Practice suspending judgment
Sharpening questioning
- Choosing intention
- Experiencing mindful silence, mindful questioning
- Identifying types of questions to avoid
Crafting powerful questions
- Enhancing the formulation of questions
- Shaping questions for 20 different purposes
- Creating a repertoire of powerful questions
Giving Feedback
- Discerning Facts from Interpretations
- Giving feedback with a coaching model
- Demonstrating feedback in practice
Validating
- Understanding the benefits of validation in coaching
- Discovering the typical validation process
- Practicing validation among participants
Going beyond the first coaching session
- Discovering a holistic coaching model
- Identifying the most typical steps of a whole coaching process
Discovering Values & Purpose
- Discovering values through past experiences
- Discovering values through creative approach
Dealing with emotions
- Understanding the biological nature of emotions
- Discovering a coaching model specific to emotion handling
- Practicing the coaching model on handling anger and frustration
Choosing the coaching focus
- Shaping SMART Goals to drive motivation
- Setting the coaching agreement
- Choosing the coaching focus
Getting a holistic baseline
- Covering several dimensions to identify influential factors
- Practicing using the wheel of life
- Identifying most suitable opportunities to pick this coaching tool
Identifying the gaps and the needs
- Identifying gaps and development opportunities
- Identifying the needs and linking to the Maslow pyramid
- Practicing coaching using the wheel of work
Module 2
Discovery Session Methodology
- Building a safe framework
- Designing a coaching agreement
- Defining a coaching objective
Practicing Discovery Session for Coaching
While we will review coaching fundamentals when giving feedback, we will focus on enhancing the specific coaching skills you need to improve most. This is a very tailor-based approach mostly build around your own areas of development.
Mentoring on coaching sessions with peers and clients
As you have practiced between Module 1 and 2, we stay at your side to answer all your questions, share best practices and help you staying on track while coaching outside the training arena.
First Coaching Session Methodology
- Grounding both Coach and Client
- Contracting on a specific coaching objective
- Choosing a suitable coaching model
Practicing First Coaching Session for Coaching
Observed with written feedback and review of the most relevant developmental areas
Follow-up Coaching Session Methodology
- Grounding both Coach and Client
- Following-up on the coaching action plan
- Choosing a suitable feedback and validation coaching model
Practicing Follow-up Coaching Session for Coaching
Observed with written feedback and review of the most relevant developmental areas
Module 3
Reviewing Values & Purpose
- Revisiting values through tests and list
- Finding the purpose beyond values
Reviewing Handling Emotions
Reviewing Choosing the coaching focus
- Deriving a roadmap from life purpose
- Moving forward by setting SMART goals
Reviewing Getting a holistic baseline
Reviewing Identifying the gaps and the needs
Exploring options & Discovering potential
- Checking the alignment with the coaching agenda
- Unleashing the Client’s creativity
- Practicing coaching using creativity technique
- Enhancing client’s creativity with creative tools
- Practicing coaching deeper thanks to creativity boost
Handling obstacles and interferences
- Identifying the obstacles
- Building alternatives to raise confidence
- Anchoring the Coach’s confidence in human potential
Transforming the belief system
- Understanding the belief system
- Transforming limiting beliefs into supportive beliefs
- Identifying own beliefs on a specific theme, like money
- Practicing coaching on transforming beliefs
Planning and way forward
- Revisiting the coaching plan
- Designing observable actions
- Building an accountability framework
Following-up with the Coachee
- Acknowledging the change
- Leveraging on Success
- Practicing follow-up coaching
- Handling stagnation
- Assessing significance and recurrence
- Dancing in the moment
Creating sustainability and discernment
- Understanding sustainability process in coaching
- Understanding discernment in coaching
- Practicing asking and receiving feedback on coaching
Additional coaching technique
- Getting familiar with the scaling technique
- Practicing coaching with scaling
Meeting ethical guidelines and professional standards
- Getting familiar with the ICF Code of Ethics
- Applying the ICF Code of Ethics
Certification Exam
- Practicing complete observed coaching session
- Receiving feedback and assessment
Advanced listening skills
- Getting rid of listening biases
- Listening to non-verbal clues, like we do while listening to music
- Meta-listening: patterns, deletions, omissions, contradictions
Critical review of useful tools in coaching
- Understanding the use and the limits of each coaching model
- Understanding how to use specific tools for coaching
- Designing the first steps of a coaching relationship
Adhering to ethics
- Understanding the need and benefits of complying with a Code of Ethics
- Reviewing coaching cases with ethical issues & applying the ICF Code of Ethics
- Appreciating the need for continuous learning, mentoring and supervision