Level 1 Foundational Cohort (for earning ICF's ACC credential) Program Overview
The Foundational Cohort, an ICF-accredited Level 1 program, is engaging, packed full of tools and techniques, will provide you with quality content and techniques to develop your coaching competencies, provide a coaching process with flexible options, and support your growth as a coach over time with resources. The program is designed to provide a solid foundation in ethics while engaging you in the training and mentor coaching required to earn the ACC credential with ICF.
How long does it take to become a coach? Per the International Coaching Federation, ICF, becoming an ACC credentialed coach involves the following: 60 hours of coach training, 100 hours of coaching experience of which 75 or more hours must be paid, 10 hours of Mentor Coaching, passing assessment on one recorded coaching session at the ACC level, and taking and passing their exam.
Program Overview and Agenda
- About Coaching: What a Coach Is Not, What a Coach Is, How to Excel as a Coach with the ICF's Core Competencies
- Ethics: What the specifics of the Code of Ethics means for you, scenarios and what to do, and ethical accountability
- Understanding Your Client: A tool for recognizing how your client is thinking and interacting combined with tips to adjust
- Communication: Techniques for fully engaging through listening, clear, direct language, and asking powerful questions
- Focus and Motivation: Tools for recognizing language patterns and thought patterns to create a shift for a positive forward focus.
After each of the first five online classes, you will have an assignment to either research and reflect or to practice specific people and communication techniques, then write a two-page report. Expect to invest at least 90 minutes in each of your reports. - Group Session: Q&A, model and process overview, and explore resources
- Coaching Practicum: For the Coaching Practicum you will Coach, Be Coached, and Observe Coaching during each of the following: Introductory Coaching Session, Opening Coaching Session, Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Coaching Sessions. After the opening session you will have a homework assignment in preparation for your second coaching session - expect 3 hours to complete it. Because the coaching practicum involves you being matched with classmates to coach, be coached, and observe coaching full participation in all times scheduled is required.
- Case Study: Fill in a table outlining the coaching process from the initial conversation through challenges.
Upon completion of the above classes and deliverables, you earn a foundational designation and are ready to start coaching as a Certified Professional Coach.
Designed to expand your knowledge and application of the ICF's Core Competencies of a coach, this next section will deepen your learning and enhance your application.
- Group or Team Coaching: Explore considerations for coaching groups or teams and prepare for your group coaching.
- Ethics and Agreements: Review the dont's and the do's for competencies 1 and 2, then explore application.
- Coaching Process: Discuss the dont's and do's for the competencies 3, 4, and 5, then expand with the how to tips for a coach.
- People and Communication: Consider the dont's and do's for competencies 6 and 7, then confer on how to effectively use the techniques when coaching.
- Creating Change with Confidence: Go through the dont's and do's of competency 8, then delve into application when coaching.
- Time and Money: Review tools and basic concepts plus talk about coaching on sensitive topics with specific examples for time and money coaching.
- Coaching Practicum: For the Coaching Practicum you will interview and be interviewed for coaching, Coach, Be Coached, Observe Coaching for three individual sessions each.
- Group Coaching: Coach the group plus be in the coaching group for the six group coaching sessions.
- Debrief: Chat about learning points and plan for your next steps as a coach.
- Final Report: Write a two-page report about your coaching with a client over viewing your approach, results, and what you learned - expect to invest 90 minutes for completing this report.
- One-on-One Coaching Session: Schedule your one-on-one coaching session individually to review your progress with your coaching experience and strategize your efforts.
Before and After each class you will write a one-page report responding to three questions - expect to invest 45 minutes for each of these reports.
Upon completion of the above classes and deliverables, you earn the next level designation as a Certified Master Coach.
- Mentor Coaching Group 1: Introductions, Review the Group Coaching Format, Explore Ethics and Agreements in Coaching then Define Your Action Plan.
- Mentor Coaching Group 2: Explore Co-Creating the Coaching Relationship then Define Your Action Plan.
- Mentor Coaching Group 3: Explore Communication – Listening, Clear and Direct Language, and Powerful Questions then Define Your Action Plan.
- Mentor Coaching Group 4: Explore Creating Awareness then Define Your Action Plan.
- Mentor Coaching Group 5: Explore Challenges, Tools, and Techniques then Define Your Action Plan.
- Three individual sessions totaling 3 hours.
- Individual sessions are scheduled after you submit a recording of you coaching a client for 20-60 minutes with the transcript. You may submit up to three recordings.
- If your first recording passes, the second session is after submitting your self-assessment of coaching clients and three to six clients submit their assessment of you coaching.
- The topic of your remaining time is open - it must focus on your coaching.
Upon completion of everything listed above, you earn the Level 1 certificate to apply for the ACC credential as a Certified Master Coach.
Learning Outcomes:
- Explain the parameters of coaching.
- List the ICF's Core Competencies.
- Discuss the Code of Ethics.
- Identify and coach different personal styles.
- Use listening, assertive communication, and questioning techniques.
- Recognize and adjust to V-A-K styles, Meta Models, and Meta Programs.
- Coach for proactive goal setting and action planning.
- Differentiate between Group Coaching, Team Coaching, Facilitation, and Training.
- Plan for and coach a group session.
- Identify the do’s and the dont's for meeting ethical guidelines and establishing the coaching agreement.
- Illustrate and describe coaching process.
- Recognize and apply the do’s and dont's for establishing trust and coaching presence.
- Practice and demonstrate active listening, powerful questioning, and direct communication.
- Practice and demonstrate creating awareness, designing actions, planning and goal setting, and managing progress and accountability.
- Explore sensitive topics and demonstrate openness to discuss in coaching sessions.
- Identify areas for additional research to enhance coaching services.
- Plan for and coach in keeping with the Code of Ethics and ICF's Core Competencies.
- Earn 10 hours of mentor coaching for ICF's ACC credential.
- Build confidence.
- Deepen active listening, rephrasing, and reflecting.
- Enhance clear, direct communication.
- Polish powerful questioning.
The full Level 1 Foundational Cohort and Level 2 Advanced Cohort programs include the training hours, recording assessments, and Mentor Coaching required by ICF for the associated credential
By paying in full at one time, you will save! Programs include all class materials, classes, group sessions, and coaching sessions required for each certification.
- The full program fee for the Foundational Cohort - Level 1 is $5890.
- The full program fee for the Advanced Cohort - Level 2 is $9780.
Prior to earning certification, applicant understands and agrees to complete the course work, attend all hours of training and fully participate, complete research, practice, and report assignments, fully participate in all segments of the coaching practicum, submit all evaluations, and complete the case study or final report assigned. Certification is possible within offered schedules; applicant has up to three months after the last pre-scheduled date of the program to complete the deliverables or transfer to a different class with the associated transfer fee. A certificate is issued upon completion showing the program approvals and accreditations for hours. Applicant agrees and understands that any opportunity for make-up work is at the discretion of the trainer. Transferring to a different class before starting is based on space available. If you attend part of the program with one class and part with another class, there will be an additional fee of $350.
The ICF has approved these programs as Level 1 or Level 2.
The International Coaching Federation, ICF, has accredited all Center for Coaching Certification programs as (formerly ACSTH, ACTP), Level 1, Level 2, or CCE. Partial hours of Level 1 or Level 2 programs are available as well as the complete cohorts.
The International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training, IACET, and Association of Image Consultants International, AICI, have accredited offering CEUs as follows:
- The Certified Professional Coach program: 30 hours = 3 CEUs, is $1995.00.
- The Certified Master Coach program: 35 hours = 3.5 CEUs, is $2195.00.
- The Certified Advanced Coach program: 35 hours = 3.5 CEUs, is $2195.00.
- The Coaching Experience class: 30 hours = 3 CEUs, is $1995.00.
- The Mentor Coaching meets the ICF requirements for the ACC, PCC, or MCC credentialing = 1 CEU, is $2195.00.
- Foundational Cohort: = 7.5 CEUs, Level 1 is $5890.
- Advanced Cohort: = 14 CEUs, Level 2, is $9780.
AICI CEUs may be earned. Please note that while these courses are accredited by the Association of Image Consultants International (AICI) certification earned through the trainer upon completion of this course is entirely independent from AICI’s certification programs. If you wish to pursue AICI certification, please refer to AICI's website. http://www.aici.org.
The International Coaching Federation, ICF, and International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training, IACET, have accredited offering CCEs or CEUs as follows:
- 10 CCEs or 1 CEU for the Coaching Supervision group, is $2095.
- Coaching Skills for Professionals: 12 hours of Core Competency = 12 CCEs or 1.2 CEUs, is $895.
- Diversity and Equity in Coaching: 8 of Core Competency and 2 of Resource Development = 10 CCEs or 1 CEU, is $595.
- Science of Positivity: 12 hours: 8 of Core Competency and 4 of Resource Development = 12 CCEs or 1.2 CEUs, is $595.
The program is owned by the Center for Coaching Certification LLC, parent company Effect Services LLC, and its founder Cathy Liska. Other trainers are independent contractors with no proprietary interest.
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Cancellation Policy: In the event you must cancel participation, up to seven days prior to the start of the first program webinar you may request a refund of the amount less a twenty percent processing fee; six days or less prior to the start of the first program webinar you may request a refund of fifty percent of the registration. You may transfer your full registration to someone else up to three days prior to the start of the first webinar. Transferring to a different class before starting is based on space available.
Transfer Policy: If you attend part of the program with one class and part with another class, there will be an additional fee of $350.
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