Coaching for Everyday Life training

Purpose: To share the skill of coaching with individuals to:

• Introduce a new way of journeying with, leading, and being in human relationships.
• Offer opportunities to practice using these basic skills in informal settings.

Description: This training has been created to equip individuals with the primary skills used by executive and life coaches: intense listening and high-powered question creation. Combining these two skills produces conversations that result in much richer output and more profound understanding between the participants. Once familiar with these coaching skills, they can be applied to any conversation, whether a response to a short text blast, a dinner table conversation, or an office chat. Your conversations with friends, family, co-workers, and team members will take on the characteristic of being supportive, non-aggressive, and non-judgmental, which ultimately builds solid and trusted relationships.

Expected outcomes:

• Listening for what the conversation partner wants (their goal)
• Understanding the limitations of closed-ended questions
• Ability to create questions that return a rich answer set
• Understanding the differences between coaching, mentoring, counseling, and consulting
• The ability to use a model “flow” of a conversation for better results
• Ability to help conversation partners identify actions they can take and how to measure success

The format of this training includes lectures, audio and video presentations, in-class exercises, and practice sessions where participants will try out some coaching skills in small group settings.

This course consists of three (3) two-hour sessions AND approximately two (2) hours of pre-class readings and homework across the three (3) weeks of training.

Thursdays -- February 6, 13, and 20 -- 10am-12noon Hawaii | 11am-1pm Alaska | 12noon-2pm Pacific | 1-3pm Mountain | 2-4pm Central | 3-5pm Eastern | 4-6pm Atlantic (Time zones may vary with Daylight Saving Time. We do our best to include other time zones as we understand them to be. Please double-check your time zone against the Central time noted. Times noted at the top of this page are in Central time.)

Cost = $250 per participant
* Includes a workbook (your choice of hard copy or PDF) - copyright pending

Trainer = TBA

There is a minimum of 6 students required to hold a training, and there will be a limit of 30 students per training. Registration will likely close one week prior to the start date of the course.

In order to receive a certificate for participation in this training:

• Mandatory "live" attendance for all 3 classes (they will not be recorded)
• Completion of pre-class readings AND homework
• Engagement with the trainer and other participants

Upon completion, your certificate will show International Coaching Federation (ICF) Continuing Coach Education (CCE) credits for 7 Core Competencies hours and 2 Resource Development hours.

Registration for this training is open to all adults. It neither requires an application process, nor is it part of any of the professional coach training pathways. To clarify, you will not be considered a trained or professional coach upon completion of this course. If you are interested in professional ICF-accredited faith-based coach training, please see our ELCA Segment 1 Basic Skills Coach Training options instead.