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Our diploma is a skillfully blended course and comes in four parts:

PART 1 – PRE WORKSHOP ASSIGNMENT

There are two activities in this section. The first activity, comprises of a book study. Which requires that you read the number one best selling life coaching book, ‘The Life Coaching Handbook. Everything You Need To Be An Effective Life Coach’ by Curly Martin. The book is supplied as part of the course materials.

The second activity is a goal setting exercise which requires that you define your life and business goals using the copy write forms which will be provided. This activity is designed to give you maximum flexibility as a coach, so that you are able to offer your clients not only the usual client questionnaires other coaches offer, you are also able to offer goal setting in form format, which appeals to corporate and business clients and can accelerate achievement. There is a comprehensive client questionnaire available to you as a download document from the Achievers Club (members area) which will give you flexibility for working with all types of clients – those who prefer working with forms and those who like to answer questions. You will become experienced with both formats and therefore are able to offer alternatives during your coaching sessions.

PART 2 -  MANDATORY WORKSHOP

There are two workshops included in the diploma; the one described here is the mandatory one and the other (final assessment workshop) one, is offered as an optional workshop or can be completed as a distant learning activity. We have many overseas clients who prefer the later option which saves them valuable time and money. You choose which suits you best.

Workshop Overview

Practical Coaching Activities - During this workshop you will experience 14 separate practical coaching sessions using the goals from you prepared in PART 1. The sessions will be arranged in the following format:- being the coach, be coached and giving observational feedback on coaching. Using the highly effective ICANDO© coaching model. All of theses sessions will be supervised sessions and when you are the coach you will be coaching between 20 -30 minutes each time. This does not include the coaching demonstrations delivered by the training team.

Communication – You will take part in a listening assessment exercise to gauge your current listening abilities and given listening models and strategies to improve your listening skills. You will discover your questioning style and be offered alternatives to give you maximum flexibility when working with clients and thus avoiding the situation where do you do not know what to ask next. You will be given a language training device so you can eliminate any unconscious negative language patterns you might have. The effective communication model.

NLP communication skills for coaches, such as, representational systems, metaphoric linguistic models, meta language patterns, rapport building, clean language patterns, embedded language are also covered in this section.

Values – You will have your core values elicited using a copy write values system and you will practice eliciting someone’s values. Values are the cornerstone to outstanding coaching and this system is licensed to you as part of the coaching diploma. You are free to use this powerful licensed tool with your clients which will elevate your coaching way above most of the competition. Most other coach training organisations teach values but they do not have access to this 3 step system which sets our coaches apart from the crowd.

Marketing – During this section you will discover over 30+ benefits of life coaching which you can use to create your marketing and website. You will touch, see and discuss a  myriad of marketing examples from corporate through SME (small, medium enterprises) to personal life coaching. You will use our methodology for deciding on your niche market and prepare your marketing strategy. Learn about vision, mission and value statements. Decide on your pricing policy by choosing an approach best suited to your style from the 3 easy to use options shown to you. The marketing examples are available for you to look at, handle and ask about throughout the entire workshop. At the end of this session you will have a complete personalised niche marketing sphere of excellence and your own pricing strategy so that you can get started immediately.

Promoting your practice – You will discover how to promote your coaching practice using a minute to win it and a thirty second commercial process (which is a lot of fun!). You will have supervised practice of using the highly effective and simple to use, RABIT© model which we show you how to skilfully combine with a micro coaching session using your very own marketing and pricing strategies which you compiled on day one. You will discover the power of testimonials and referrals and learn a simple step-by-step process to make asking for them as easy and as much fun as child’s play. Design your own scripts to use in any promotional situation rather than using standard parrot scripts.

Starting up in business -  During this session you will learn about, Safety, Insurance, HM Revenue and Customs, PAYE, VAT, Pensions, Record keeping – Data Protection Act 1988, NDA’s (non-disclosure agreements), contractual agreements,  Health & Safety, Sole Trading, Limited Liabilities, Partnerships, Audited accounts, Companies House and other aspects related to business set-up.

Beliefs – This is a life changing session! Not our words but the words of many of our delegates, some have said that this session alone was worth the course fee! You will discover some of your limiting beliefs and the price you have paid for believing in them. Using a powerful technique of decide, dismantle and replace you will construct powerful beliefs to support you at the start, during the growth and along the journey of becoming an outstanding life coach. You will learn the table top and suitcase methods of dismantling beliefs. The self-talk cycle combined with the 3 P statement model will give you a fast belief construction tool to use on yourself and with your clients.

Coaching circles – you will part of a coaching circle with someone to coach and someone to coach you with an observer to continue to give you structured feedback on you use of the coaching models, NLP techniques, language patterns, limiting beliefs, value elicitations etc.. You have to complete 50 coaching hours post workshop to qualify for the diploma and your coaching circle is the start of the process for you.

Achievers Club access codes – you will be given your access code to the Achievers Club where you can ask questions of Mentors and other coaches, contribute to the discussions, download a myriad of documents to augment your learning, advertise your life coaching practice, upload your photograph and much, much more.

Distant learning manuals – you will receive your distant learning manual, your continuous professional development (CPD) manual and your starter kit. Depending on the option you invested in you will also receive all the multi-media products and coaching books.

PART 3 - DISTANT LEARNING ASSIGNMENTS

The distant learning manual is designed to remind, enhance and develop the skills, knowledge and competencies you gained on the mandatory workshop. Taking your growth and development to a deeper level and layering on extra knowledge, skills and practice to ensure you feel confident and competent as you complete the manual and your coaching logs. Below is an overview of the topics covered in each section of the manual and you will see how it maps easily onto the learning from the workshop.

SECTION 1

Life Coaching Defined

• What is Life Coaching?
• Who hires a Life Coach and why hire a Life Coach?
• Benefits of Life Coaching.

SECTION 2

Goal Setting

• Discover goals/aims which are important to you and apply these techniques with your clients.
• Preparing goal plans. Discover the effects of visual representation of goals by compiling and using your own Goals Of The Heart Chart.

Result Based Coaching

• How to employ this unique Life Coaching format to add focus and detail to your coaching process.

I-CAN-DO©

• Unique Copyright model of Life Coaching which is easy to remember, flexible and effective for personal and corporate coaching clients. Find out how to adapt this model for outstanding results.

SECTION 3

Beliefs

• Discover any limiting beliefs you have and learn quick and effect methods to change them to empowering beliefs.
• Construct your own empowering beliefs about being an outstanding Life Coach
• Find powerful InCANtations to support your Life Coaching practice and skills.

SECTION 4

Values

• Use the adapted problem solving technique for amazing and revealing values elicitation to find your values hierarchy and use when working with your clients to help them discover the effects that values misalignment has on reaching their goals.

SECTION 5

Communication

• Rapport strategies, representational systems, five powerful language tips to enhance your coaching, listening filters that hinder or help the coaching process and NLP questioning techniques.

SECTION 6

Starting Your Practice

• Four essentials for starting your practice
• How to add Five enhancing items for building your practice
• How to avoid making the 5 most common mistakes coaches make when starting a practice.

Developing Your Practice

• Using the briefing matrix
• Why have a Life Coaching charter?

R.A.B.I.T©

• This Copyright model is very effective and simple to use. It will help you to expand and grow your practice by converting enquiries into paying clients easily and successfully
• Demonstration and rehearsals.

SECTION 7

Administration, Safety & Government Regulations

• Pricing, invoicing, ensuring payment, V.A.T, income tax, National Insurance, stationary, equipment etc.
• Working from home or meeting clients - safety issues. Safety tips and hints for working alone
• Prepare and protect your Life Coaching practice in advance of government regulation.

Self-Employed, Part-Time, Limited Company

The pros and cons of each option

SECTION 8

Marketing Your Practice

• Four things you should know when promoting your practice
• What works and what you should avoid
• Niche marketing
• Image creation
• Public relations and media strategies How to write a press release. What to put on business cards to stand out from the rest. Using the list of Benefits of Life Coaching compiled by your course participants for kick-starting your marketing.

Presentations

• The how and what to say if asked to present at a breakfast meeting or group of interested people
• 6 Dynamic, outstanding and original presentation openings and contents for speaking about your practice which will inspire and enthuse potential clients
• How to increase your client base by doing a coaching demonstration
• Hints & tips for professional presentation skills.

SECTION 9

Continuous Development Chronicle

• Your own record of your personal development within the Life Coaching profession. It contains forms for you to record, maintain and keep in the event of future government legislation for Life Coaches. This fully maintained section will provide you with all the necessary information to submit for a licence should the need arise. No need to worry about any future legislation.

SECTION 10

This is your starter pack and it contains the unformatted forms you will need to start your practice and maintain records. All you have to do is decide on your logo and print it on the forms and send out immediately to your clients. A coaching practice in an instant.

Code of Conduct

• What are your moral guidelines?

I Promise Pledge

• Clients commitment, knowing what is expected, the framework for working in partnership with you.

Client Enrolment/Registration

• Forms you can use or adapt to suit your own method of working.

Client Record

• Forms for keeping records of your client details and progress.

Contract/Agreement Letter

• This letter contains a basic contract for your client to sign and return to you. It contains the fundamental agreements you have made with your client and a section for client signature and date. This agreement could protect you from any litigation.

Goal Setting Forms

• Several different forms for goal setting. You can choose the most effective form or the form you prefer using.

Life Coaching Forms

• R.A.B.I.T© and I-CAN-DO© forms are freely given to you to use in your practice, along with other useful forms you can use or adapt to suit your style of working.

Future Of A Life Coach

• Specialisations such as

Parent coach, career coach, relationship coach, corporate coach, executive coach, small business coach, results coach, medical coach, doctors coach, sales coach, marketing coach, confidence coach, management coach, CEO coach, life style designer coach, the list is as endless as the uniqueness of the people joining this fabulous profession.

FINAL ASSESSMENT

This can be done in the comfort of your own home or at an optional workshop. The assessment consists of a multiple choice examination which test that the absolute key learning’s have been learnt and understood and prepares you to launch your practice with confidence. You will be encouraged to join the European Coaching Institute or a similar professional body to continue your emersion in the profession of coaching.