Curriculum

Overview of Coach Training Sessions

 Module I: Self Leadership and Beyond

Session I: The Definition of Coaching (Time allotted: 2 Hours)

• The ICF's definition of coaching
• The uniqueness of coaching vs. therapy, mentoring, consulting, and good friends
• The principle that clients are whole and experts in their own lives
• Characteristics of a coach

Session II: The Coaching Process: An Overview of the 5 C's of Coaching (Time allotted: 2 Hours)

• The Center for Coaching & Leadership Training Process
• Connecting
• Contracting
• Clarifying
• Creating
• Committing

Session III: Listening Skills (Time allotted: 2 Hours)

• Three types of listening
• When to apply each type of listening during the coaching session
• How to shift from one type of listening to another

Session IV: Connecting Deeply (Time allotted: 2 Hours)

• Building rapport to connect
• When to use Level 1 listening
• Establishing the Coaching presence
• The power and skill of acknowledging and validating

Session V: Contracting for Success (Time allotted: 2 Hours)

• Bridging "connecting" to "contracting"
• Asking "What do you want?"
• The skill of scaling
• Where are you now?
• Where would you like to be?

Session VI: Clarifying: Empowering Questioning (Time allotted: 2 Hours)

• Bridging "contracting" to "clarifying"
• The value of open-ended questions vs. closed-ended questions
• The cue words to use for open-ended questions
• Stacking

Session VII: The Power of Values (Time allotted: 2 Hours)

• The importance of the clarifying question: "Why do you want it?"
• How values drive "wants"
• The persistence of "Why do you want it?"

Session VIII: Smart Goals (Time allotted: 2 Hours)

• How to bridge "clarifying" with "creating"
• The question of "How can you get there?"
• SMART goals
• Looking at all points of view

Session IX: Committing to the Plan (Time allotted: 2 Hours)

• How to bridge "creating" to "committing"
• The question "What's stopping you?"
• Holding the client accountable
• Recognizing the benefits
• All about homework

Session X: Internal Coaching (Time allotted: 2 Hours)

Our internal blocks:

• Limiting beliefs
• Interpretations
• Assumptions
• Gremlins

Module II: Deepening Coaching Skills

Session I: An in-depth Look at The ICF's Core Competencies (Time allotted: 2 Hours)

1. SETTING THE FOUNDATION
2. Meeting ethical guidelines and professional standards
3. Establishing the coaching agreement

Session II: An In-depth Look at The ICF's Core Competencies (Time allotted: 3 Hours)

1. CO-CREATING THE RELATIONSHIP
2. Establishing trust and intimacy with the client
   4. Coaching presence

Session III: An in-depth Look at The ICF's Core Competencies (Time allotted: 4 Hours)

1. COMMUNICATING EFFECTIVELY
2. Active listening

• The Magic of Empathic Listening
• The Definition of empathy
• The effect of empathic listening
• Ingredients of empathic listening
• Exercise: Practicing Pausing and Wait Time
• What do I paraphrase?

Session IV: An In-depth Look at The ICF's Core Competencies (Time allotted: 6 Hours)

1. COMMUNICATING EFFECTIVELY
2. Powerful questioning

• Delving Deeper on Empowering Question through Blooms Taxonomy
• Knowledge
• Recall- what, when, who where
• Recognition- identify, repeat, recall
• Comprehension
• Translation- changing the information given into another form
• Interpretation- perceived information not given
• Extrapolation- finding a pattern and predicting next possibility
• Cause and effect- helping clients to recognize patterns of personal behavior
• Sequence- “what was the sequence of events?” or “How would you like the sequence of events to be in the future?”
• Application
• Given a problem new to the client, the client will apply the appropriate abstraction without having to be prompted as to which abstract is correct or without having to be shown how to use it in that situation
• Analysis
• Client breaks down situation or relationship into its constituent parts, and names the relationship of the parts to the whole and the whole to the parts
• Synthesis
• Clients use known or given elements of information and rearranges them to form a new entity
• Evaluation
• Client, using criteria, own or determined by others (experts) forms an opinion.

Session V: An In-depth Look at The ICF's Core Competencies (Time allotted: 2 Hours)

1. COMMUNICATING EFFECTIVELY
2. Direct communication

• clear, articulate and direct
• Reframing and articulating
• appropriate and respectful language
• metaphor and analogy

Session VI: An in-depth Look at The ICF's Core Competencies (Time allotted: 4 Hours)

1. FACILITATING LEARNING AND RESULTS
2. Creating awareness
   Designing actions
   10. Planning and goal setting
   11. Managing progress and accountability

Session VII: The ICF Code of Ethics (Time allotted: 4 Hours)

• The importance of professional standards
• The integrity of coaching and coaches
• The profundity of confidentiality
• A general overview of the ICF Coaching Ethics

Module III: Mastery Coaching

Session I: Inner Critic or Gremlin (Time allotted: 4 Hours)

• Unconditional self-acceptance
• Self-critic job description
• Detachment
• Observing
• Reperceiving
• Cognitive defusion
• Creates purpose for the self-critic
• Understanding the inner-critic
• Getting deep into the conversation
• How would a friend relate to your self-critic
• Reframing critical talk
• Compassionate chair work

Session II: Flourish/Flow (Time allotted: 4 Hours)

• PERMA
• Positive emotion
• Engaged
• Relationships
• Meaning
• Achieved
• Flow – the prototype of an intrinsically motivated state of consciousness
• Preconditions of FLOW
• Challenge-skill balance
• Clear goals
• Unambiguous and immediate feedback
• Experiential features of a flow state

Session III: Committed Goal Pursuits (Time allotted: 4 Hours)

• Choosing life goals
• OPF goal setting- Outcome, Process, Feedback
• WOOP- Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan
• WOOP theory

Session IV: Committed Goal Pursuits (2) (Time allotted: 4 Hours)

• Defining goals
• 4 core ingredients of goals
• Direction
• Energy
• Activation
• Motivation
• Victor Vroom’s expectancy theory of motivation

Session V: Assertiveness (Time allotted: 2 Hours)

• Learning to distinguish between physical and emotional hunger
• Learning to say no

Session VI: Values/Vision Quest (Time allotted: 4 Hours)

• Determine short, medium- and long-term goals
• Assessment

Session VII: Exploring Explanatory Theory (Time allotted: 2 Hours)

• Examining explanatory styles
• Difference between interpreting and explaining life events
• Tools for pessimistic and optimistic outlook

Session VIII: Growth Mindset (Time allotted: 4 Hours)

• Creating an awareness of growth vs. fixed mindset
• 20 guidelines that help develop a growth mindset

Session IX: Emotional intelligence 2.0 (Time allotted: 2 Hours)

• The feeling wheel