Leadership and Coaching Certification Program

In the Coaching for Excellence program I felt so empowered and respected. I have been provided so many great tools to create my own coaching practice. I always go away from each conference thinking that you've thought of everything!"

Deborah Jones
BRE Properties

If you are seeking a new career or
you are set on improving your team's effectiveness

Coaching for Excellence
Leadership Effectiveness and Coaching Certification

Whether you are seeking a new career as a professional coach or are a business leader set on significantly improving your team and your organization’s bottom line, Coaching for Excellence will give you the tools and skills you need to succeed.

Features
Conferences Dates* and Location

How You will Learn

Your Trainers
Ontological Coaching
Benefits
Testimonials
Certification
The Application Process

Who Should Attend

Those interested in a career as a professional business coach
or life coach

Those in leadership position including CEOs, business owners, executives, managers, mentors, human resources professionals, sales professionals, sales professionals and team leaders.

Features

Nine-month program with four three-day conferences

Interactive, experiential training

Coaching certification

Accelerated, brain-based learning strategies

Weekly coaching during the entire nine months

Trainers with over 50 years experience

Ontological coaching and neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) models

On-going support to maintain learning during and after the program

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Conferences Dates for 2012 and Location

January 14, 15, 16
April 21, 22, 23
July 11, 12, 13
October 11, 12, 13

Conferences are held in Mexico City, Mexico.

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How You will Learn
In these nine months of life-altering learning, we take your needs as an adult learner very seriously. Coaching for Excellence is designed to have you excel! We provide you with an in-depth array of tools, techniques and skills that you need to be able to impact others powerfully.

The core of Coaching for Excellence is the four conferences you will attend. These three-day events are spread over the length of the course, providing the foundation for a profound experience in personal or business coaching and leadership.

In between conferences, you will practice your new-found skills, receive valuable insights and feedback from an experienced, professional coach and have access to the trainers on a regular basis.

Coaching for Excellence is designed for you to have a quantum shift in your life, training you as a leader and transforming the quality of your life and your organization.

Brain Based Learning Strategies
We concentrate on interactive learning, scientifically proven to be the most effective model for adults to gain knowledge and, more importantly, retain it. Our trainers are skilled in neuro-based technologies, so they know how to engage keys areas of your brain so that you learn best.

Opportunities to maximize and integrate what you discover are built into the program. You will constantly interact with our dedicated, professional coaches and highly experienced trainers, as well as your fellow students. Through discussions, small group work, interactive exercises, practice sessions, personal reflection (and a very few lectures), you will experience training in a whole new way – as challenging, insightful and fun!

Between conferences you keep learning

While the conferences give you the information you need, you will continue to grow and expand throughout the program. With an enhanced curriculum that continues between conferences, coaching and monthly teleconferences with your trainers, you will learn at an exponential rate.

You will also have intensive, hands-on experience coaching real clients with real goals and desires. Using our unique coaching methods, you will practice the skills to understand and build the coaching relationship so that your clients make swift progress toward what they say is important to achieve. Along the way, you will receive directed coaching to help you coach effectively. By the end of the program, this developmental framework will increase your ability to carry out effective coaching so that you can use it immediately.

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Trainers that are simply the best
Sue Hawkes and Bettie Spruill have over 50 years combined experience in training and professional coaching. They are the creators of Ontological Mindful Ecological (OME) coaching and are widely known for their outstanding training and facilitation experience.

Masters of the ontological coaching model, Bettie and Sue will expertly guide you to a deep understanding and skillful use of our unique methodologies.

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Ontological Coaching Model

Ontological Coaching is about mastering universally effective techniques for changing limiting beliefs and thereby eliminating unwanted behaviors and patterns.

Ontological coaching techniques are applicable for executive or life coaching and organizational consulting. Ontological coaching is based on a practical understanding of how our worldview impacts on human behavior, relationships and accomplishments, which are critical to leadership and management performance.

You will discover new ways to identify and tap into another person’s “worldview” so you can respond more effectively and assist them in having superior results.Our “worldview” is indicative of our deep levels of perception and ingrained behavior patterns that can inadvertently block us from moving forward, not only limiting our effectiveness, but also robbing us of the opportunity of a richer and more meaningful existence.

This differs greatly from the more common approach, performance coaching, in that it is designed to first alter deeply held beliefs and as a result, change behavior. (Performance coaching, on the other hand, deals primarily with goals and actions and does not always address the beliefs that drive the behavior, a distinction that can make all the difference in successful coaching.)

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Program Benefits

In a world of constant and relentless change, we are faced with the challenge to continually re-invent ourselves so that we can successfully adapt. Ontological Coaching supports people to become more powerful observers, capable of not only taking more effective action, but also to be more self-generating and flexible.

Personal and professional benefits of ontological coaching:

Greatly enhanced self-understanding and self-assurance

More resourceful ways of looking at issues and circumstances

Improvements in the quality of thinking and decision-making

Significantly enhanced leadership capability

Improved communication and the ability to be positively influential, especially in dealing with challenging circumstances and people

An expansion of the capacity to have constructive conversations that build productive relationships and highly collaborative practices

Substantial improvement in well-being and reduction of stress

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Certification
Our goal is to train our students to be disciplined coaches who adhere to high ethical standards and uphold rigorous practices and skills.

Based on knowledge and skills derived from research, education and training at a high level, we prepare our students to use this body of knowledge powerfully in the interest of others.

The practices and tools we teach are backed by robust and coherent theory. The intellectual foundation of Ontological Coaching (existential philosophy, philosophy of language and the biology of cognition) provide this. This serves as a solid foundation for the development of a highly competent coaching practice.

Besides the regular class work and practices, those who seek certification also complete additional testing and interviews before being approved for certification Once certified, you are then eligible to apply to our Brokered Coaches program through which we refer clients to you.

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The Application Process
Coaching for Excellence is an intensive program that requires full participation and commitment. We are seeking only those students who are willing and able to fully commit their time and energy to completing the program.

Your deposit of $1000 and a completed application is the first step in determining your suitability. We may choose to accept you into the program based solely on the information in the application or we may need a follow-up telephone call with you. You will be notified in either case.

Should you be turned down for the program, your deposit will be refunded in full. If you are accepted, your deposit then becomes non-refundable but is transferable to another program. Be sure to read the Transfer and Cancellation Policies in the Application.

Your tuition needs to be paid in full by September 1, 2009 or a Payment Plan must be arranged prior to this date.

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Testimonials

"I learned more about leading people in the first conference of the Coaching for Excellence Program than in my entire MBA at Rutgers University." Paul Dzubner - Vice President, Green Mill Restaurants

"When I started Coaching for Excellence I was looking forward to finding answers. Now that I have completed the program, I am more interested in being in inquiry and asking powerful questions." Sara Manuel, Certified Effectiveness Coach, Alethea Enterprises, LLC