Coaching Certification to Coach the Whole Person

Whole person coaching means that the coach takes time with the client to fully explore what they want in all areas of their life.  Even when the focus is business coaching training, life coach training, executive coaching certification, and career coach certification, this makes sense because the client is an individual and all areas of their life come to work with them.  After exploring goals in all areas of their life in a coaching session, future sessions are often focused on the business, executive leadership, or career.  Then, when something from their life is impacting them, the client is comfortable discussing it because of the whole person coaching process.

Coach Training Creates Focus, Motivation, and Successful Habits

For many of us, it is easy to have a goal and then get so busy in our lives we forget about it.  In many organizations, a great plan is developed and then it sits on the shelf because the day-to-day functioning consumes all the time and focus of the employees.  Certified Professional Coaches are aware that this is a barrier for clients.  When clients are asked what could hold them back, they will often say “me” or “procrastination” or “laziness” as the barriers to success.

During the business coaching training, life coach training, executive coaching certification, and career coach certification, focusing on how to move past these barriers makes a difference.   It takes time to change thinking and habits.  What does work?  There are many different examples of tools and processes for focusing thinking and changing habits.  There is extensive research available on how to change habits or develop new habits.  There is research around thinking and choosing thinking too.  Certified Professional Coaches work with the model of: 21 days to change a thought, 30 days to change a habit, and 6 to 12 months to set that habit in place. 

In order to change thinking and habits, two things must be happening: information in and application out.  Information in is the ongoing reminders of the desired thinking.  Application out is the doing.  In the coaching process at the Center for Coaching Certification, the second session focuses on the information in, and then by the third session it is about the application out.  For the information in, there are options: reading, listening, posting visual reminders, and accountability partners.  The Certified Professional Coach provides tools for the client to ensure they have the information coming in.

Coaching Begins with Exploring the Possibilities

When deciding to engage a coach, one of the steps in the process is to explore the possibilities.  For some, this involves asking other people.  Others research coaches, coach training, and coaching standards.  In many corporate settings a list of coaches is available.  Another option is an online directory of coaches such as www.FindaCertifiedCoach.com.  Alternatively, many people engage a coach because they saw them speaking or training, or met them in person.

                                              

One option when considering a coaching relationship is an introductory coaching session.  In the workplace, this serves to determine whether there is a good fit and to create buy-in for the coaching process.  For coaches offering this service, it is a chance to offer prospective clients the opportunity to experience coaching, and to have a sense of them as a coach.

Business coaching training, life coach training, executive coaching certification, and career coach certification create teach creating an opportunity for the client to experience coaching and then consider the benefits so that the client makes the choice about coaching.

At the Center for Coaching Certification, the coaching process begins with the 20-30 minute introductory session.  Certified Professional Coaches ask the client about them self, ask them about what they want, then explore barriers and options for overcoming barriers.  During the introductory session, the coach is focused completely on the client.  The Certified Professional Coach has a tool for recognizing and understanding different personalities in the moment.  The coach is aware of client language patterns and learning styles because it is the coach’s responsibility to adjust to the client in the moment.  This supports maximum benefit from the coaching engagement for the client.

Coaching Process and Coaching Certification

Different coach training programs use different processes. Some teach to simply ask the client to choose a topic and then brainstorm ideas with them. Others work like consultants and give an assessment, then decide priorities based on the results. Certified Professional Coaches with the Center for Coaching Certification learn a specific process, and learn that it is all about the client so it is essential to flex to the client.

One of the early considerations is whether the coach is working only on specific areas, typically job related, or whether the coach is working with the whole person. If the coach is working only on specific areas, it may be because an employer is paying for the coaching and they feel the time should be all about the work. The benefit of whole person coaching is that whatever is happening in an individual’s life does affect their work. After coaching certification, Certified Professional Coaches are prepared for both types of coaching.

The next consideration is whether the coaching is about business, life, career, or executive leadership. Often the question is asked whether the Center for Coaching Certification offers business coaching training, life coach training, executive coaching certification, or career coach certification. This ICF-approved coach training specifically trains on coaching. This means that the 11 Core Competencies of a Coach, as published by the ICF, are the focus. After completing the Certified Professional Coach training, the type of coaching is based on the individual coach’s experience, education, and areas of expertise.