COURSE OVERVIEW:

Coaching is a popular and rewarding career choice and an increasingly sought-after profession. The coaching industry has seen huge growth in the past decade and, for ten years running, it’s been the second fastest growing industry in the world (beaten only by IT). So if you’re looking to become self-employed or even start your own business, now is a better time than ever to learn how to become a coach.

Coaches work with individuals or businesses to help their clients improve their performance in a specific area. The focus is on helping the client to learn; not merely teaching them. A coach can specialise in anything from life to career coaching, or more niche areas such as leadership coaching.

There is a clear distinction between coaching, mentoring, managing and therapy. In brief, mentoring is about passing on specific skills and experiences so that the person being mentored can learn from this knowledge. Managing is about directing and ‘telling’ and therapy is about looking backwards and understanding the ‘why’ in order to be able to move forward.

Coaching enhances one's ability to learn, make changes, and achieve desired goals. It is a thought-provoking and creative process that enables people to make conscious decisions and empowers them to become leaders in their own lives. Great coaches don’t celebrate what their clients think they might do or hope to do at some point in the future. They celebrate what they’re doing right now.

Coaching is a tremendous discipline that has the potential to help people become high performers. It can be exactly what organisations are looking for in their leadership and high potentials. As great as the potential of coaching is, years of experience have shown the predominant traditional model of coaching being used does not work in the high-stakes, fast-paced, time-sensitive world of international business. Coaching, all too often, is used as a rescue model. When an organisation has an employee who is underperforming and termination is the likely next step, a coach is brought in to try to rescue the employee as a last step.

Ultimately, in the workplace, it is about increasing productivity and effectiveness. Whether it is directly, for example by developing influencing skills and strategic capability or indirectly through improved interpersonal relationships with employees or clients.

Coaching is a varied and rewarding career and can strengthen your personal and professional relationships, as well as your mental wellbeing. If you’re looking for the flexibility to work where and when you want and the potential to expand your network and set your own hourly rate, coaching is an ideal career choice.

In this course you’ll explore what coaching is, how you get started and what you need to become a successful coach to make a difference in others lives.

The first part of this course starts by discussing what coaching is and isn’t, also examines the distinctions between coaches, consultants and advisors. Then looks at the factors and some basic decisions you have to make before entering into the world of coaching. Then explores the pros and cons of being an internal or external coach. Then explains how to have more impact by bringing a coach approach to your present organisation. Then explores the steps to transitioning and bridging your life into a coaching career.

The second part starts by discussing the business of coaching and what you need to run a successful coaching business. Then helps determine if you’re cut out to be a solopreneur (A solopreneur is a sole practitioner with an entrepreneurial spirit). Then discusses how to have a good framework within which your business (and you) can thrive. Then examines the nuts and bolts of what you have to consider for your coaching business. Finally, discusses the key points to being a successful internal or external coach.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

By the end of this course, you will be able to understand:

• What coaching is and what it isn’t?
• How coaching is all about the client?
• Why coaching should be relevant?
• How coaching should be flexible?
• How coaching is money, time, and energy well spent?
• Why coaching focuses the client?
• How coaching creates sustainable change?
• How coaching enables people to declare what they want for their future?
• Why coaching is powerful?
• How coaching engages people in and stimulates provocative conversations?
• How coaching reveals people to themselves?
• How coaching elicits greatness in others?
• How coaching expands people’s “best”?
• How coaching is driven and stimulated by curiosity?
• How coaching recognises perfection in every situation?
• How coaching helps clients discern what they have to focus on in the moment?
• How coaching is communication at its best?
• The financial responsibility and reality to work as a coach?
• The variables for you to work as a coach?
• Why do you want to coach?
• How much and how hard do you want to be working as a coach?
• The steps to transitioning and bridging your life into a coaching career
• How to develop yourself?
• How to develop your unique identity?
• How to develop relationships within every aspect of your life?
• The importance of networks in the coaching business
• The legalities of the coaching business
• The location of the coaching business
• The importance of hiring a virtual assistant
• The importance of getting financial advice for your coaching business
• The importance of contracts in the coaching business
• The importance of continuous learning for being a coach
• Marketing your coaching business
• How to be a successful coach?
• How to work from the perspective of head, heart and gut?
• How to figure out what matters most for the client?
• Why ask your clients to give you feedback?
• How to give value so clients feel coached all the time, even when they’re not being coached?
• Why remind your clients that coaching works in multiple areas of their life?
• Why revisit the coaching relationship dynamics and often?

COURSE DURATION:

The typical duration of this course is approximately 2-3 hours to complete. Your enrolment is Valid for 12 Months. Start anytime and study at your own pace.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS:

You must have access to a computer or any mobile device with Adobe Acrobat Reader (free PDF Viewer) installed, to complete this course.

COURSE DELIVERY:

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ASSESSMENT:

A simple 10-question true or false quiz with Unlimited Submission Attempts.

CERTIFICATION:

Upon course completion, you will receive a customised digital “Certificate of Completion”.