Content
The complete training program is built upon 8 learning modules with 11 fields of topics. The 9 th module is the final examination to becoming a professional Business-Coach. The contents of the modules are built upon each other.
The following is a list of contents is a short overview of thematic contents. For more detailed information you can visit one of our information events or find more information in our program brochure.
Module 1
Personal point of view
- What is coaching?
- Core abilities of a coach
- Analysis of the participants present professional and personal situation
- Personality characteristics and Analyse
- Personal training aims within the context of the coaching program
Module 2
"Lower and upper deck" and the begin of the coaching process
- Different target groups and underlying expectations
- Reasons, topics and aims for coaching
- Groundwork and matching of clients and coach
- Design and documentation of the coaching process
- Role perception of client and coach
Module 3
Fitting diagnostics in different coaching settings
- Personality types and coaching
- Use of psychological diagnosis methods
- Including contacts and important relationships
- Basic assessment centers as the foundation of a coaching prosess
- Evaluation of outcome and success
Module 4
Toolbox: Objectives and main interventions
- The three main directions of coaching
- The most influential background, approaches and theories in coaching
- Confrontation and provocation: the faster way to change?
- Instruction and guidelines: Prohibited in coaching?
- Finding cognitive direction by learning concepts.
Module 5
Method pluralism and innovative approach
- What is systematic thinking and acting?
- Which contributions have been made by different psychological theories to coaching? (systemic approach, behavioural theory, gestalt theory, therapeutic approach)
- Integration of different psychological approaches and different coaching methods
- First application of an international focus to coaching
Module 6
Coaching in an international/intercultural context
- Values, rules and forms of behaviour in different cultures
- Coaching executives from different cultural back-grounds
- Leadership and communication in other cultures
- The coaching process as combination of personal and situational variables, values, rules, expectations, roles and goals
Module 7
Learning from errors and failures
- Personal strengths and weaknesses
- The self as an instrument to change
- Learning from errors
- Fascination of power, responsibility and non-responsibility, liberty and dependence
- Coaching as experience?
Module 8
The coach as entrepreneur
- Strategic questions: market, competition and positioning
- Questions on business management
- Marketing strategies for coaches and coaching
- Cooperation with colleges
- Membership in associations
Examination module
Assertified certificate as a professionel Business-Coach
- Live-coaching
- Oral examination
- Group-/team situation
- Development and presentation of a strategy/marketing concept