Help Along the Way

If you have chosen to go it alone for now, the Accelerator will assist you with pacing yourself. If, at any point along this journey, you’d like friends and a guide to the world of coaching, we invite you to enroll in the Certified Coach Program.

We will travel through the landscape at a quick pace. If you’ve opted for self-study, we recommend you set a time limit to complete each of the five sections (one per month, as a suggestion) and stay on schedule to maintain your momentum. If you engage in the Action Challenges and follow our lead, within six months, you will have launched your practice and will be coaching fee-based clients.

Use the SMART Goals form in Supporting Documents to set a time frame for accomplishing your goals for this program. From time-to-time we’ll remind you to check your progress.

The Action Challenges

“Do or do not do. There is no try.” -Yoda, Star Wars

New Coaches

Throughout the course you will be assigned To-Do items under this heading. These challenges are designed to form the foundation upon which you build your practice. The assignments you do in the beginning dovetail with the actions you take later in this course.

Established Coaches

Under this heading, you will find assignments for coaches who want to stretch themselves and take on advanced work. These are designed for coaches who are ready to go to the next level. These are also good assignments for your second or third time through this course.

The secret is to put consistent and persistent energy into building your practice every day. If you get derailed, you might feel momentarily discouraged, but do whatever you need to do to get back on track.

Advanced Work

“The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” -Michelangelo

In addition to the Action Challenges, established coaches will want to take on the Advanced Work. These segments are marked throughout the course.

New coaches are welcome to read through the material but should not feel obligated to incorporate the concepts the first time through the program.

The Coach Training Accelerator is best used as a foundational source of continuing education. There is a wealth of material included in this comprehensive program. You are not expected to absorb it all the first time through the course. As you grow as a coach you will experience the information in new and different ways.

Coach Training Alliance encourages coaches to commit to a path of life long learning and continuing education. We encourage a disciplined approach to the expansion of your capabilities. Like other professionals, coaches have a responsibility to ongoing professional development. Established coaches often commit to 12 or more hours of formal continuing education per year. For continuing education resources, click here

Resource Library

The Resource Library is a compendium of:

• Supporting documents
• Related articles
• Topic enhancers
• Worksheets
• Templates
• Coaching forms

Each is linked within the section of the program that corresponds to that document.

Supporting Documents

These accompanying materials enhance learning and comprehension. Supporting documents are critical to your training and should be included in your studies for each lesson. You’ll find in-depth explanations of concepts, exercises and templates that are designed to increase understanding and ease implementation. They are also accessible in the Index of Supporting Documents.

Related Articles

Articles providing added insights and varying points of view are linked to corresponding topics within each section. These are contributions from various coaches and other experts and do not necessarily represent the views of the Coach Training Alliance. They are included to enhance your experience and knowledge. A complete listing by author and title can be found in the Index of Related Articles.

Coach’s Toolbox

“The moment that one definitely commits one’s self, the Providence moves too.” -Goethe

This is the online portion of the program. The resources and opportunities provided here are updated and refreshed. You will need to be online to access Coach’s Toolbox.

In this section you will find:

• Recordings and other educational presentations available to you at no charge
• Client management programs
• Assessment tools
• Recommended eBooks and other coaching products

It is not necessary to implement all the tools or recommendations at once. These are provided as a resource and should be incorporated into your practice at a time that is comfortable for you.

Coaching is a practice and something at which you will be consistently improving. Your coaching skills, the tools you choose to use, and the style you develop will be revised, reformed, and refined over time. These Coach’s Toolbox are available to you when you are ready for them.

Getting the Most from this Program

The concepts, forms, and material provided in this program are not “rocket science.” You could probably collect much of this information, discover many of the resources, sort through it all, decide what is important, and put it to use without the help of this course. We’ve done that legwork for you so that you can focus on developing your skills and getting clients.

“Just In Time” Learning

What you receive here is guidance, direction and the wisdom of experience. This comprehensive program is a compilation of best practices in the profession funneled into a single stream of knowledge.

Each component is delivered exactly when you need it and in a way that helps you build on previous learning. It has been organized, discerningly edited, and condensed into what’s most important and timely in building a successful career in coaching.

You will:

• Learn from the mistakes of others who have gone before you.
• Discover short cuts that will take years off your learning curve.
• Accelerate your career in coaching and your ability to earn a significant income.

And you’ll also experience a few things that you didn’t sign on for. Those insights will reveal themselves when you need them most and expect them least.

What is Coaching?

Coaching is a highly tuned and powerful process of communication and problem solving. The relationship between a coach and a client is Co-Creative and focused entirely on the client’s interests, challenges, and goals.

If you have ever had a powerful conversation with someone and, as a result, they transformed in some small or even significant way, you were probably using coaching skills.

Many individuals have the potential to be a coach. Becoming a successful coach requires a blend of:

• Authenticity
• Commitment to success
• Discipline
• Integrity
• Honed communication skills
• Business savvy

It is truly a rewarding road to travel.

What It Takes to Be a Successful Coach

It would be extremely challenging to be a good coach without the experience, maturity, and acquired life skills of a journey already in progress. The best coaches are, in essence, guides along the path of life for those who wish to travel new roads.

In its simplest form, coaching is a powerful conversation between a trained coach and a client who is ready and willing to focus on personal and professional growth. The best coaches are those who are just a few steps ahead of their clients carrying a big torch to light the way.

“The best thing about getting older is that you can really begin to think about your calling, your passion...
When I look into the future, it is so bright, it burns my eyes.”
- Oprah Winfrey

There are five major areas of focus, which will help round out your existing skills, abilities, and experience. They are ordered in a sequence that will accelerate your progress the fastest and smoothest along your own path.

1. Coaching from Center

• Centering yourself and creating your coaching practice out of your vision, your authenticity, and your passion.
• Getting grounded.
• Articulating to your ideal clients the benefits of your coaching.
• How to offer sample sessions.

2. Impeccable Business Sense

• Establishing a solid foundation for your business.
• Building resources, networks and structures to support you and your coaching business.
• Setting fees and taking actions with integrity.
• Making the shift to thinking like a self-employed practitioner.

3. Effective Coaching Tools

• Honing skills and developing tools for coaching.
• The art of listening and asking powerful questions.
• Responding to clients intuitively.
• Strategizing and supporting your clients to take action.

4. Becoming a Client Magnet

• Attracting clients in a fun and easy way.
• Creating visibility and credibility while earning income and showcasing your skills.
• Leveraging your marketing and engaging the high touch approach.
• Creating a referral stream.

5. Masterful Coaching Sessions

• Mastering the four elements of the coaching model.
• Honoring the client’s agenda without hijacking it.
• Exploring different coaching roads with clients.
• Creating the impetus for the client to shift.
• Framing the session with meaningful coach requests.

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