Module 1:
Introduction to Coaching: Seeing the World Through New Eyes

What is Coaching?

• Building the foundational skills of a successful Coach
• Mastering the Coaching skills and putting to rest common misconceptions
• Understanding your role as a Coach and why your client is the expert, no you
• Improving your interpersonal relationships
• Why NOW is the best possible time to become a Coach and how to market your business in spite of the current economic difficulties

Tools and Resources:

• Coaching vs. Consulting
• Educating your clients about the explicit value of your coaching
• Spreadsheet for documenting your Coaching/Client sessions (This log is in the correct format to send directly to ICF when you're ready to apply for your credential)
• BONUS: Recording of Coaching Cognition 1.0 Call: Coaching Vs. Consulting
• BONUS: Access to recordings of all live interactive calls in your program
• BONUS: Access to Private Student Social Site

Tutorial 1: What is Coaching?

Live Calls:

• Interactive exploration calls
• Interactive role playing and practice Coaching
• Peer coaching call – Meet your peers and start building your support system
• OPTIONAL: Group Coaching call – get coached and evolve your Coaching skills
• BONUS: MP3 Recording of interactive call

Module 2:
Creating a Safe Environment Through Trust and Intimacy

• Get started building trust with your clients and solidifying your Coaching relationship
• Allowing your client to become vulnerable and open up guiding them to real solutions
• Setting ethical standards for your Coaching practice

Tools and Resources:

• Transforming your client s fear of being judged and enhancing their willingness to be Coached
• Coaching your clients to feel safe and secure in your relationship
• Why and how to adopt the ICF Code of Ethics
• BONUS: Recording of Coaching Cognition 1.0 Call: Safe Environment

Tutorial 2: The Ethical Coach

• Mastering the art of building a Coach-Client relationship
• The most effective ways to Coach your clients to take risks with you

Live Calls:

• Interactive exploration calls
• Interactive role playing and practice Coaching
• Peer coaching call - Continue communicating with your peers and enhancing your support system. The hours YOU act as a coach count toward your credential requirements with ICF.
• BONUS: MP3 Recording of interactive call
• OPTIONAL: Group coaching call – Get Coached and evolve your Coaching skills

Module 3:
Establishing Your Coaching Presence

• Why just being there isn't enough
• Developing your Coaching Presence and how this is crucial to your success as a Coach
• Becoming a master detective and see the clues everyone else is missing

Tools and Resources:

• Start trusting your intuition and build your confidence as a Coach
• Making the right choice faster and more frequently than ever before
• Using the Practice Plan Template as a tool for your Coaching success
• BONUS: Recording of Coaching Cognition 1.0 Call: Coaching Presence

Tutorial 3: Coaching Presence: It's More than just Occupying Space

• See beyond the surface of what your clients are communicating
• 8 reasons being 100% focused on your client will bring you more money

Live Calls:

• Interactive exploration calls
• Interactive role playing and practice Coaching
• Peer coaching call - Continue communicating with your peers and enhancing your support system. The hours YOU act as a coach count toward your credential requirements with ICF.
• BONUS: MP3 Recording of interactive call
• OPTIONAL: Group coaching call – Get Coached and evolve your Coaching skills

Module 4:
Master the Skillful Art of Active Listening

• Practicing the Art of Deep Listening and start getting instant results
• Mastering the fundamental difference between being right and being heard
• Catching the subtle clues of your client and avoid missing what they re really trying to tell you
• Insuring your clients feel heard and avoid feelings of resentment, isolation, unworthiness and insignificance

Tools and Resources:

• Sample Welcome Client Pack
• BONUS: Recording of Coaching Cognition 1.0 Call: Active Listening

Tutorial 4: The Art of Deep Listening

• Getting anybody to tell you absolutely anything in 15 minutes or less
• Immediately stop losing income, time and intimacy
• Discover why people regarded as great conversationalists are usually the ones who speak the least

Live Calls:

Module 5:
The Seven Most Powerful Questions That Create Tangible Results

• Mastering the art of asking questions that create powerful and substantial results
• Why asking the right questions is vital to your practice and begin cutting down your own workload
• Coaching your client through discovering the answers

Tools and Resources:

• Building your practice and opening even more opportunities through the art of Powerful Questions
• Why giving advice is the worst thing you can do for your client and how to avoid this dangerous pitfall
• BONUS: Recording of Coaching Cognition 1.0 Call: Why Questions

Tutorial 5: The Coaching Detective

• Developing Questions that create powerful results in your clients, team members and any other close to you
• Defining the direction of your Coaching conversations and stop limiting your client's choices

Live Calls:

• Interactive exploration calls
• Interactive role playing and practice Coaching
• Peer coaching call - Continue communicating with your peers and enhancing your support system. The hours YOU act as a coach count toward your credential requirements with ICF.
• BONUS: MP3 Recording of interactive call
• OPTIONAL: Group coaching call – Get Coached and evolve your Coaching skills

Module 6:
What Effective Feedback and a Good Sandwich Have in Common

• Mastering the skill of giving feedback your clients are excited to accept and process
• Discovering the power and effectiveness of feedback vs. opinion
• Avoiding the most common mistake Coaches make when offering feedback

Tools and Resources:

• Paramount moments to offer feedback and boost your client's progress
• BONUS: Recording of Coaching Cognition 1.0 Call: Sandwiching

Tutorial 6: Effective Feedback

• Knowing when to offer feedback and why this is as important as the feedback itself
• Avoid shutting down open and honest communication between you and your client
• What effective feedback and a good sandwich have in common

Live Calls:

• Interactive exploration calls
• Interactive role playing and practice Coaching
• Peer coaching call - Continue communicating with your peers and enhancing your support system. The hours YOU act as a coach count toward your credential requirements with ICF.
• BONUS: MP3 Recording of interactive call
• OPTIONAL: Group coaching call – Get Coached and evolve your Coaching skills

Module 7:
Perspective and Reframing: Proven Transformational Techniques

• Identifying what factors are influencing your client's perspective and may be stopping their progress
• Mastering the tool of Reframing and extinguishing negative perceptions for your clients and in your own life
• Discover just how simple Reframing can actually be

Tools and Resources:

• Coaching your clients from road blocks to speed bumps to smooth pavement
• Working through the process of Perspective and Reframing and watch your client s lives be transformed
• BONUS: Perception with Cindy Schulson
• BONUS: Recording of Coaching Cognition 1.0 Call: Reframing

Tutorial 7: Truth is in the Eye of the Beholder

• Learning the role perspective plays and how it influences truth
• Recognizing the pillars of perspective and why they can define our reality

Live Calls:

• Interactive exploration calls
• Interactive role playing and practice Coaching
• Peer coaching call - Continue communicating with your peers and enhancing your support system. The hours YOU act as a coach count toward your credential requirements with ICF.
• BONUS: MP3 Recording of interactive call
• OPTIONAL: Group coaching call – Get Coached and evolve your Coaching skills

Module 8:
Get Measurable Results by Setting and Accomplishing Goals with your Clients

• Developing your ultimate Coaching goal and watch as your Coaching practice and skills are transformed
• Guiding your clients from where they are to where they want to be
• Coaching your clients to set achievable, measurable goals that characterize their ideal outcome
• Coaching your clients through visualization and discover why this is monumental to success

Tools and Resources:

• Teaching your clients the multiple facets to setting a goal and start Coaching them through attaining their goals in less time
• Coaching your clients to avoid the common mistakes that derail them along their tracks of progress
• BONUS: Recording of Coaching Cognition 1.0 Call: Goal Setting
• BONUS: Formula for Goal Planning

Tutorial 8: On Your Mark, Get Set, Goal!

• Coaching your clients in setting both realistic and attainable goals specific to the individual
• Helping your clients discover clarity and transform their goals into reality

Live Calls:

• Interactive exploration calls
• Interactive role playing and practice Coaching
• Peer coaching call - Continue communicating with your peers and enhancing your support system. The hours YOU act as a coach count toward your credential requirements with ICF.
• BONUS: MP3 Recording of interactive call
• OPTIONAL: Group coaching call – Get Coached and evolve your Coaching skills

Module 9:
The Secret Action Formula to Predictable "Effortless" Success

• Requests & Challenges to Bring About Action
• Discovering the power behind developing an Action Formula
• Coaching your clients out of the talking phase and into motion
• Mastering the most challenging step in Coaching your clients through success

Tools and Resources:

• Motivating your clients, team members, and even family members to step up and take more responsibility than ever before
• Recognizing what keeps people from doing what they say they'll do
• BONUS: Recording of Coaching Cognition 1.0 Call: Role Play: Unrealistic Expectations & Perfectionism

Tutorial 9: Designing Actions: Actions with Traction

• Exciting yourself and others to take action and keep it up
• Coaching your clients through removing potential obstacles and using resources effectively

Live Calls:

• Interactive exploration calls
• Interactive role playing and practice Coaching
• Peer coaching call - Continue communicating with your peers and enhancing your support system. The hours YOU act as a coach count toward your credential requirements with ICF.
• BONUS: MP3 Recording of interactive call
• OPTIONAL: Group coaching call – Get Coached and evolve your Coaching skills

Module 10:
How to Coach Your Clients to Effectively Navigate Obstacles Along Their Journey to Success

• Discovering the most effective tools you can have while Coaching your clients to overcome obstacles
• Becoming a person who is able to keep going despite seemingly impossible odds
• Using your obstacles as a step ladder to success
• Coaching your clients to navigate around, through or over their most challenging obstacles

Tools and Resources:

• Identifying and Overcoming Obstacles
• Recognizing obstacles and their ultimate impact on the ability to reach a goal
• Developing a Coaching practice that encourages clients to openly take responsibility and stop blaming
• Holding the Emotion visualization exercises and how these can be foundational to overcoming obstacles
• Converting hostile people into your closest allies
• BONUS: Recording of Coaching Cognition 1.0 Call: Designing Actions/Diffusing Emotions

Tutorial 10: Getting Our of Your Own Way

• Getting out of your own way and opening yourself to taking risks
• Recognizing the most common obstacles and Coaching your clients through avoiding excuses

Live Calls:

• Interactive exploration calls
• Interactive role playing and practice Coaching
• Peer coaching call - Continue communicating with your peers and enhancing your support system. The hours YOU act as a coach count toward your credential requirements with ICF.
• BONUS: MP3 Recording of interactive call
• OPTIONAL: Group coaching call – Get Coached and evolve your Coaching skills

Module 11:
Your Vital Role in Coaching: Cultivating Accountability & Commitment

• Discovering the most constructive ways to hold yourself and others accountable for taking on and sharing responsibility
• Proven techniques that ensure your clients reach a high success rating, both benefiting your clients and your Coaching practice
• Playing the vital Coaching role of holding your clients accountable to doing what they say they will do

Tools and Resources:

• Creating structures to define responsibility and keep people accountable
• BONUS: Recording of Coaching Cognition 1.0 Call: Who is Accountable?

Tutorial 11: You Ought to Be Committed!

• Stop being robbed of your energy and time
• The most important step of accountability and how to master the art of getting others to follow through

Live Calls:

• Interactive exploration calls
• Interactive role playing and practice Coaching
• Peer coaching call - Continue communicating with your peers and enhancing your support system. The hours YOU act as a coach count toward your credential requirements with ICF.
• BONUS: MP3 Recording of interactive call
• OPTIONAL: Group coaching call – Get Coached and evolve your Coaching skills

Module 12:
Everything You Need to Start Your Coaching Practice

• Practical tools for setting up your Coaching practice
• The basics for designing a practice that works for you
• Discover how Coaching Cognition can help reduce your overhead and time commitment by an outrageous 75%

Tools and Resources:

• Refining the specific details of your Coaching practice and start piecing these together
• Mastering the flow of your first Coaching session
• Discovering even more resources that will be available through Coaching Cognition and the measurable benefits to your Coaching practice
• BONUS: Recording of Coaching Cognition 1.0 Call: Your Coaching Practice

Tutorial 12: Identifying Your Coaching Niche

• Learn what to consider when deciding on your coaching niche
• Join niche market Coach Cindy Schulson for this informative tutorial

Live Calls:

• Interactive role playing and practice Coaching
• Peer coaching call - Continue communicating with your peers and enhancing your support system. The hours YOU act as a coach count toward your credential requirements with ICF.
• BONUS: MP3 Recording of interactive call
• OPTIONAL: Group coaching call – Get Coached and evolve your Coaching Skills

Supervised Coaching:

• Practice coaching and listen to others coach under the guidance of a trained assessor in this intimate coaching class. Meets three times for 90 minutes each time. This will apply towards Mentor Coaching Hours for ICF credentialing.