Overview:
Description: Training continues to evolve, just as humans, business, and the coaching profession will continue to evolve. The Coaching profession is changing and clients are becoming more sophisticated in what they want -- and expect -- from coaches and coaching. Increasingly, clients -- whether political, government, corporate or personal -- are asking for coaching that focuses on their specific situation, need or opportunity. As a result, the Coach's success is determined by how well they are equipped to provide a unique and customized program that meets the client’s specific requirements. In this Shadow Coaching™ training we will discuss ways to develop your knowledge and expertise. You will have a built-in system to keep up with what's emerging -- all included in your tuition that covers your coach-training needs.
Our program is intensive. Our training is designed to meet current needs being expressed by the community of graduate coaches and to bring forward our latest models, frameworks and Shadow Coaching™ material in support of integration and evolution of graduate learning.
This training will be challenging, will stretch you as a coach and help you grow in your field of practice. Our commitment is to accept participants into the program who have the interest, capacity, resourcefulness, skill, and desire to become masterful executive Coaches.
Our students are already trained, but want advanced training - so they start
with an Executive Coaching Program, or equivalent training, and move on to the
SOSC to strengthen and hone their skills in Coaching.
Our students are seasoned coaching professionals, not beginners, who have met
the training requirements.
Optional Scheduled Bridge Calls
Not only will you have the benefit of the expertise of your class leaders, but the brainstorming capacity of attendees who want to share challenges, victories and examples of their progress.
Approximately Six Months to One Year Later...
We offer an optional refresher day. Call it a Grad Basic. We get back to basics from the perspective of a graduate who has lived the tools they’ve learned.
What is Shadow Coaching™?
Shadow Coaching™
is a particular advanced application of reflective and observational coaching
that provides one way for clients to go below the surface into the core dynamics
of a situation, illuminating the truth of the moment and making decisions that
move people forward.
Shadow Coaching™ is a real time learning approach in developing
a refined
self-awareness and capabilities in the workplace as
a result of reflection on practice. It enables people, not only to benefit from
the continuous presence of an observing coach over an extended period of time in
a typical set of workdays, but also develops their own role as self-observer for
the long term. It teaches clients to become reflective practitioners.
Shadow Coaching™ is observational, situational, in ‘real-time’, fast-paced
coaching--two minds working as one increasing awareness and implementing change
on the spot.
This type of coaching is ideally suited to organizational leaders who must make
decisions and act adaptively in intense work environments. Shadow coaching
involves partnering with clients in their work environments and brings another
experienced and fresh perspective that helps to identify problematic dynamics,
work habits and assumptions that impede effectiveness. Within Shadow Coaching™
is the competency of Laser Coaching™ which involves being able to provoke the
leader’s awareness of these problematic features in ways that they can be
addressed immediately. It goes beyond support to problem solving.
Shadow Coaching™ attends to the individual, social, relational and environmental
aspects of the client's ‘world’. It creates seismically altering change.
Who is the training primarily designed for?
The content has been designed for:
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Coaches who understand the value in staying ahead of the rapidly evolving process of coaching
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Coaches who are curious about ‘what's next? in coaching.
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Coaches who understand the personal and professional benefit of being intellectually and emotionally stimulated, often in surprising ways.
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Coaches who want to evolve in their coaching practices.
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The risk taker
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Coaches who can think on their feet.
Who is the training not designed for?
This training is progressive and collaborative in nature, rich in content yet
complemented by weaving in the thinking and experience of those attending. Given
the progressive focus of this training, we are guessing that the following types
of coaches would not find the training to be a high-value experience:
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Coaches who believe there is only 'one way' to coach
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Coaches who would prefer that the traditional formats and processes of coaching remain as they have been
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Coaches uncomfortable with a collaborative-type format
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Coaches who are beginners and just finding their way in the profession
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Coaches who haven’t had basic and medium-level coach training
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Coaches who haven’t had a variety of client experience to draw from
Individuals with low energy levels
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