Co-Creative Alliance Programs

Intro to CFL

CFL Certification

CFL Train the Trainer

Programs

Why coaching?

One of the most satisfying human endeavors is helping other people achieve their personal best.

That’s what coaching is all about.

When we bring coach training into an organization we help the entire organization become its best.

We offer:

A 2-day introductory program: Introduction to Coaching for Leadership.
A 15-day, 125-hour professional certification program—built to the ICF’s ACTP standard: Coaching for Leadership Certification Program.
A 60-hour Train the Trainer Program so you can bring the Intro program
in-house.

We train leaders in coaching skills and we train coaches to coach for leadership at every level in the organization.

Coaching is a high-impact activity—it routinely delivers dramatic results for the client. Leadership is a high-leverage activity: Grow the leader and you impact the whole team. Coaching for leadership pairs the two for high impact and high leverage.

Does it last? Yes. We can help you create a coaching program that gets traction and has staying power. We do that by delivering an end-to-end solution.

We help companies become a place where everybody wants to work. This program can help your company create a leadership culture. A leadership culture happens when more and more people accept responsibility to forward the mission and vision of the organization.

A company full of leaders is the kind of place where everybody wants to work because it is full of purpose, shared responsibility, excellence, partnership, helpfulness, and pride in achievement.

“The notion of leadership has huge elitist connotations, but we need a populist connotation. My vision is to create 100 million new leaders. That’s not 100 million CEO’s, nor is it something that can be achieved next year. But it is a question of enabling many, many more people to provide leadership in their jobs — no matter what their jobs are.” ~ John P. Kotter, author The Heart of Change and Leading Change

Notes for All Courses

Learning styles
People learn differently. Some people must have theory, others will only learn through practice. We teach with a refined balance of lecture, discussion, one-on-one practice, and experiential exercises. Our courses work for willing students of any learning style.

Program intensity
These courses demand a lot from students, and we find a way to get the best effort from them. Because of this, we can deliver a better training result in a shorter period of time. Which means students can be back on the job and using their new skills much more quickly. ROI? Our clients get more effectiveness immediately. Because an intensive training style demands commitment from the student, we’ll work with your organization to select those students who are dedicated to learn and grow.

Buy-in and momentum
We work with you to create enthusiasm for these courses by delivering the shorter courses to the most appropriate level of the organizational chart. Once the right people see how coaching can work, they are more forthcoming in nominating their key players for professional training and they support them more enthusiastically through the process.

Training existing teams or groups
Although these courses are not designed with the primary goal of teambuilding, we guarantee substantial benefits to teams who take any of these courses as a group. In fact, the most frequent request of our students is to help them find a way to bring the training back to their entire team.

Teaching methodology
The teaching methodology addresses the learning styles of a diverse population. Consequently, we employ a variety of methods, including

Lecture. Offer paradigms, theories, perspectives, structures, tools.
Facilitated discussion. Encourage students to engage with the material and make it their own.
Demonstration. Show how to apply a particular skill or tool. Most demos are not role plays.
Isolated practice. Also referred to as skill drills, where we practice a particular skill with little regard for content or context.
Integral practice. Coaching in pairs, triads, or with whole group. Coaches apply a tool to a client’s real situation—the coaching is content and context-sensitive.
Application. Asking students to relate their learning from a lecture, demo, or practice to their current coaching practice or work situation.
Context, background, and references to other sources or fields of study for deeper work.
Supervision of entire coaching sessions (certification program only). Unsupervised practice with a coaching buddy.
Unsupervised practice coaching corporate clients.
Unsupervised reading.