Program Synopsis

Module 1:

Foundations
of The Coachmakers Training™

• Spirit, essence, potential and uses of coaching
• Limits of coaching: differentiation between coaching and other disciplines like training, therapy, consulting, supervision, mentoring.
• Attitude of a coach and ethical guidelines (framework of the International Coach Federation [ICF])
• Core competencies of a coach as defined by the ICF
• Structure of the whole coaching process: The Energy-Bow™
• Neuroscience of human learning
• Your self-image and coaching vision as a coach
• Evaluation of your personal compatibility with coaching
• Defining your goals, ROE (return of education) and commitment for completing The Coachmakers Training Coaching with Professionalism, Power and Integrity program

Module 2:

The
Art of Coaching – Developing The Coachmaker™

• Critical thinking: Developing and leveraging your own coaching style while honoring the ethics, guidelines and competencies of the ICF
• Structure of individual coaching sessions: Start, end, phases of the Energy-Bow™
• Distinctions as coaching tools
• Attention management as part of a coach’s self management and as part of a coach’s tool box
• Definition of empathy and validation: When and how to use
• The art and timing of asking the right question
• Working with goals
• The Give & Take Model of Professional Feedback™
• Dealing with resistance
• Common projections, counter transference and mirror phenomena in coaching
• Human transformation model and change management theory: interventions and applications of The Coachmakers -Levels of Change™

The Coachmakers Communication Intensive

• The iceberg model applied to communication
• Model of Successful Communications according to Konrad Lorenz
• Four Sides of a Message according to Schulz von Thun
• Four Ears Model from Schulz von Thun
• Feedback-rules for giving and receiving feedback
• Model of Nonviolent Communication from Marshall B. Rosenberg
• Handling of conflicts and their common core

Module 3:

Tools,
Toys and Techniques of The Coachmaker™

• Formal and informal coaching contracts
• How to design the start of a coaching relationship and each coaching session
• Ego-Mastery™: Owning versus having an ego and how it impacts coaching
• The Power of Intentional Positive Projections™
• Professional Listening I: becoming conscious of your own listening patterns; learn those that are in service to coaching and those that are not
• Left brain coaching methods: use of words (e.g. repertoire of questions), tools (e.g. Wheel of Life) and other linear processes
• Right brain coaching methods: working with metaphors, visualizations, movement, geography, toys and other creative approaches
• Chair Work™
• Sense and nonsense of human development models and assessment tools (personality, behavior, values, strengths, etc)
• Neuro Linguistic Programming: Definition, techniques and application to coaching
• Solution Focused Therapy (SFT) developed by Steve de Shazer
• Scaling: Making soft goals measurable, Walking Scale™ and other adaptation from SFT
• Powerful endings: Designing how to end each coaching session and the coaching process
• Advantages and disadvantages of telephone coaching

Module 4:
The Coachmaker™ Philosophies and Style

• Professional Listening II: Capturing listening traps
• The Power of Rituals™
• The Power of Acknowledgement Process™
• Systemic and constructivist axioms: science, philosophy, distinctions and application
• Coachmakers Constellations™
• Transaction analysis, drama triangle, and rules of the game: Definition, interventions and application
• Working with The Inner-Stage-Play™
• The Work by Byron Kathie
• Adaption and translation of face-to-face methods to telephone coaching
• Use of questionnaire and templates live, via email, fax and phone
• Evaluations: Determining how and when to use them (during, at the end and after the coaching process is complete)

Module 5:
The Corporate Coachmaker™ – Coaching Applications

• Distinctions between life coaching, business coaching, corporate coaching, internal coaching, coaching as the manager: Advantages and traps
• Special details of executive coaching
• Coaching for the sustainability of learning through educational trainings
• Coaching within the context of employee, team and organizational development models, policies and practices
• The Change-Navigator™: Mastering the hidden logic of emotions
• Corporate coaching contracts: using ethical guidelines and avoiding traps
• Contract-Triangle-Constellations™: Definition and transparency
• Corporate culture: Analysis and determination of fit for coaching, navigation and use of coaching within the culture; impact on employees, team and organization
• Coaching topics and case studies of executives, human resource managers, middle managers, average employee, etc.
• The Coachmakers-HR-Roleplay™ Sales communication in different settings

Attention! The group learning phase of The Coachmakerstraining Executive Track™ ends with module 5.

Module 6:
Coaching as a Trade – The Coachmaker™ in Business

• SWOT Analysis: determining Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats for you and your coaching application (business, corporate, personal)
• Unique Selling Proposition (USP): Using personality edges to drive authenticity and branding
• Defining your niche
• The Coachmakers-Success-Recipe™: Strategic business plan development for coaches
• Product development and price design
• The Coachmakers-Money-Inquiry™: Discovery, leverage and transformation of paradigms and life patterns
• The Law of Attraction (LoA)
• Marketing with pull not push: Strategic Attraction Plans
• Internet presence through webpage, blog and social media
• Client relations: nurturing, managing and creating sustainability for the client relationship
• Tips and tricks of successful coaches

Module 7:
The Coachmakers™ Commitment – Exam, Conclusion, Transition

• Coaching practice sessions: Evaluation of your competency development (ICF)
• Presentation of your strategic business plan
• Definition and commitment to strategic milestones
• Define supporting actions and calendaring of steps for implementation of strategic plan
• Completing open questions
• Examination (ICF ethics and core competencies and use of your personal style): Coaching of external clients
• Acknowledgment and celebration: The Coachmakers Training™ evening event