What You'll Learn

58 Important Lessons You'll Learn
During This Dynamic, Information Packed
Coach Certification Training Program

1. How life coaching or business coaching differs from counseling and consulting
   
   
2. The International Coach Federation—and how it can help you build your coaching practice
   
   
3. The 12 characteristics shared by all life coaches
   
   
4. How a paradigm shift in sports coaching gave birth to the business coaching profession
   
   
5. How coaching differs from the other roles you play—and when you should change "hats"
   
   
6. Why successful coaches recommend making mistakes
   
   
7. The four ingredients of a successful life coaching-session close
   
   
8. How to give feedback that is supportive, constructive and honest
   
   
9. Why giving advice is bad for a coaching relationship
   
   
10. How to develop an extremely curious, coaching state of mind
    
    
11. The 15 critical skills you must develop to become an effective life coach or business coach—and how to apply NLP techniques to achieve greater, faster results
    
    
12. How to adapt the NLP techniques you've already mastered to the coaching environment
    
    
13. How to apply coaching skills to your current career—or alternatively, build a thriving life coaching practice
    
    
14. How to organize and run a professional coaching practice - learn to create contracts, handle scheduling and billing, even track paperwork
    
    
15. How your position in an interaction changes your perceptions · and which perceptual position is best for coaching
    
    
16. The three required characteristics of a crystal-clear desired outcome
    
    
17. The five questions you should ask your clients when establishing goals
    
    
18. Why we set goals and don't take action—and how to develop strategies for earnest commitment
    
    
19. How to release clients paralyzed by inaction and indecision
    
    
20. How to help clients recognize and break free of pressure words like should, have to, ought to and need to.
    
    
21. How to break overwhelming outcomes into smaller, easily manageable chunks that can be accomplished today.
    
    
22. How to grow healthy habits in just five minutes a day
    
    
23. The Universal Cycles of Change—how to help clients identify which of the 7 stages they're in, in all aspects of their lives
    
    
24. The six identifiable levels that impact clients' ability to achieve their goals—and how to help them "reprogram" the software of their minds to correct problems at each level
    
    
25. Know how to frame and reframe the client's limitations linguistically
    
    
26. Nine questions to ask clients to help them define desired outcomes
    
    
27. "The Seven C's" that interfere with our ability to achieve goals—and how to overcome these interferences
    
    
28. Five steps to follow when helping clients manage their states of mind
    
    
29. How to use backtracking and other powerful listening skills
    
    
30. How to help clients move toward success—and gently, almost effortlessly, fix problems along the way
    
    
31. 10 exercises to help clients clarify their values
    
    
32. A proven five-stage process for helping clients who repeatedly fail to fulfill their commitments
    
    
33. Six steps to changing clients' perceptions about their limiting beliefs or internal conflicts
    
    
34. 11 questions you can use to improve your coaching performance
    
    
35. A 5-point "reality check" for setting goals and making certain that there are no limiting beliefs that can block them
    
    
36. How to help clients instantly release themselves from destructive emotions
    
    
37. Learn effective modeling techniques to help clients more easily reach their goals
    
    
38. Why, to be a successful coach, you must continually improve yourself and serve as a role model for your clients
    
    
39. How to develop listening flexibility—so you can identify opportunities for
    masterful coaching
    
    
40. 12 sure signs that a client is not a good match for you—and 13 signs that coaching is on track
    
    
41. Critical cues to help you immediately gauge what state your clients are in
    
    
42. The six most common tensions your clients will struggle with—and 10
    questions to use in helping them identify ways to resolve the tension
    
    
43. 7 creative ways to get clients to listen to their bodies' clues
    
    
44. Three models to help you determine the way clients like to collect, filter
    and process stimuli—so you can speak to their model of the world
    
    
45. How to use language patterns to identify and understand the structure of a client's experience
    
    
46. Verbal clues to help flag distortions, deletions and generalizations that limit the client's model of the world
    
    
47. How to help clients improve the quality of their lives just by changing their internal dialogue
    
    
48. How to give feedback that is welcomed and heard
    
    
49. Seven questions that encourage clients to integrate new knowledge and insights
    
    
50. Six steps to helping clients create a vision, then turn it into action
    
    
51. The six things you must have to successfully market your practice
    
    
52. Ten proven ways to build name recognition
    
    
53. Ten skill building texts that belong in your personal coaching library
    
    
54. Seven forms to use to become acquainted with new clients and determine if they're a good match for your coaching
    
    
55. Ten proven methods for helping your clients get the most value and return-on-investment from their coaching sessions
    
    
56. 7 must-ask questions to design and modify a mutually rewarding alliance with your clients
    
    
57. What aspects of coaching should be established upfront—and what elements should remain fluid
    
    
58. How to establish a natural rapport with your clients within minutes of meeting them
    
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