Who Should Attend

• Leaders and senior managers who want to become coaches or add coaching to their overall leadership toolkit.
• Experienced coaches seeking to expand self-awareness and develop as a reflective coach practitioner.

Questions We Will Answer

• How can I leverage my personality traits and my preferences to be an excellent coach?
• In what ways could my personality and preferences interfere with coaching excellence?
• What does it mean to develop my "self-as-coach" competencies, and what should be my priorities?
• What is an individual learning plan, and how is it used in coaching for individual transformation?
• What are the differences between coaching, mentoring, consulting, advising, and therapy?
• What is a narrative identity, what roles can it play in coaching, and how can it accelerate individual development?

Benefits and Outcomes

Learn what is required to develop as a professional coach and receive one-on-one coaching about how to leverage your personality traits and preferences to be an excellent coach. By participating in this course, you will learn how to:

• Explain how personality and preferences might enhance or interfere with coaching excellence.
• Identify coaching competencies and which ones are developmental priorities for you.
• Create an individual learning plan to be used in coaching for individual transformation..
• Explain the differences between coaching, mentoring, consulting, advising, and therapy.
• Explain the role that narrative identity can play in coaching, and how it might be used to accelerate individual development.
• Identify personal values and their connections with ethical practice in coaching.

Earn Continuing Education Credit

• ELOC is recognized by the International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) and Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP. This program is valid for 15.5 PDCs for the SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP or 1.6 IACET ECUs.

Course Certificate Requirements

• Complete all online modules, assignments, and quizzes in the time allotted (all in Canvas LMS except where otherwise indicated):
• Coach Preparation Survey (in Qualtrics)
• Coaching Competency Self-Assessment
• Discovering Your Story Assignment
• Hogan Assessments (three surveys – or submit recent Hogan reports)
• Schedule and complete a 2-hour Hogan debrief meeting with an ELOC Coach Educator
• First draft of your Individual Learning Plan (ILP)
• Final draft of your Individual Learning Plan (ILP)
• ELOC Coach Educator approves final ILP