The Executive and Professional Coaching Program provides a series of non credit short courses designed to meet the educational and professional development needs of those interested in improving their coaching skills and/or meeting the education requirements of their profession.
These short courses are meaningful educational opportunities for coaches seeking to earn the required Continuing Coach Education Units (CCEU's) for PCC or MCC re-certification through the International Coach Federation.
| TITLE | INSTRUCTOR | 2008 DATES | TIMES | CCEU's |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ginger Cockerham, MCC |
TBA |
5:00-6:00pm CST |
4 |
|
Christine Martin, MCC |
CLOSED |
12:00-1:00pm CST |
4 |
|
Vicki Escude, MCC |
CLOSED |
12:00-1:00pm CST |
4 |
|
Judy Feld, MCC |
CLOSED |
5:00-6:00pm CST |
4 |
|
Judy Feld, MCC |
CLOSED |
5:00-6:00pm CST |
4 |
|
David Matthew Prior, MCC |
CLOSED |
6:30-7:30pm CST |
4 |
|
Frank Traditi |
Wednesdays, |
5:00-6:00pm CST |
4 |
|
Francine Campone, Ed.D |
Thurdays, |
5:00-6:00pm CST |
4 |
|
Ann Deaton, PhD |
TBA |
TBA |
4 |
|
David Matthew Prior, MCC |
TBA |
TBA |
4 |
|
Ann Deaton, PhD |
TBA |
TBA |
4 |
For more information, contact Danielle Edwards-Crandall or by phone at 972.883.5906.
Challenges of Confidentiality: "I Shouldn't Know That!"
The purpose of this class is to bring to the forefront the very real dilemmas that occur when a coach is told important, often
sensitive, information inside the coaching conversation.
Topics for illumination and inquiry include:
- How not to become the messenger
- Keeping confidences when clients know or work with each other
- Managing the knowledge of sensitive information
- To keep or not keep notes
- Handling reporting requirements
This class directly relates to the ICF Core Competencies and includes the following:
- Meeting Ethical Guidelines and Professional Standards
- Establishing the Coaching Agreement
This class meets for four weeks via teleconference. Each session is 60 minutes in length. Participants are mailed a Completion
Certificate documenting attendance.
Instructor: Christine Martin
Continuing Coach Education Units: 4
CLOSED : $200
Coaching Entrepreneurs
In this course, participants will learn essential skills and principles for coaching small business owners, independent professionals, and start-up CEO's. Topics include understanding entrepreneurial personality traits and work styles, typical coaching issues of the entrepreneur, the role of the coach in business planning, combining coaching with consulting or teaching, working with the crucial issues of focus, motivation and accountability, and tools for coaching entrepreneurs. This course meets 4 weeks via teleconference. Each session is 60 minutes in length. Participants are mailed a Completion Certificate documenting attendance.
ICF Core Competencies:
- Meeting ethical guidelines and professional standards
- Powerful Questions
- Establishing the coaching relationship
- Active Listening
- Holding the clients' Agenda
- Direct communication
- Coaching presence
- Creating awareness
- Designing actions
Instructor: Frank Traditi
Continuing Coach Education Units: 4
Register Online for: $200
Coaching Nonprofits
This learning module provides an introduction to coaching with nonprofit organizations. Participants will learn about some of the unique challenges faced by nonprofits, and strategies for coaching effectively. Topics include understanding when and why nonprofits seek coaching, crucial conversations for nonprofits, the roles of nonprofit CEO, board, and teams, and business development coaching for nonprofits. This course meets 4 weeks via teleconference. Each session is 60 minutes in length. Participants are mailed a Completion Certificate documenting attendance.
Core Coaching Competencies Addressed in Coaching Nonprofits:
- Establishing the Coaching Agreement
- Powerful Questioning
- Creating Awareness
- Designing Action
Instructor: Dr. Ann Deaton
Continuing Coach Education Units: 4
Registration has not yet opened for this class: $200
Coaching Skills for the Emotionally Intelligent Workplace
This class is targeted to professionals who would like to use emotional intelligence coaching skills in the workplace to enhance all levels of relationships, including subordinate to superior (managing up), manager to direct report (managing down) and peer to peer (managing level). Drawing from real life work scenarios and case study examples, the instructor will teach coaching conversation skills for the purpose of building greater trust and fostering increased respect in the workplace. Examples of topics will include a coaching skill focus on emotional intelligence competencies, such as:
- Building Emotional Awareness
- Your Emotional Competence
- Developing Self Confidence
- Adapting Your Response to the Present Moment
- Taking Initiative through Conversations
- Practicing Trust and Integrity
- Using Empathy Appropriate to the Work Situation
- Handling Inner and Outer Conflicts
- Providing Feedback
- Managing Organizational Politics
The class will be taught using stories and demonstration coaching. Assignments will include applied practice in between classes, and articles for reading to supplement class content may be required (for purchase). This course meets 4 weeks via teleconference. Each session is 60 minutes in length. Participants are mailed a Completion Certificate documenting attendance.
ICF Core Competencies Covered:
- Establishing Trust and Intimacy
- Coaching Presence
- Active Listening
- Powerful Questioning
- Direct Communication
- Creating Awareness
- Designing Actions
Instructor: David Matthew Prior
Continuing Coach Education Units: 4
CLOSED
Coaching Skills to Walk Your Talk
In today's work environment, those who will demonstrate success and remain competitive will be the employees and managers who are able to skillfully build trust and collaboration through strong, positive work relationships. This includes the people skills associated with managing up (subordinate to superior), managing down (manager to direct report) and managing par (peer to peer). This class will provide coaching tools to improve personal and professional integrity at work and cover topics such as:
- How to address inner and outer conflicts in the workplace environment
- Navigating and managing organizational politics strategically
- Reconciling your personal values with the organization's values
- Coaching skills to enhance power, authority and influence
- Equalizing your inner talk (self talk) with your outer walk (actions)
- How to define and claim your opportunity responsibility through awareness and action
- How to hold others accountable and responsible in a non-threatening way
Students will be requested to use the class as a learning lab by bringing professional examples (which may be worked within a de-identified format) where they want to improve walking their own talk. The class will use hypothetical case studies and story telling to illustrate and practice coaching skills for the workplace. This course meets 4 weeks via teleconference. Each session is 60 minutes in length. Participants are mailed a Completion Certificate documenting attendance.
ICF Core Competencies Covered:
- Establishing Trust and Intimacy
- Coaching Presence
- Active Listening
- Powerful Questioning
- Direct Communication
- Creating Awareness
- Designing Actions
- Planning and Goal Setting
- Managing Progress and Accountability
Instructor: David Matthew Prior
Continuing Coach Education Units: 4
Registration has not yet opened for this class.
Coaching Using Imagery and Metaphors
Coaching is effective for many different kinds of clients, yet some very bright and motivated coaching clients are challenged by the highly language-based nature of coaching. In some cases, their individual style lends itself better to visual imagery or even word pictures. In other cases, using words alone is limiting—this familiar way of seeing things does not stretch a client's comfort zone, or open a new perspective. This module on using imagery and metaphors for effective coaching provides an introduction to how to (1) ask powerful questions that enable clients to access their own visual images and metaphors, (2) identify and use visually based assessment tools in coaching, and (3) design coaching homework to deepen clients' ability to use imagery and metaphors to discover and take effective action. This course meets 4 weeks via teleconference. Each session is 60 minutes in length. Participants are mailed a Completion Certificate documenting attendance.
Instructor: Dr. Ann Deaton
Continuing Coach Education Units: 4
Registration has not yet opened for this class.
Effectively Coaching Financial Services Professionals
This course provides an introduction to situational coaching in the specific arena of financial services. It is designed for both external coaches and internal coaches who work with financial professionals. This module also supports executive partners and directors, trainers, recruiters and managers who want to learn the skills to effectively coach financial professionals. This course meets 4 weeks via teleconference. Each session is 60 minutes in length. Participants are mailed a Completion Certificate documenting attendance.
Core Competencies Covered:
- Establishing the Coaching Agreement
- Establishing trust and intimacy
- Coaching Presence
- Active Listening
- Powerful Questioning
- Direct Communication
- Creating Awareness
- Designing Actions
- Planning and Goal Setting
- Managing Progress and Accountability
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the course, Coaches who have successfully completed the course will be able to:
- Understand the process of creating vision, mission statements for clients for the purpose of clarity in designing goals and action steps for clients.
- Develop specific coaching strategies for eliminating obstacles and energy drains that clear space for achievement for the financial profession.
- Discuss the elements of a Business Plan as they apply specifically to the financial professional.
- Refer to specific sources of information that will provide the financial clients with the resources on an "as needed basis".
- Understand the function and value of using assessments in coaching the financial services professional.
Instructor: Ginger Cockerham
Continuing Coach Education Units: 4
Registration has not yet opened for this class : $200
From Obstacles to Insights: Coaching for Awareness
Help your clients identify and overcome obstacles in professional and personal situations. Both external obstacles and internal obstacles will be addressed.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the course, Coaches who have successfully completed the course will be able to:
Topics include:
- How toidentify obstacles
- How obstacles manifest
- Examples of obstacles that clients experience
- How to create self-awareness of obstacles with clients
- Understanding the Manifestation Model and behavior
- The role of coaching within the Manifestation Model
- Coaching tools to move past external obstacles
- Coaching tools for internal obstacles.
This class directly relates to all 11 of the ICF Core Competencies.
This course meets 4 weeks via teleconference. Each session is 60 minutes in length. Participants are mailed a Completion
Certificate documenting attendance.
Instructor: Vicki Escude
Continuing Coach Education Units: 4
CLOSED
The Art of Partnering with Your Client
The purpose of this course is to inquire into and practice techniques of partnering with a client for the purpose of exploration
and discovery; two of the coaching techniques in coaching mastery.
Topics for illumination and inquiry include:
- What is partnering?
- How do partners work together?
- What is different about a partnering relationship?
- What happens when coach and client are truly partners?
This class directly relates to the ICF Core Competencies and includes the following:
- Establishing Trust and Intimacy
- Active Listening
- Creating Awareness
- Designing Actions
This class meets for four weeks via teleconference. Each session is 60 minutes in length. Participants are mailed a Completion
Certificate documenting attendance.
Instructor: Christine Martin
Continuing Coach Education Units: 4 Registration
Registration has not yet opened for this class. for: $200
Masterful Marketing for Coaches
This class teaches participants how to strategically plan and market their coaching business. Topics include defining the right
marketing approach, making the correct choice about niches and specialties, using technology to manage and grow your practice, how to
expand into corporate markets, how to gain media coverage, client retention and referrals, and how to leverage strategic alliances.
Topics for illumination and inquiry include:
- Creating and implementing a strategic plan for your coaching business
- How to be comfortable with multiple methods to attract clients and create a profitable coaching business
- Creating and disseminating a variety of marketing materials
- Identifying high-potential growth areas for coaching
- Understanding and implementing various marketing approaches: in person and virtual short-term and long term
- Planning for your coaching website
This class satisfies the following ICF Core Competencies:
- The development of the coach's practice
This class meets for four weeks via teleconference. Each session is 60 minutes in length. Participants are mailed a Completion
Certificate documenting attendance.
Instructor: Judy Feld
Continuing Coach Education Units: 4
CLOSED
Using Assessments Tools
This course will explore the different types of assessments that can be incorporated into a coaching relationship as well as the goals
for doing so.
Topics discussed in this course include:
- The range of assessments available
- Selecting assessments that enable clients to enhance their awareness and set goals
- Locating an assessment based on a particular coaching issue Developing powerful questions that enable clients to most effectively use assessment results
This class directly relates to the ICF Core Competencies and includes the following:
- Active Listening
- Powerful Questioning
- Direct Communication
- Creating Awareness
This course meets 4 weeks via teleconference. Each session is 60 minutes in length. Participants are mailed a Completion Certificate documenting attendance.
Instructor: Dr. Ann Deaton
Continuing Coach Education Units: 4
Registration has not yet opened for this class: $200
Coaching in the Four-Generation Workplace
For the first time we now have four generations in the workplace. It's crowded in there! This class will focus on traits specific to each generation, and, most importantly, what a coach needs to know (and apply) to understand their interactions, issues, styles and preferences.
Topics for illumination and inquiry include:
- Who are the four generations? We see some variation in the labels and dates used, with the following commonly understood:
- The Silent Generation was born before 1946
- Baby Boomers were born between 1946 and 1964
- Gen Xers were born between 1965 and 1980
- Millennials (sometimes called Gen Yers or Generation Next) were born after 1981
- How do we recognize them, if not by age or hierarchy? How do common experiences shape the personality of a generation?
- What are the challenges of leadership, management and team development that pertain to each generation?
- How do we best coach each generation—individually and in groups?
- What pitfalls can we anticipate in our coaching?
- Additional resources, research and suggested workshops and presentations will be discussed.
This class directly relates to the ICF Core Competencies and includes the following:
- Establishing the Coaching Agreement
- Establishing trust and intimacy
- Coaching Presence
- Active Listening
- Powerful Questioning
- Direct Communication
- Creating Awareness
- Designing Actions
- Planning and Goal Setting
- Managing Progress and Accountability
This class meets for four weeks via teleconference. Each session is 60 minutes in length. Participants are mailed a Completion Certificate documenting attendance.
Instructor: Judy Feld
Continuing Coach Education Units: 4
CLOSED
Using Case Studies to Make Your Coaching Case
This class is directed at practicing coaches who are looking for a substantive and credible methodology for documenting their coaching work, client progress and coaching outcomes. A case study approach can serve many purposes:
- providing an evidence-based presentation of coaching interventions, processes or outcomes with a individual or group;
- as a strategy for engaging in reflective coaching practice;
- demonstrating a coach's skills for a credentialing process;
- as the basis for an article for publication; as a teaching tool.
In this class, participants will learn about types of case studies, the elements of case study, and how to design a case study, and we will discuss ethical considerations. The class will also introduce levels at which case studies can be analyzed and provide an overview of some basic methods for making meaning of case study materials. The instructor will offer resource materials for participants who wish to explore case study methods in greater detail.
ICF Core Competencies:
- ethical guidelines and professional standards
- active listening
- creating awareness
- managing progress and accountability
This class meets for four weeks via teleconference. Each session is 60 minutes in length. Participants are mailed a Completion Certificate documenting attendance.
Instructor: Francine Campone, Ed.D., PCC
Register here for: $200
