COACH EDUCATION

INTERNAL COACH CERTIFICATION PROGRAM (ICC) FOR PROFESSIONALS

Organizations building coaching into their leadership cultures need to identify and develop an adaptable core team of trained internal coaches as business partners. The Coaching Project Inc. offers a tailored four to six month program with several unique features.

Unique Features:

  • Our proven 3-stage coaching process
  • Communication and conversation styles and approaches
  • Modelingby Program Coaches
  • Strategies for dealing with resistance
  • Continuous feedback from Program Coaches and peers
  • Analyzing client’s 360° feedback results and coaching for development and improvement
  • Tools and support for choosing the right coach and client

Candidate Selection: standards and qualifications for screening potential participants to support the best choice of candidates for your needs.

Pre-work: reading and reflection assignments to familiarize candidates with coaching concepts and research, as well as a 360° survey of coaching skills based on our unique competency model.

Internal Coaching Workshop: a 2 ½ day workshop balances understanding models and concepts with intense practice and feedback to ensure skills are developed on a firm philosophical base. Coach candidates leave the workshop with a personal development plan and a map of their intended coaching relationship(s).

Practicum Experience: Four to six months where each candidate contracts with at least one client in their workplace to practice their skills. Learning groups continue with bi-weekly calls to provide structured follow up support, problem solving alternatives, and additional concepts and tools as required.

Advanced Seminar: a one day follow up session includes discussions of additional models, tools, readings, etc. that are relevant to the issues raised in the practicum. Internal coaches who complete the certification process will be Certified Internal Coaches, and will receive a certificate from The Coaching Project Inc.