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Proficiency Coaching
Master the Language
(6 2.5 hour sessions; 15 hours total)
When the late Thomas Leonard taught the first Coaching Proficiencies Intensive it sent shock waves through the entire coaching industry. Never before - and never since - has the craft of coaching been so completely and inspiringly described. New coaches were immediately lifted to a level of quality beyond what their experience would dictate. And senior coaches - and LOTS of them participated in this - were shocked and delighted that there was a higher level of coaching in sight; and A LOT more to learn. It was a breath of fresh air; It still is.
The essence: Pattern Language. A Pattern Language is a set of phrases that bring an experience to life. In this program you will learn the language of the coaching craft and bring your coaching to life in a powerful way.
Find out what all of the fuss was about! Participate in this program.
(Included in Center for Coaching Mastery Level 2)
*This Course Qualifies for 15 ICF CCEU's
The Details
3 Key Points
1) Proficiency = Become a Better Coach
Become a Better Coach Quickly - and see an inspiring path to mastery
As you learn, study and practice each of these 15 qualities of masterful coaching you will notice the depth and effectiveness of your coaching expand. Your players will get better results and will conclude each session with a powerful yet subtle experience of being well-coached.
Your ability to create the experience of each of the 15 proficiencies in a coaching conversation is the benchmark of the CoachVille Certified Coach and the basis of the certification process for the Center for Coaching Mastery level 2.
2) Pattern Language
A pattern language is a phrase that brings an experience to life. To coach using the proficiencies you must understand the experiences that they represent. When you learn to recognize how they feel when you observe them you can more easily use them at just the right time and place in each coaching session. When you use the patterns properly, your coaching conversations will be full of life!
3) The Play Book
The Play book for this course - created by the late Thomas Leonard - is a masterpiece in writing and visual display. Each page is packed with coaching concepts that expand your capabilities and give you fresh ideas. You will find yourself reading and thinking about your players while getting lots of great ideas for your next sessions.
The 15 Proficiencies
Coaching Proficiency #1 Engage in Provocative Conversations
Coaching Proficiency #2 Reveals the Client to Themselves
Coaching Proficiency #3 Elicits Greatness
Coaching Proficiency #4 Enjoys the Client Immensely
Coaching Proficiency #5 Expands the Clients’ Best Efforts
Coaching Proficiency #6 Navigates Via Curiosity
Coaching Proficiency #7 Recognizes the Perfection In Every Situation
Coaching Proficiency #8 Hones In On What Is Most Important
Coaching Proficiency #9 Communicates Cleanly
Coaching Proficiency #10 Shares What Is There
Coaching Proficiency #11 Champions the Client
Coaching Proficiency #12 Enters New Territories
Coaching Proficiency #13 Relishes Truth
Coaching Proficiency #14 Designs Supportive Environments
Coaching Proficiency #15 Respects the Client’s Humanity
The Themes
1) Proficiencies for Expanding Greatness
2) Proficiencies for Expanding Trust
3) Proficiencies for Expanding Credibility
4) Understanding the Power of Pattern Language
The GAME!
In each class you will...
a) Engage in a lively discussion about the topic of the day
b) Observe a real coaching session
c) Coach a classmate and be coached in YOUR game
Each week between classes you will play a fun and challenging game
where you earn points for:
1) answering questions about what you have learned
2) completing exercises that help you become a better coach
3) playing BIG in your own life
4) conducting coaching sessions
5) acquiring feedback letters from your players
6) staying in contact with your player/coach
7) supporting your team mates
8) making a BIG WIN happen in your life
Center for Coaching Mastery Students need a minimum number of points to graduate
You will be able to trade in your points for rewards at LifeVille.com! Awesome.
How this program will make you a better coach
1) You will dramatically increase your confidence as you learn the coaching language that will bring aliveness to your coaching conversations
2) You will be inspired to pursue mastery as a coach because the proficiencies provide a clear path
3) Practicing each proficiency with your coaching sessions is really fun and rapidly expands your range of options for how to approach situations.
4) When your coaching comes to life you are energized and your efforts become more sustainable.
Peer Reviews
Nina Miöen
All of the proficiencies are fantastic! They touch my heart so much! I got a feeling of getting a bit closer to the true meaning of life. This is something I been looking for...And Gloria explaining the proficiencies is great! I am learning more and more from life, such as to look at the bigger picture. Don’t ask WHY; try to look for the greater truth of the situation. It feels like I am really aligned with these proficiencies.
William Harley
I have a client who is out of work and has been facing a lot of adversity. When we met this past week, I focused on "Respecting the Client’s Humanity" and it clearly deepened our relationship and freed him to talk about and "go through the forest" of frustration he has been experiencing. On the other side of it, he moved towards actions he wanted to take without any prompting from me.
Maria Åberg
The most intriguing part of the class was when we talked about the proficiency “designs supportive environments” and the concept that the environment will always win. Everything can be seen as environment, it is truly important for me to design inner and outer environments to get flow and reach my goal with minimal effort. By thinking and acting in those terms everything will be much easier and fun in my life. I really look forward joining the teleclass Environmental Design.
Super Details
The 15 Coaching Proficiencies
Coaching Proficiency #1 Engage in provocative conversations
Coaching sessions are generally short. By hearing what the client is saying and not saying, by questioning what you hear, by asking the right questions, pressing for clarity, and by sharing what you know and how you feel, provocative conversations can occur within minutes, not months. Join us for an hour long discussion on what it means to be provocative and how you can start being provocative with your clients.
Coaching Proficiency #2 Reveals the Client to Themselves
The more aware anyone is, the better choices they can make for themselves. Part of what Certified Coaches do with clients is to help them discover their gifts, talents, wants, values, needs and dreams, as well as come to understand what what motivates and inspires them. The result? A well-informed client, quickly moving forward on their path of self-awareness. During this hour long call you will see what works and what does not when revealing the clients to themselves.
Coaching Proficiency #3 Elicits greatness
Who else is trained to be proficient in this, but the Certified Coach? And, while it is true that few clients come to a coach and specifically ask that we bring out and develop this greatness, this is what we do naturally when we ask the client to think and act bigger, and by challenging the client to continually raise their own bar and standards.
Coaching Proficiency #4 Enjoys the Client Immensely
How is enjoying the client a proficiency? Simple. Because when you enjoy the client in their entirety (including their upsides and downsides), high levels of trust naturally occur. And the benefit of that? Clients naturally take more risks and move forward more quickly because they know you are totally there for them. When the coach is at this place with a client, the coaching is collaborative and light, not heavy. Join us for a lively one hour discussion on how to enjoy your clients immensely. We will roll play examples of what works and what to avoid.
Coaching Proficiency #5 Expands the Clients’ Best Efforts
One of the reasons clients hire a coach is to support them to do more in a shorter period of time than they would do on their own. Hence, the coach acts as both a catalyst and accelerant. By supporting the client to do more than they have done or think that they are capable of doing, significant value is added. We will show you examples of how to expand the clients best efforts and teach you when to know if you have gone too far.
Coaching Proficiency #6 Navigates Via Curiosity
The coach who is naturally curious can be well guided by that curiosity. After all, coaches are in the discovery business and how can you help the client find new and better ways of doing things, if you are not curious? And the real benefit of curiosity is that it leads to learning for both the coach and client. Join a lively discussion of what it looks like to navigate via curiosity, vs. the traditional method of navigating via interrogation.
Coaching Proficiency #7 Recognizes the Perfection In Every Situation
One way of looking at life is to believe that everything happens for a perfectly good reason, even if we cannot always see or know that reason within our own lifetime. The point here is to look for and find how a clients event, problem, situation or trait is perfect, even if it is clearly not. Seeking to understand and recognizing perfection first, instead of offering tips, techniques and solutions as a knee-jerk reaction, is what you will be taught during this hour long call.
Coaching Proficiency #8 Hones In On What Is Most Important
Depending on the day, hour or even minute, what is most important to the client will change. Such is the nature of individuals in a high-growth phase of their lives. You will learn to recognize this moving target and be flexible enough to adjust the coaching to be effective in this new terrain.
Coaching Proficiency #9 Communicates Cleanly
This should be obvious, yes? After all, the cleaner the communication, the less that gets in the way of great coaching. That said, most of us have stuff in our communication style, which slows down the super-conductive nature of the coaching process. Masterful coaches have worked to clean up the stuff that can get in the way of effective coaching. What kind of stuff? Everything from biases, judgments, unmet needs, shoulds, coulds, to singularity, vicariousness, agendas, arrogance and fears. It can all be cleaned. Join us for a one hour call on cleaning up your communication style.
Coaching Proficiency #10 Shares What Is There
Clients rely on our observations, intuition and even our inklings to help move them forward in life. Hence, the more often, and easily, a coach can share what they see, feel and hear, the more value that can be created for that client. It is often the tiniest, most subtle inklings that can act as powerful beacons and catalysts to the clients life or business.
Coaching Proficiency #11 Champions the Client
The more often, and deeply, the coach champions their client at all levels (including their actions, progress, dreams, traits, commitments, gifts and qualities), the more encouraged the client feels and the more likely they are to succeed. For the coach to merely be encouraging is not enough; there is a much higher level of support generated when the coach operates at the championing level, which is where the Certified Coach operates.
Coaching Proficiency #12 Enters New Territories
The Certified Coach expands the clients thinking by weaving in new concepts, principles and distinctions during the coaching session, and also by inviting the client to experiment with new models, ways of doing things, and even to identify new goals or outcomes. Clients do not usually ask the coach for this, but these are key ways that value is created for the client.
Coaching Proficiency #13 Relishes Truth
This may sound obvious, and it is deeper than that. After all, truth is a level above mere honesty, as in there is always a truth about a situation, person or event that, when discovered and articulated, can transforms ones life or business. Certified Coaches have come to enjoy and orient around truth as a source of joy and guidance. Join us for a one hour discussion on how to start relishing truth with your clients.
Coaching Proficiency #14 Designs Supportive Environments
Success, not to mention personal evolution, becomes sustainable when there are environments and failsafe structures that support it. After all, who wants to rely on fortitude and willpower to get things done or to develop oneself? Enter the Certified Coach who has been specifically trained in helping the client to design and install these environments.
Coaching Proficiency #15 Respects the Client’s Humanity
We all have limits, both internal and external, and as much as coaching is about maximizing potential and opportunities, we are all human and the Certified Coach respects this. Success without stress is what we are all after and by recognizing limits and appreciating different paths to achievement, the client is both individually and universally respected.
The Themes
1) Proficiencies for Expanding Greatness
Learning and using these proficiencies will help you to reliably expand the greatness in each person that you coach. Hey that’s your job! Greatness is a state of being present in everyone not something to be achieved. This is the distinction greatness vs. the greatest. Greatness is the state that coaches help their players reclaim.
2) Proficiencies for Expanding Trust
Learning and using these proficiencies will help you to reliably expand the trust between you and each person that you coach. Trust is essential to the coaching experience. Trust is earned over time and there are specific ways to accelerate the process. The experience of trust means that the player KNOWS that the coach is on his or her side.
3) Proficiencies for Expanding Credibility
Learning and using these proficiencies will help you to reliably expand the credibility you have with your player. Credibility means that your player KNOWS that you know what you are talking about - that you know the game and that they are in good hands with you by their side.
4) Understanding The Power of Pattern Language
The concept of Pattern Language was originally developed by the architect / philosopher Christopher Alexander. The idea is that through specific language you can make an experience come alive. When an experience is alive it has the power to uplift everyone in the experience. The 15 proficiencies are the language patterns that make the experience of coaching - and playing - come alive. Here is a brief quote from Christopher Alexander's Seminal Book " A Timeless Way of Building".
"There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named.
The search which we make for this quality, in our own lives, is the central search of any person, and the crux of any individual person's story. It is the search for those moments and situations wen we are most alive...
The specific patterns out of which a building or a town (our note: or a coaching conversation) is made may be alive or dead. To the extent they are alive, the let our inner forces loose, and set us free; but when they are dead, they keep us locked in inner conflict."
In this program you will learn the pattern language of coaching so that your coaching sessions will be full of life!
Registration
Invest: $445 (or 2 payments of $234)
Proficiency Coaching
Wednesdays 2PM ET - 4:30PM ET
Sep 29, Oct 6, 13, 20, 27 Nov. 3; 2010
Instructor: Terri Zelenak, PCC
Wednesdays 8PM ET - 10:30PM ET
Sep 29, Oct 6, 13, 20, 27 Nov. 3; 2010
Instructor: Gloria Auth, PCC
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