Coaching Training “Coaching Essentials” (Level 1 Part 1)

Who is it for?

• For anyone who is in a leadership role at any level of a business or not for profit organization or any institution
• For anyone who would like to become a professional coach
• For anyone who wants to improve their ability to communicate, build effective mutually rewarding relationships, and impact
• For anyone who is committed to learning and developing during this thorough coaching training program

Content and learning objectives

This training gives you a profound understanding of coaching and it builds a strong foundation for your coaching practice, whether you are an external coach, or an internal coach in an organization, or a leader, who believes in the power of coaching style leadership.

During the training program, you will learn:

• Understanding the Essence of Coaching: real impact of coaching on individuals and organizations;
• Appropriate Application of Coaching: determining when and how to apply coaching techniques;
• Role Clarification: distinguishing the coaching role from other personal and professional roles;
• Integration of Coaching Role: harmonizing the coach role with other life roles
• Adopting the Coaching Mindset: cognitive frameworks and thinking patterns conducive to effective coaching;
• Behavioral Protocols: identifying and cultivating effective behaviors in coaching;
• Navigating the Coaching Process: managing the coaching process to achieve desired outcomes;
• Mastering ICF Core Competencies: application of ICF core competencies in coaching conversations;
• Building Resonant Coaching Relationships: strategies for cultivating trust and rapport with clients;
• Effective Stakeholder Management: techniques for managing multiple stakeholders in a coaching engagement;
• Implementing Coaching in Organizations: structural and cultural considerations for embedding a coaching culture;
• Goal Setting and Outcome Visualization: Collaborative goal-setting and outcome visualization strategies;
• Enhancing Client Progress: monitoring and enhancing client progress towards achieving goals;
• Cultivating Trust and Cultural Sensitivity: techniques for creating a safe and inclusive coaching environment;
• Maintaining Presence and Focused Attention: practices for ensuring quality attention and presence during coaching engagements;
• Active Listening and Powerful Questioning: techniques for active listening and generating insightful questions;
• Facilitating Advanced Learning and Awareness: Enabling double and triple-loop learning for deeper awareness and lasting change;
• Skill, Mindset, and Personal Growth Facilitation: strategies for facilitating development in skills, mindset, and personal growth;
• Upholding Professionalism and Ethical Standards: understanding and adhering to ethical guidelines and professional standards;
• Exploration of Coaching Tools and Models: hands-on practice with various coaching tools and models and much more.

By the end of our training programs, all participants become able to naturally apply all the knowledge, skills, and new philosophy in their formal and informal daily interactions.

Benefits

Meaningful conversations lead to greater awareness of self and others, which in turn leads to having a greater impact on your world. At the heart of effective coaching and training are the words that are exchanged, the insights that accompany them, and the empowerment that follows them.

During the last few years, most organizations have realized that formal and informal coaching is not anymore, a luxury, but a necessity. Coaching has become one of the most effective ways of leadership development, high-performing team building, collaboration, and professional development because the application of a coaching approach improves:

• the quality of communication, employee engagement and accountability;
• team performance; individual and collective awareness;
• leadership intelligence and leadership competencies;
• creativity, innovation, and performance;
• competency development, onboarding, organizational learning;
• the general climate and culture of the organization;
• the quality of feedback and employee development
• the competitive advantage of the company;
• the attractiveness of the company for talents, etc.

Our philosophy of training

In our coaching programs, we develop coaches, instead of teaching about coaching. We create an environment, where we blend theory, practice, reflections, and thought-provoking discussion.

We believe that real learning is a multi-tier phenomenon. It creates new knowledge and understanding. It develops new skills, abilities, behaviors and habits, new attitudes, and mental models. It expands one’s sense-making capabilities by deconstructing and integrating the old and the new.

Therefore, we use a certain amount of professional theory, but our main approach is to provide an experiential learning environment in which we encourage our participants to explore ideas and insights. The context we provide allows our participants to grasp and acknowledge the progress they are making as it happens. We go deep, yet at the same time, we employ a playfulness and lightness of touch. We offer quality, cutting-edge knowledge drawn from in-depth research: this provides the academic ballast for the experiential exploration that animates the room.

Participants are encouraged to go beyond their comfort zones, support, and respect each other, and enjoy themselves. We invite them to develop their emotional intelligence, interpersonal skills, and capabilities of self-leadership and leading others.

Our guidelines of professional training:

• Our training programs are accredited by ICF. We have chosen to apply for ICF accreditation because we believe that ICF provides the best standards in the coaching industry. Therefore, in the creation of our curriculum and the delivery of the training we adhere to these professional and ethical standards.
• We work with highly qualified faculty members, who are thoroughly trained in the principles and methodologies of adult development.
• During our training programs, we provide individual attention and support to each participant in many forms (observations, mentoring, ongoing individual check-in conversations, etc.). We ensure that each participant is aware at any time of their progress. Based on the ICF competencies and standards we highlight the strong competencies to build confidence and provide recommendations for development. Our evaluations are always evidence-based and objective and presented in a respectful, warm, encouraging style.
• While we create a light, warm, friendly, and safe atmosphere, we have rigorous requirements to ensure an ethical and effective learning process.

While we follow a standardized professional process, during the training program we attend to the needs of each individual and each group. We focus on supporting the learning, not on the delivery. Therefore, we use our creativity to find the best way of making something understood.

How is the ICF Level 1 training structured?

The program has two main parts:

• Part 1 consists of a 12-day training program called Coaching Essentials
• Part 2 consists of min. 10 hours of group and individual mentor coaching and a final ACC-level performance evaluation exam.

Part 1 is for those participants who want to benefit from the coaching knowledge and skills, but do not want to pursue a career in professional coaching. They will get a certificate of attendance after the 12-day program.

Part 1 + Part 2 is for those participants, who want to pursue a career in professional coaching or for those who want to get an international credential from the International Coaching Federation. After a successful exam, they will get a Level 1 certificate, testifying that they have graduated from an internationally accredited program and have met the global professional standards of an Associated Certified Coach credential (ACC). With this certificate, they will be able to apply for an ACC credential at the International Coaching Federation.

Part 2 is for those participants, who want to pursue a career in professional coaching or for those who want to get an international credential from the International Coaching Federation and who have previously completed the Coaching Essential 12-day training (or an equivalent training – in that case please contact us and inquire about the possibility of credit transfer).

After a successful exam, they will get a Level 1 certificate, testifying that they have graduated from an internationally accredited program and have met the global professional standards of an Associated Certified Coach credential (ACC). With this certificate, they will be able to apply for an ACC credential at the International Coaching Federation.

Requirements

To receive a Certificate of Graduation from Coaching Essentials Part 1 the participants need to have:

• attended 80% of the training days as well as
• completed the hours of peer coaching and
• submitted the final essay.

To receive a Level 1 Training Certificate, which makes the participants eligible for applying for the ICF ACC credential they need to have:

• attended 80% of the 12 training days
• completed the hours of peer coaching
• submitted the final essay
• attended 10 hours of mentor coaching
• passed the ACC level performance evaluation exam.

As mentioned above the 12-days training program is the first part of the ICF accredited Level 1 training.

Registration

Before the registration, we have a 60-90 min conversation with each potential participant to ensure that there is a perfect match between the needs of our participants and our offering.

Please contact: office@lconglobal.com
+370 682 11414