Coaching: New Skills for a New Time

Coaching is an exciting and growing consulting field that provides "solopreneurs" (consultants, therapists, health care and wellness providers) the opportunity to have personal fulfillment and income by working with highly motivated and appreciative self-pay and business clients, and provides small businesses the ability to learn how to manage and motivate their workforce with powerful, proven skills and techniques used by large corporations. This program has, in fact, been approved by the Massachusetts Department of Workforce Development to be eligible for 50% reimbursement (Course # 1068378) if applied for 45 days in advance but due to state funding shortages that program is temporarily on hold.

(If you prefer, we can tailor the training and bring it to your workplace.).

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:

• The 7 Fundamental Coaching Skills.
• How to integrate coaching into your existing work or start a new career path.
• Ethical and legal issues in coaching.
• Niche coaching.
• Marketing basics.
• How to get started.

You will also gain personal insight that will help you:

• Clarify your values
• 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 or using coaching in their existing profession. Business consultants, small business owners, therapists, nurses and other health care professionals, sales and other managers, career counselors and outplacement professionals, in particular, can benefit from using coaching within their existing professions.

10 CEUs for social workers, nurses and other mental health professionals are available in conjunction with Commonwealth Seminars. If other than social work, you MUST notify us in advance that you will be requesting CEs.

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 at https://www.bestyearyet.com/BYYO/Start.html#. Enter our code #197.

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