Coach Training Isn't Just For Sessions or Crucial Conversations!

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Love the picture above! Everyone is served via coaching:)

Yes, some of our trainees have set up coaching practices.

Others have "hung up a shingle" and launched a side hustle offering coaching sessions.

But for the most part, our trainees use coaching in their current roles and relationships.

Here are a few of the most common spaces in which coaching culture is used:

Pastors or Ministry Leaders use it pastorally to make disciples, not enable dependents.
Business Leaders implement it in their one-on-ones and in passing conversational check-ins.
Small Group Leaders engage in partnering with their group members as they walk out their personal journeys.
Parents can use it with little ones as well as with adult children. With littles, parents teach them to grow in confidence and understand the consequences of their decisions. With adult children, the choices are broader, but the outcomes are very much the same - instilling confidence and assistance in weighing the consequences.
Marriages are enhanced when spouses don't feel pressure to solve each other's problems.
Siblings, friends, and neighbors can use it to truly care without carrying another's problems.
Children of aging parents can use coaching to honor their parents and their decision-making process as they grow older.
Coaching concepts can also enhance casual or passing conversations with people you don't see often, or strangers you may never see again.

So, there you have it. I can't think of a single type of person whose conversations wouldn't improve by adopting a coaching culture.

Who doesn't love feeling truly heard? Coach training offers active listening tools that can be used to really hear what is going on for another.

Who wouldn't benefit from empowering questions? Questions offer the gift of "Aha" moments. They range from questions about future goals and core values to making action steps.

Coaching rarely comes naturally, but coach training can take your conversations to the next level of care and impact!

Where could you use conversational coaching?

Coach training comes in multiple forms.

Video coach training - all the Coaching Culture video teachings with an interactive workbook.

Life Coach Certification - a full course with peer partner sessions with a rarely seen 2:1 ratio of trainees to facilitators, includes personal coaching sessions, and coaching assessments.

Leadership Coach Certification - all the above, plus this option is for those who have direct reports and would like to incorporate coaching there as well

Coach Training Isn't Just For Sessions or Crucial Conversations!

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