Coaching: New Skills and Opportunities

Coaching is an exciting and growing consulting field that provides the opportunity to have personal fulfillment and income by working with highly motivated and appreciative self-pay and business clients.

The coaching relationship is a collaboration designed to help clients identify and achieve goals that were previously out of reach, or take current accomplishments to new levels, leading to a better, more fulfilling and productive future. Coaching has been widely embraced by individuals, executives, entrepreneurs and within many corporations. Unlimited creative potential exists for coaching in the non-profit world as well.

This introductory workshop will teach you basic coaching skills and give you the experience of being coached and coaching others in a supportive environment. You will also have the opportunity to explore coaching as a new career or set of skills to integrate into your current work.

Through lecture, group discussion, and experiential work, you will learn:

• Fundamental coaching skills.
• How to determine if a coaching career is for you.
• How to start a coaching practice.
• Business practices.
• Basic marketing skills to promote your business.
• Ethical and legal issues.
• Niche coaching (corporate, non-profit, relationship).
• Typical conflicts and ambivalence about coaching.

You will also gain personal insight that will help you:

• Clarify your values and create a vision for your practice.
• Learn to create a strong personal foundation to achieve balance and fulfillment.
• Identify where you may be stuck and develop new tools to achieve breakthroughs.
• Turn goals and commitments into sustainable action.
• Be more effective in relationships and empower others.

This workshop is valuable for anyone who is interested in becoming a coach. Therapists, career counselors and outplacement professionals, in particular, can easily use coaching within their existing professions.

6.5 CEUs are available for social workers through NASW (# 886428312).

Fee: $189; $10 discount for early registrations (at least two weeks prior to event); $10 discount for group (two or more) registrations.

Design a strategic plan to put what you learn into practice and “hit the ground running” by registering for Your Best Year Yet personal strategic planning program. You will receive a $20 discount for both programs.

A 24-hour weekly teleclass training program is available for another 24 credit hours after the workshop.