Advanced Coaching Program
Elective Modules
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A-513 organisational Development This course covers organisational development from a coaching perspective, in that coaches develop organisations one person, team or group at a time. You will explore the nature of organisational development and how you can influences the organisation's ability to change, flex and lighten itself thereby strengthening the organisation. Prerequisites: The Core Essentials program and CCU-02 The Coaching Conversation (ACCP program) or A–601 Business Coaching Conversation (ACP program) must be completed. |
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A-525 Coaching The Executive Practice Lab An entirely experiential course focused on each individual’s ability and skill development coaching the CEO/Executive client in specifically directed coaching interactions. Each participant will coach and receive feedback on their current demonstration of ability from the faculty, a peer and a self-evaluation. The feedback offered to the participant will be used to guide their further training and development. Each participant has 20 minutes to coach, be coached and write a case study on an observed coaching session. Coach-the-coach occurs by faculty. Each participant must coach, be coached and write a case study to receive credit for this course 16 students maximum |
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A-530 Assessments for Coaching This course explores an assortment of assessments that coaches use to support different client needs. The coach will identify appropriate instruments such as Multirater 360°, DISC® and others to use in a variety of business situations. Prerequisites: The Core Essentials program and A-501 Corporate Conversation Model (ACCP program) or A-601 Business Coaching Conversation (ACP program) must be completed. |
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A-610 New Business Success Beginning a new business entails a variety of interesting challenges such as risk, personal growth, an extensive learning curve, potential errors in judgment, endless action steps to take and new levels of professional development to attain. Learn about the steps and dynamics of starting up a new business, and discover the value of coaching in the start up process. Prerequisites: The Core Essentials program and A-601 Business Coaching Conversation and A-701 Personal Coaching Conversation must be completed. |
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A-611 Small Business Success The small business owner hires a coach to accelerate the growth and profitability of the company. You will learn numerous business principles, which will help the small business owner to succeed. You will also learn the keys to small business success and how to introduce these in a coaching interaction. Given that many owners of small businesses have the characteristics and habits of entrepreneurs, beneficial coaching strategies related to these dynamic personalities will be explored. Prerequisites: The Core Essentials program and A-601 Business Coaching Conversation and A-701 Personal Coaching Conversation must be completed. |
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A-612 Business Turnarounds You need to develop the ability to quickly size up the situation, discern the real problem sources, prioritize the work to be done, coach your client to immediate action and lay the groundwork for a profitable company. You will learn how to use the ‘edge’ in coaching interactions where there may be resistance to taking the sometimes radical, drastic or unusual actions that are required for a quick turnaround. Prerequisites: The Core Essentials program and A-601 Business Coaching Conversation and A-701 Personal Coaching Conversation must be completed. |
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A-620 Marketing Marketing includes networking, referral-based marketing, niche identification, innovation, and the value-added approach. Learn how a company or business can implement the principals of attraction to become irresistibly attractive to ideal customers, strengthen customer loyalty and to identify and build a strong reputation by demonstrating mastery in one's profession, service or product line. Prerequisites: The Core Essentials program and A-601 Business Coaching Conversation and A-701 Personal Coaching Conversation must be completed. |
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A-621 Profitability One of the main purposes in business is to make a profit. This course examines the main theories of profitability, what profitability means in regard to a successful coaching interaction with a business and various methods for measuring increased profitability. You will learn how to support a business from a coaching perspective in substantially increasing their profits. Prerequisites: The Core Essentials program and A-601 Business Coaching Conversation and A-701 Personal Coaching Conversation must be completed. |
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A-635 Coaching The Professional Practice Lab An entirely experiential course focused on each individual’s ability and skill development coaching the professional client in specifically directed coaching interactions. Each participant will coach and receive feedback on their current demonstration of ability from the faculty, a peer and a self-evaluation. The feedback offered to the participant will be used to guide their further training and development. 16 students maximum |
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A-636 Coaching The Entrepreneur Practice Lab An entirely experiential course focused on each individual’s ability and skill development coaching the entrepreneur client in specifically directed coaching interactions. Each participant will coach and receive feedback on their current demonstration of ability from the faculty, a peer and a self-evaluation. The feedback offered to the participant will be used to guide their further training and development. 16 students maximum |
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A-637 Coaching The Manager Practice Lab An entirely experiential course focused on each individual’s ability and skill development coaching the client who is a manager in specifically directed coaching interactions. Each participant will coach and receive feedback on their current demonstration of ability from the faculty, a peer and a self-evaluation. The feedback offered to the participant will be used to guide their further training and development. 16 students maximum |
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A-638 Coaching The Sales Professional Practice Lab An entirely experiential course focused on each individual’s ability and development coaching the sales professional client in specifically directed coaching interactions. Each participant will coach and receive feedback on their current demonstration of ability from the faculty, a peer and a self-evaluation. The feedback offered to the participant will be used to guide their further training and development. 16 students maximum |
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A-710 Life Planning Life planning is the process by which a person increases the personal influence they have in their own life to live a life by design instead of one by default. This course particularly focuses on how to structure a comprehensive coaching approach in four major areas; values and goals, mission, life map and Coach U’s Clean Sweep program. Prerequisites: The Core Essentials program and A-601 Business Coaching Conversation and A-701 Personal Coaching Conversation must be completed. |
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A-711 Spiritual Path Spirituality is the notion that we are all one, connected somehow with every other human being, yet distinct in our own gifts, views, direction and choices. This course supports the view that everybody has their own unique version of spirituality and has the ability to develop their spirituality by conscious effort. Other areas of focus are the idea there are universal laws and what they are, the idea of surrender and the experience of bliss and fulfillment. Prerequisites: The Core Essentials program and A-601 Business Coaching Conversation and A-701 Personal Coaching Conversation must be completed. |
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A-712 Intuition Intuition is the human capacity to know without the use of rational processes or concrete information. Learn to identify, sort and effectively act on information coming to you in an intuitive way. Prerequisites: The Core Essentials program and A-601 Business Coaching Conversation and A-701 Personal Coaching Conversation must be completed. |
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A-720 Financial Independence Financial independence is the place you reach in life where you have more than enough money to live on now and for the rest of your life and where your choices and goals are not influenced by the making of money. This course helps you understand financial independence as a real possibility, not a pipe dream or source of disappointment and that there as many ways to attain financial independence as there are people to dream them up. You will learn how to move through resistance to being financially independent and to be able to make the shifts and changes necessary to have financial independence be more than just a conversation. Prerequisites: The Core Essentials program and A-601 Business Coaching Conversation and A-701 Personal Coaching Conversation must be completed. |
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A-730 Attraction Attraction is about being whole and present so you effortlessly draw to you what you want in life versus having to sell, seduce or promote yourself. You will come to fully understand all the principles of attraction and learn what is required to become irresistibly attractive having more of what you want and less of what you don’t want in your life. Prerequisites: The Core Essentials program and A-601 Business Coaching Conversation and A-701 Personal Coaching Conversation must be completed. |
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A-745 Personal Path Practice Lab An entirely experiential course focused on each individual’s ability and skill development coaching around concepts regarding a person’s path of personal development in specifically directed coaching interactions. The Personal Path Assessment, which is an introduction to the higher-end, higher quality of day to day living, is used as a basis for this course. Each participant will coach and receive feedback on their current demonstration of ability from the faculty, a peer and a self-evaluation. The feedback offered to the participant will be used to guide their further training and development. 16 students maximum |
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A-746 Buff Practice Lab An entirely experiential course focused on each individual’s ability and skill development coaching around concepts regarding a high quality of excellence in a person’s life in specifically directed coaching interactions. The Buff Checklist is used as a basis for this course. Each participant will coach and receive feedback on their current demonstration of ability from the faculty, a peer and a self-evaluation. The feedback offered to the participant will be used to guide their further training and development. 16 students maximum |
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A-747 Restorative Practice Lab An entirely experiential coursefocused on each individual’s ability and skill development coaching around restorative challenges in specifically directed coaching interactions. This course will allow you to experience real-time coaching drawing the distinctions out between coaching and therapy and developing your ability to discern the difference. Each participant will coach and receive feedback on their current demonstration of ability from the faculty, a peer and a self-evaluation. The feedback offered to the participant will be used to guide their further training and development. 16 students maximum |
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A-810 Creating the Vision The emphasis is on developing the professional by developing the person. The coach literally builds one’s business “from the inside out.” We’ll consider a number of topics, which will enable you to ultimately establish a powerful and compelling vision for your business. Prerequisites: The Core Essentials program must be completed. |
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A-811 Exploding Myths This course will challenge and inspire you to examine your personal foundation of beliefs and assumptions about being in business and what it means to be successful. Learn to zero in on the most significant opportunities to reframe limiting beliefs and behavior. Prerequisites: The Core Essentials program must be completed. |
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A-820 Marketing and Selling – Private Life Coaching Practice This course is focused on building your practice through attraction-based marketing. Attraction is the result of offering high value, being someone worth hiring and knowing how to present yourself and your message. Learn how to attract ideal clients to your practice. Further, for clients, coaching is just an interesting idea until they actually hire you. Learn proven ways to share the coaching message and to "coach" the client to say “Yes!” Prerequisites: The Core Essentials program must be completed. |
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A-821 Marketing and Selling – External Corporate/Business Practice Marketing and sales skills are critical to getting your product to the organisational clients you target. As a coach and businessperson, you must establish your target market and develop a sales process that will attract clients so you can get on to the business of coaching! Prerequisites: The Core Essentials program must be completed. |
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A-830 Practice Management – Private Life Coaching Practice A coaching practice is a business that is only as good as your ability to deliver quality coaching and manage all aspects of your coaching company. The client relies on the coach to provide the structure necessary to continue to improve, even in the midst of distractions, diversions, “better ideas” and new priorities. Learn to provide plenty of support without crowding the client or creating a dependency. Learn additional steps required to own and run a successful coaching practice. Prerequisites: The Core Essentials program must be completed. |
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A-831 Practice Management – External Corporate/Business Practice Although each external coach is responsible for unique issues within his or her practice, all coaches share general business concerns that are critical to a successful practice. This course addresses issues in practice management including how to start, build, and operate a professional coaching practice. Prerequisites: The Core Essentials program must be completed. |
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A-835 Strong Start Beginner Practice Lab This course supports new coaches in the mechanics of beginning to coach professionally. It is an entirely experiental course focused on the individual needs of the participants and the particular manner in which they intend to coach. This course is run much like a group coaching expereince where each individual has the opportunity to explore their specific challenges and receive coaching by faculty and peers. This is a fully participatory course geared for individuals who are ready to take action. Prerequisites: The Core Essentials program must be completed. |
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A-840 Integrating/Marketing Group Coaching Group coaching can provide a means by which you can add diversity to your coaching product offerings. In this course you will determine the value of group coaching to your particular client market and learn what it would take to fully integrate group coaching into an existing coaching practice. This course further provides an overview of the methods most successfully used to market group coaching. Prerequisites: The Core Essentials program must be completed. |
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A-841 Integrating/Marketing Teleclasses TeleClasses can provide a means by which you can add diversity to your coaching product offerings. In this course you will explore the dynamics of a valuable TeleClass experience and the nature of TeleClasses most beneficial to your particular client market and learn what it would take to fully integrate TeleClasses as an additional product line to your existing coaching practice. This course further provides an overview of the methods most successfully used to market TeleClasses. Prerequisites: The Core Essentials program must be completed. |
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A-850 Transitioning to Full Time Coaching Most individuals find the process of transitioning from a full time job and a full time life to having a financially successful, full-time coaching practice challenging. Learn the three basic strategies to transitioning from full time job to full time coach. Prerequisites: The Core Essentials program must be completed. |
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A-851 Advanced Practice Development Participants will examine advanced practice development topics, which will support the development of attitudes, skills and behaviors to employ a diverse mix of sophisticated practice development strategies. When the coach has a waiting list of clients, he or she feels completely free to strongly coach the current clients, which is exactly what they need. Learn the strategies for developing and maintaining a full coaching practice, which mesh with personal and professional strengths and interests in order to develop powerful leverage. Prerequisites: The Core Essentials program must be completed. |
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A-855 Strong Start Advanced Practice Lab This course supports coaches who have some coaching experience in the mechanics of growing their professional business. It is an entirely experiential course focused on each individual’s needs and understanding of the particular manner in which they intend to continue to coach. This course is run much like a group coaching experience where each individual has the opportunity to explore their particular challenges and receive specific coaching by faculty and their peers. This is a fully participatory course geared for individuals ready to take specific action to move them to the next place professionally. Students must have accumulated 100 coaching hours and have coached at least 15 different coachees. 16 students maximum |
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A-865 Million Dollar Coach Forum This course supports the experienced coach in discussions based on building the million dollar coaching practice. This is a fully participatory course geared for individual’s who have reached a high level of success coaching and want to explore the million-dollar game. Coaches must be earning a six - figure income through their coaching practices to enroll in this course. This course is not for the inexperienced coach just interested in the conversation. Prerequisites: The Core Essentials program must be completed. |
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A-910 Overview/New Skills for Group Coaching Group coaching can be defined as coaching that takes place with two or more people simultaneously. Learn the skills, tools and strategies to successfully provide group coaching. Be prepared to fully participate in this course and practice this refined coaching skill set. Prerequisites: The Core Essentials program, A-601 Business Coaching Conversation and A-701 Personal Coaching Conversation must be completed. |
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A-912 Overview/New Skills for Teleclass Leading TeleClasses offer a unique environment for learning that support a coaching model many coaches offer. Since many coaches have global practices TeleClasses can replace on site or in person workshops to some degree. Learn the skills, tools and strategies to successfully create and conduct TeleClasses. Be prepared to fully participate in the course and practice being a TeleClass leader. Prerequisites: The Core Essentials program, A-601 Business Coaching Conversation and A-701 Personal Coaching Conversation must be completed. |
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A-920 Coaching The Essence Coaching the essence describes coaching that is direct, succinct, and gives a client additional clarity on major issues quickly. It is that set of skills, intuition, instinct, insight, and trust in the client you use to ask big questions and make significant observations candidly and non-judgmentally. Learn how to quickly and easily coach a client’s important issues. 16 students maximum |
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A-925 Advanced Coaching Skills Practice Lab Each participant has 20 minutes to coach, be coached and write a case study on an observed coaching session. Coach-the-coach occurs by faculty; feedback focuses on the development of the core coaching skills. Each participant must coach, be coached and write a case study to receive credit for this course. 16 students maximum |
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A-935 Group Coaching Practice Lab An entirely experiential course focused on each individual’s ability and skill development coaching in specifically directed group coaching interactions as the coach running the group, not a peer coach. Each participant will coach and receive feedback on their current demonstration of ability from the faculty, a peer and a self-evaluation. The feedback offered to the participant will be used to guide their further training and development. 16 students maximum |
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A-945 Teleclass Leading Practice Lab An entirely experiential course that is focused on each individual’s ability and skill development coaching in specifically directed TeleClass leading coaching interactions as the coach running the group, not a peer coach. Each participant will coach and receive feedback on their current demonstration of ability from the faculty, a peer and a self-evaluation. The feedback offered to the participant will be used to guide their further training and development. 16 students maximum |
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A-950 Coaching for Therapists (ONLY) Therapists make wonderful coaches, yet it can be a challenge to make the shift from being a therapist to being a coach. This course is offered as support, inspiration, and guidance for therapists who want to make the transition easier and more successful. Prerequisites: The Core Essentials program, A-601 Business Coaching Conversation and A-701 Personal Coaching Conversation must be completed. |
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