Dreaming of Becoming a Coach? Turn Your Dreams into Reality
Coaching has become increasingly relevant to the success of businesses. It has also become a key leadership competency; with leaders at all levels who develop coaching skills driving higher levels of performance and revenue. Adding a coaching designation to the skills you already possess can open up new career opportunities for you. Is now the time for you to achieve the dream of becoming a coach?, If so, you might want to explore the options available to you at Global IOC.
Why Become a Coach?
A range of factors has contributed to the interest in developing business coaching capabilities. They include a VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous) world, the financial cost of not retaining employees, support for organizational change initiatives and support for development of employees. Coaching, with its emphasis on just-in-time, flexible, customized learning, is seen as a welcome contribution to an individual’s development portfolio.
In addition, the World Economic Forum has identified the 2022 Future Outlook on Work Skills which include innovation, complex problem solving, creativity, leadership, emotional intelligence and analysis and ideation in their list. The convergence of organizational needs along with talent requirements presents a unique opportunity for business coaches. Coaches who can demonstrate the value of coaching while delivering upon attraction, development, and retention of key talent, high levels of engagement and performance and reinforcement of learning are in high demand.
Pathways to Becoming a Coach at Global IOC
Global IOC offers three pathways to becoming a certified coach with the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches™ (WABC™). First, a foundational skill building class to introduce coaching skills at the associate level. Next, advanced skill building which integrates the core skills with new knowledge and coaching best practices. For those who have learned the core requirements from another group or in a variety of trainings, there is an assessment only track. With the assessment only process, you could leverage foundational skills learned to fast-track into an advanced program along with the designation. Finally, once you have completed the Advanced program you could bring the program to your own organization.
Build Foundational Skills
The Associate Coaching program leading to a Registered Corporate Coach™ (RCC™) designation provides participants with foundational coaching skills that address current and emerging needs within a business context. Participants will learn the Global IOC Coaching Model™ developed from the latest research in coaching. They will also learn coaching best practices that lead to more effective connecting, communicating, clarifying, championing and gaining commitment with clients. The program structure is a blend of virtual highly interactive sessions along with self-paced independent learning. One to one oversights with master certified faculty deepen and enhance the coaching practice.
Build Advanced Skills
For individuals and corporations who want to take their coaching skills beyond the foundational coaching level, Global IOC offers an Advanced Coaching program leading to a Certified Business Coach (CBC™) designation. This program provides participants with advanced coaching skills that develop the ability to coach in increasingly complex and challenging situations within a business context. Participants will learn the Global IOC Coaching Model™ developed from the latest research and best practices in coaching. Curriculum components include the selection and use of assessments in coaching, resources to advance coaching knowledge and practice leading to mastery and acceleration of client success, and a series of development resources to help coaches grow their own coaching business.
Leverage What You Have Already Learned
Two assessment only tracks allow individuals to leverage the knowledge and skills already acquired for either the (RCC™) designation or the (CBC™) designation. The Assessment Only Associate Business Coach Track is designed for professionals/coaches who have a foundational coaching designation and/or considerable experience with coaching and want the RCC™ designation. Candidates are required to provide evidence of past learning related to developing coaching skills, coaching practice as a business coach, and coaching supervision equivalent to a total of 75 hours. The Assessment Only Advanced Business Coach Track is for professionals/coaches who have an advanced coaching designation and/or coaching learning and experience commensurate with a total of 300 hours of business coaching practice, coaching competency development, and coaching supervision. Successful applicants will receive the (CBC™) designation. As both certifications require coaching supervision, Global IOC faculty can provide supervision for candidates who have not engaged in coaching supervision previously.
Bring Coaching to Your Organization
After a candidate has met the requirements for the Associate and Senior Registered Professional Coach programs, he or she is eligible to become faculty with Global IOC and deliver the Associate program to his/her organization. Attendance at a curriculum immersion session is mandatory. Candidates will then determine the amount of support needed to deliver the program to the candidate’s organization. Observation of initial facilitation of the program is required along with submission of attendee logs and annual reports.
The curriculum of the Global IOC Associate Business Coaching program content can be modified to meet the needs of the organization. The modifications must meet the learning outcomes of the curriculum and be approved by Global IOC prior to delivery.
All graduates who have successfully completed a Global IOC internal coaching program are eligible to receive the RCC™ designation.
For more information on Global IOC coaching programs, please go to www.globalioc.com