Certified Coach Program Overview
Learn, practice, and build your coaching skills over 22 weeks.
The Certified Coach Program brings coaching skills, practice, feedback, and professional preparation together. You begin putting what you learn into use during training.
Here’s a closer look at how that learning develops. These areas overlap throughout the program rather than happening as separate, finished steps.
Build your foundation.
Explore what professional coaching involves and begin recognizing the strengths you bring to the work.
- Understand how coaching differs from advice and other helping roles.
- Explore your values, natural strengths, and approach to helping.
- Begin developing the listening and presence that support a coaching conversation.
What this helps you do: Recognize what you already bring—and what you’ll learn through training.
Learn the coaching process.
A practical framework gives you a starting point for coaching conversations while you develop your skills.
- Learn the Simple Coaching Model.
- Observe coaching and discuss what you notice.
- Begin practicing how to help clients explore goals, choices, and next steps.
What this helps you do: Move from understanding coaching to trying it yourself.
Practice, receive feedback, and grow.
Coaching becomes more familiar through repeated experience. Practice gives you something concrete to reflect on, discuss, and improve.
- Practice coaching with real people during the program.
- Receive direct instructor feedback in Coach-the-Coach sessions.
- Strengthen your listening, questioning, and partnership with clients.
What this helps you do: Develop your skills and confidence through practice and feedback.
Prepare to put coaching into use.
Whether you want to build a practice or bring coaching into your existing work, you’ll consider how to apply your skills. Practice-building work helps you:
- Explore who you want to coach and the needs you want to serve.
- Explain who you help and the value your coaching offers.
- Develop a practical plan for connecting with potential clients.
What this helps you do: Connect your coaching skills with a direction for your work. You don’t need to arrive with a niche already chosen.
Bring your learning together.
Continue refining your coaching and consider how you’ll build on your experience after training.
- Integrate the coaching process more naturally into your conversations.
- Recognize your developing strengths and areas for continued growth.
- Identify practical next steps for your coaching work.
What this helps you do: Carry your learning forward with experience and a plan for continued development.
What you’re working toward.
The program is designed to help you develop coaching skills, gain real coaching experience, and prepare to put those skills into professional use.
You begin practicing while you’re learning. Coaching skills, feedback, and practical preparation develop together throughout the program.
Now that you can picture the progression, return to the exploration to consider the learning experience and whether it fits you.
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