Why you should become an ICF certified coach Coaching is a unique and distinct profession. Expert coaches help people to solve problems and reach goals quickly. They stay with their clients to work through inevitable changes and maintain a healthy balance between personal and professional life. Responsible coaches always strive to be ethical and consistent in delivering excellence for the trust their clients bestow on them. Sadly, the market is full of self-proclaimed expert coaches who neither have sufficient coaching experience, nor relevant knowledge. Therefore, more and more authentic coaches are applying for ICF credentials to distinguish themselves from the crowd. This article focuses on why you should become an ICF certified coach from above-mentioned perspectives. Please note: the intent of this article is to guide your understanding of what sets ICF certified coaches apart from other coaches. The focus of this article is restricted to just the reasons to become an ICF certified coach. In actuality, there are several factors that you must definitely consider before choosing a coach certification program. If you are someone who is contemplating becoming a certified coach, this article will drive you towards ICF credentials by listing several reasons why you should become an ICF certified coach. You can either choose to become an ICF credentialed coach or join an ICF approved program without opting for ICF credentials. In both cases, the integrated NLP Practitioner and Coach Training Program at NLP Coaching Academy will help you meet your desired outcomes. The program provides you to choose from different combo options – combo-I (NLP Practitioner certificate combo), combo-II (NLP Practitioner + ICF approved coach certificate option), and combo-III (ICF ACSTH hours with 10 hours mentoring towards ICF ACC level professional coach). Instructor-led Live ICF Certification program Our online ICF Coach Certification program is an Instructor-Led live program with evening flexible sessions, book reading assignments, peer coaching sessions, mentoring forum, Whatsapp discussions, and live mentoring sessions. Why you should become ICF certified coach Listed below are several reasons why you should become an ICF certified coach. ICF Credentials display your commitment and dedication to the coaching When you complete your ICF certification, you show the potential clients your commitment to the coaching ethos, and International...
Read MoreManaging bosses the NLP way If life were a movie, chances are that around one-fourth of the entire movie would involve office scenes in the case of a working professional. The quality of life in those scenes would largely depend upon the discretion of the director, the boss. Remarkably, the art of boss management is indispensable, and if you are looking for an answer How to manage your boss read further To your aid, internet is full of articles categorising bosses on the basis of work style and culture they weave around themselves. These articles seem to be the magic wand, almost ready to spread the pixie dust, hanging mid air, uncertain where to focus! Unless you figure out the blind spots, even pixie dust is useless. Unless you make an effort to know what you don’t know, you will never know what you don’t know and then you will not be able to work the situation out because you just don’t know what you don’t know. Sounds easy? May be not! Assuming you have a troubled relationship with your boss, you could think that your boss is a bad mix who does not appreciate or recognise you. Instead of validating this to be true, ask yourself in all honesty- Has there ever been a time when your boss heard you, trusted you, supported you, depended on you? What specifically makes you think that something is amiss? What will set things right? • Is there anyone who does not find your boss that difficult to deal with? You can model their strategy to manage the boss, and they can be of great help in getting some answers going for – How to manage your boss • What could you possibly change in yourself to help the relationship? • What is the first step? Be realistic with yourself. In case you conclude to work on your relationship further, replay the office scenes in slow motion inside your head and go over them like a curious child trying to make sense without judgments. Explore what is important to these characters, and how and why do they care deeply for something. Pay attention to what is being said, and how much of...
Read MoreBusiness Coach programs in India Here are some answers to FAQs around Business Coach programs in India, based on what prospective participants have been asking, when they are exploring for Business Coach certification in India: How to decide which program to attend when a person is searching for Business Coach programs in India? Any coaching program which is classroom-based or an online course. Classroom-based courses allow you to spend more time with Mentor Coaches and directly learn from their experience. You can ask questions, and get personalized attention with respect to your queries during the course. The learning goes beyond coaching skills, once you build rapport with the Mentor Coach, you can ask other questions also: How to build a Business Coaching Brand? How to get coaching clients? How to build a coaching business from the ground up? Online programs are useful if there is a constraint in terms of travel, location, distance, timings of attendance, and request for extra time post the program as well. So if your considerations are to ensure that you want flexibility for attending Business Coach certification in India, then go for online programs. Considering everybody is attending programs online, so you can go for Business Coach programs in India if you are looking for one. If you are searching for Business Coach programs in India, then, go with a coach who has been doing both: coaching + delivering training programs. Both require different skills. Someone who has been delivering training programs and is not coaching, won’t have the same amount of grip on the subject as the one who is doing both. So make sure that your coach trainer is also a coach. One-to-one coaching is more like sharpening your coaching saw. Each client is unique and provides a different learning experience for the coach as well. Third, make sure that the program is based on a Behavior-based framework. Well, honestly there are many coaching models, and NLP-based, Meta NLP one is the most impactful as it provides a person with skills with respect to the application of Behavior Change tools/frameworks. No other coaching model comes close to NLP when it comes to Coaching tools and frameworks. What is the procedure to become...
Read MoreThe Ultimate Cheat Sheet for NLP Neuro-Linguistic Programming or NLP is a psychological approach that is aimed at improving interpersonal and communication skills in individuals. The program emphasizes the link between the language used and how the mind works, and how this link will affect the behavior of a person and body. NLP can also be termed as a science of success, a study of achievement, or in short NLP is about modeling excellence. The purpose of this post is to provide the ultimate cheat sheet for NLP, which will be about different aspects of NLP training, and also about various Researchers in the past have modeled the thinking styles and behavior of successful people in the fields of sports, therapy, sales, personal development, business, and education. Neuro-Linguistic Programming was first introduced in the ’70s. The main aim of NLP was to create a model in terms of how excellence can be replicated easily. ‘Neuro’ means the way the body and mind interact. Linguistics (words spoken and non-verbal) gives insight into the thinking of a person. The signals can be read by watching the use of verbal communication very closely, and other non-verbal patterns which are unique to an individual. Programming is the study of behavioral and thinking patterns or mind programs, which can be used by people to bring desired changes in their life. The Ultimate Cheat Sheet for NLP provides a wide range of information: How to select an NLP Practitioner Program, benefits of NLP program, history of NLP, applications of NLP. Behavioral modification programming is used in various medical and therapeutic programs: Medical Physicians Psychiatrists Hypnotherapists General counselors NLP provides you an innovative way to understand others and yourself in any context. This helps a person in both, personal and professional aspects of life. Almost all organizations face the challenge of having both, mediocre employees and high achievers. NLP helps these high achievers to create a ‘model’ based on their habits, behaviors, and their thought processes, which brings them success. This process is known as modelling, which can be replicated and can easily be learnt by somebody else to achieve the same desired results. The language patterns of NLP are used in this situation to further...
Read MoreWhy Tony Robbins won’t get ICF accreditation? Recently there was a post on the internet, ‘Why Tony Robbins won’t get ICF accreditation?’ Not sure what the intention of the writer was? To demean Tony Robbins or to say that accreditations bodies are good? The writer got a lot of flak from Tony Robbins followers for dragging his name into coaching accreditation discussions. The larger point is does someone like Tony Robbins even care whether he will get accreditation or not? He is the most influential personality when it comes to Self Help, Business Coaching, and Peak Performance Coaching. He has been able to make drastic changes by Coaching and Training people through his Coaching and Seminars. He had a clear focus in terms of what he wanted to achieve, what difference he wanted to make, and worked towards that with utmost focus, determination, and managed to achieve what he has. But for someone who is thinking to become a coach, accreditation is an important question, as a new coach is not ‘Tony Robbins’, so they will have to think about accreditation, coaching methodology, and they are all valid thoughts and questions. Why Tony Robbins won’t get ICF accreditation? should not be your concern, because you must focus on better questions for yourself – How is ICF important, what ICF branding can get you, which is a good ICF Coach Program, how is ICF the gold standard of coaching, etc. People who generally are looking for coach certification programs have some of the following questions in their mind: 1) Which Coaching course to attend? 2) What is the difference between NLP Coach and other types of coaching courses? 3) Why is the cost of some of the Coaching courses so high? 4) Which Coaching course is better? Below mentioned are few tips in terms of the answers to the above-mentioned questions. Several Coaching methodologies are out there, you have to take a call based on what you want to get out of a particular coaching course: whether you want knowledge, whether you want a certificate, or whether you want accreditation, a particular kind of branding, and how much you are willing to spend in learning various coaching methodologies, getting certificates,...
Read MoreExecutive Coaching as an alternate career for Senior Executives There comes a point in every professional’s life when they feel that they are tired of the daily rut at work. It has been seen that there is a tendency among successful Executives to move towards Executive Coaching, Peak Performance Coaching, and Business Coaching as an alternate career track. Here one can leverage Business experience, Networking skills, as well as Sales and Marketing knowledge gained through corporate experience. Senior Executives have an added advantage – their natural tendency to get into good Rapport with their Coaching clients, as they would relate to the Life experiences of these high profile Coaches, who once were Senior Executives. This feeling of being an Entrepreneur, being in control of things, is what provides Satisfaction to such Senior Executives. Senior Executives have lot of things going in their favor when they take the first step towards becoming a Coach. Senior Executives are financially stable, and will have a financial cushion to sustain while they are establishing their brand in the market. Generally speaking, Senior Executives have a very good educational background, and that would provide a good starting point to create an impression with potential clients. They have very good interpersonal skills, considering they are successful in their corporate careers. They would have attended many networking events, and hence can easily leverage their existing network to set up a Coaching Brand. Senior Executives as a Coach would get buy in from Corporates to coach their Managers, Senior Manager, and Executives. Becoming a Coach is a very good option for Senior Executives to explore one’s entrepreneurial journey while still being employed full time in an organization, as one can avoid financial pressure that usually happens with start-ups with limited cash flow. A person can easily start as a part time Coach, and can utilize Personal Time after work and during weekends to get his/her feet wet and establish oneself as a Coach. This way a person gets enough experience before they take a call to quit their full time job, and become a full time Coach. It usually takes 3-4 years to establish oneself as a coach and gain recognition in the market. Also, this is...
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