Core Essentials Modules

This overview provides new students with the policies and procedures that support the student experience at CoachInc.com. This class is for new students only, not existing students.

Prerequisites: This course is a prerequisite for all other classes.

By fully participating in the material offered in this module, you will begin to understand the profession of coaching and evolve your own personal definition. You will gain an understanding of the coaching core competencies identified by the International Coach Federation and the steps involved in developing your coachees and providing continued structure for their growth. You will gain knowledge of the Coaching Ethics for Internal and External Coaches and learn how to apply these ethical principles in various coaching scenarios.

Prerequisites: CE-101 CoachInc.com 101

By fully participating in the material offered in this module, you will gain an understanding of the Guiding Principles of Human Interaction. These represent the fundamental theories and principles about people in interaction, which coaches generally accept as true. You will recognize the existence of these principles in yourself and others whether in a personal or organizational setting.

Prerequisites: CE-101 CoachInc.com 101

By participating in this module you will learn how to effectively craft a coaching relationship to connect strongly with your coachee. You will be able to clearly distinguish between coaching and other professions and become familiar with the coaching framework and several coaching models.

Prerequisites: CE-101 CoachInc.com 101

By participating in this module, you will increase your understanding of the common elements of listening effectively to your coachees. You will be able use the various listening skills to know what to listen for, avoid listening pitfalls and use the skill that is most appropriate at any place in a coaching conversation. You will be able to move freely and easily between the different types and focuses of listening and also to listen for clues that indicate where a person is on his or her path of development along with whether the issues presented are best referred to another type of professional.

Prerequisites: All 100 series courses must be completed.

By participating in this module you will be able to identify your and your coachee’s preferred language and learn to continually choose the language that, in the moment, best conveys meaning, inspires, challenges or clarifies. You will become aware of how your coachees use language to explain, defend, inform, describe and ask for what they want, need and value. In the process of learning about language and its forms and uses, you will expand your everyday skill to express yourself and be able to help others to do the same.

Prerequisites: All 100 Series must be completed

Powerful questioning is at the core of effective coaching. By participating in this module, you will learn to craft and deliver great coaching questions. You will learn how the type, timing and impact of a coach’s questioning differs from that of the typical way questions show up in most conversations, and how you can direct the flow of the coaching interaction for optimal benefit for the coachee.

Prerequisites: All 100 series courses must be completed.

Strategizing is a comprehensive coaching practice. By participating in this module you will learn the tools to help your coachees develop effective strategies to accomplish their goals. This module will give you an understanding of the framework of strategizing, as well as practical tools and information about the discernment and attitude involved in being an effective strategist.

Prerequisites: All 100 series courses must be completed.

By participating in this module you will learn what to say and how to say it, so that your use of messaging is effective and valuable to the coachee. Messaging is a powerful coaching tool that opens the possibility for a shift to occur. You will become familiar with the mechanics of messaging, including the two main methods used at various times with a coaching interaction, as well as the limitations and pitfalls.

Prerequisites: All 100 series course must be completed.

By participating in this module you will learn how to effectively use the enabling tools of acknowledgement to help your coachees achieve their vision. You will understand the framework of acknowledging, including the methods and stages, and even the perils. You will be given practical tools and information about skills, discernment of, and attitudes regarding acknowledging, and you will know the pitfalls and promoters of effective acknowledging.

Prerequisites: All 100 series course must be completed.

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
Prerequisites: All 100 and 200 series courses must be completed.

By participating in this module you will gain a basic understanding of common personal or professional conditions experienced by a coachee. While coaching cannot be done based on a single formula or recipe, it is possible for a coach to use some of what is understood about various types of coachees to create a framework from which to develop a coaching plan.

Prerequisites: All 100 series courses must be completed.

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
Prerequisites: 100 series courses and CE-310 Situational Coaching must be completed.

Coaching has become such an essential part of personal and organizational performance that coaching practices are now found inside organizations as well as in multi-coach coaching groups, and individual coaching businesses. This module is intended to apply to coaches in any one of these three situations, though some of the information may be more relevant to one type of coaching practice than another.

This module will lead you step-by-step through the items essential to establishing yourself as a coach, introduce you to the new coachee process, and teach you the hallmarks of achieving on-going coaching success.

Prerequisites: All 100 series courses must be completed.

Objective is to complete coaching services package (welcome package) and course worksheets by the end of 4 weeks; must submit project to faculty to receive credit for the course.

Prerequisites: 100 series courses and CE-320 Establishing Yourself as a Coach must be completed.

The first level of personal foundation focuses on the outer presenting “package” of a person identifying some of the most immediate roadblocks to moving forward. You will learn how to eliminate those roadblocks to personal growth, improve your attitude and create new and healthy habits, which support you in making better choices that are more aligned to who you really are.

Prerequisites: All 100 series courses must be completed.