Coach EDUCATION
Business Coaching Advantage™ Program
A High-Impact Program for Professionals who Support Leaders
The Business Coaching Advantage™ Certification Program is a comprehensive and intensive learning experience that develops core coaching knowledge and skills, as well as the crucial stances and mindsets required for effective coaching in today’s world of constant change.
THE PROGRAM IS IDEAL FOR:
- A human resources business partner, organizational development consultant, learning specialist or internal advisor
- An internal coach or external professional coach
- A specialist consultant who wants to integrate coaching into your services
- A leader with a significant focus on coaching and developing other leaders
- …and you want to enhance your coaching capabilities
WHAT YOU WANT TO GAIN:
- Skills and Competencies to help leaders see beyond the obvious, think forward and act under dynamic circumstances, to lead and execute through times of unprecedented change
- Confidence in yourself as a trusted creative thinking partner to support your clients
- Credibility through professional coach training grounded in leading edge coaching and leadership development theory
- Certification of your training to share and advertise your new qualification.
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Two programs make up the Business Coaching Advantage Certification Program™ Together they provide a comprehensive and intensive learning experience that develops core coaching knowledge and skills, as well as the crucial stances and mindsets required for effective coaching in today’s world of constant change both in a business and leadership context.
The Business Coaching Advantage™
COACHING ESSENTIALS Program
is a stand-alone first level program focused on coaching essentials for people who want to enhance their ability to coach in the organizational context and earn an internationally recognized credential.
BCA Coaching Essentials is a 4 to 6-month program that introduces you to the essentials of leadership coaching through a highly interactive and experiential approach, enabling you to gain a deep understanding of what it means to lead and the confidence to inspire your own leaders to meaningful action.
The Business Coaching Advantage™
COACHING ADVANCED Program
is a program for people with previous coaching training and experience who want to deepen and enrich their learning about coaching in the business/leadership context and also be on a learning path towards additional professional credentials with the ICF.
The Business Coaching Advantage Advanced Program is a high-intensity learning experience that enhances your coaching knowledge, approach, and skills, enabling you to coach at an even higher professional level.
Pre-requisites: Coaching Essentials and/or previous coach training and experience.
More About The Business Coaching Advantage™
COACHING ESSENTIALS Program
The Business Coaching Advantage Coaching Essentials Program is an ICF Level 1 Program.
Graduates of this program meet the training mentoring and performance evaluation requirements for the ICF ACC credential.
The program provides:
- in depth coverage of a coach approach to supporting and developing leaders in a business context.
- an introduction to the unique and practical Coaching Advantage™ integrative framework of the five key components essential for leadership coaching.
- coverage of the core coaching skills to enable you to effectively integrate the essential components into business coaching conversations.
- is highly interactive and engaging.
- that blends exposure to frameworks, models, tools and skills with engaging experiential activities and practice.
- includes self-directed study, allowing for paced learning and deeper exploration.
- provides peer coaching practice, supervision and mentoring that reinforce integration of learning in practice and application of learning in your coaching context.
- transformative experience at both a personal and professional level.
- focused learning that helps you gain confidence, capability and competence.
- shifts occur at several levels, including shifts in you: Intentions, Attention, Mindset, Behaviors and Practices, and Skills.
- provides peer coaching practice, supervision and mentoring that reinforce integration of learning in practice and application of learning in your coaching context.
The program contains 2 courses to complete:
- Core Skills Course: 3 full-day in-person OR 6 virtual half-days of coursework (interactive) + 3 practice labs + 2 mentor sessions for solid grounding in business coaching fundamentals
- Credential Course: 9 practice labs + 2 mentor sessions w/ written feedback, to further skill development and complete training requirements for ICF ACC credential
After submission of the Learning Portfolio, faculty will complete the evaluation process for ICF ACC credential with participants
FALL 2024
Core Skills Course
Fully virtual option
6 half-days of coursework (interactive) + 3 virtual practicum sessions
Coursework dates: Sept 26, Oct 10, 17, 24, 31, Nov 7, 2024 (Thurs, 9am-12:30pm EST)
Virtual Practicum: Nov 14, 21, 28, 2024 (Thurs, 9am – 11am EST)
Hybrid option – in person & virtual
3 in-person coursework sessions + 3 virtual practicum sessions
In-Person Coursework: Oct 16, 17, 18, 2024 (9am – 5pm EST)
Virtual Practicum: Nov 14, 21, 28, 2024 (Thurs, 9am – 11am EST)
Credential Course
Fully virtual only
9 practice labs + 2 mentor sessions w/ written feedback, assignments, ACC evaluation process
Practice lab dates: Dec 5, 12, 19, 2024, and Jan 9, 16, 23, 30, Feb 6, 13, 2025 (Thurs, 9am – 11am EST)
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SPRING 2025
Core Skills Course
Virtual Delivery
6 half-days of coursework (interactive) + 3 virtual practicum sessions
Coursework dates: Feb 27, Mar 6, 13, 20, 27, Apr 3, 2025 (Thurs, 9am-12:30pm EST)
Virtual Practicum: Apr 10, 17, 24, 2025 (Thurs, 9am – 11am EST)
Credential Course
Fully virtual only
9 practice labs + 2 mentor sessions w/ written feedback, assignments, ACC evaluation process
Practice lab dates: May 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, June 5, 12, 19, 26, 2025 (Thurs, 9am – 11am EST)
SPRING 2025
Full Program
Early Bird Bundle Price (BCA Core Skills Course + Credential Course): $7,795 CAD + HST
(if you register > 30 days before start date, regular $8,670)
Core Skills Course Only
Fully virtual option
Early Bird Price: $3,495 CAD + HST
(if you register > 30 days before start date, regular: $3,845)
Hybrid option – in person & virtual
Early Bird Price: $3,795 CAD + HST
(if you register > 30 days before start date, regular: $4,145)
Credential Course Only
Fully virtual only
Early Bird Price: $4,450 CAD + HST
(if you register > 30 days before start date, regular: $4,825)
More About The Business Coaching Advantage™ Program
COACHING ADVANCED Program
The Business Coaching Advantage Advanced Program is an ICF Level 2 Program.
Graduates of this program meet the training mentoring and performance evaluation requirements for the ICF PCC credential.
The overall learning intentions for the Advanced program are to:
- Develop capacity to more clearly see the potential that is available in each conversation, and then to equip
coaches to stretch themselves and their clients to realize more of that potential. - Expanding coaches’ perspectives on the range of conversations that are possible with clients, given the topics that
they bring forward. - Build on the conversation frames, models and tools introduced in BCA Coaching Essentials, adding new
perspectives and ways of thinking about coaching conversations. - Explore ways we can more skilfully include more of our client’s worlds – inner and outer – in our coaching
conversations - Elevate coaching skills and competencies; using the skills and competencies in a more integrated and coherent
way so that each skill enhances and elevates the impact of the other. - Focus on the coach’s quality of presence and how this underpins all the other coaching competencies.
The learning in the program is organized around five distinct, yet interdependent, streams of learning:
- Conversation
- Knowledge-base
- Process Knowledge
- Self as reflective practitioner
- Integrative practice
The program blends content with extensive hands-on practice with feedback and reflection. As you already know, what you gain from a learning opportunity like this depends on what you put into it. Moreover, your active participation helps set the stage for the level of learning of everyone in the group. Our invitation as you step into BCA Advanced is to do so fully, bringing and giving of yourself, in service of your own and other learning.
Completing all program elements successfully earns you the Business Coaching Advantage Certified Coach™ (BCACC™) designation. It also means you are a graduate of an ICF Level 2 program and can apply for your ICF PCC (Professional Certified Coach) Credential.
The learning in the BCA Advanced program is organized in two main parts – content and hands-on practice.
The program blends content with extensive hands-on practice with feedback and reflection. As you already know, what you gain from a learning opportunity like this depends on what you put into it. Moreover, your active participation helps set the stage for the level of learning of everyone in the group. Our invitation as you step into BCA Advanced is to do so fully, bringing and giving of yourself, in service of your own and other learning.
Coursework:
10 Week Virtual Classes
Six content modules with opportunities for practice. (2 hrs. per week)
Practicum:
Skills Development: 8 group mentoring labs offering intensive coaching practice, reflection and feedback from the group, the instructors, both oral and written. (2 hrs. per week)
Coaching Practice: 20 hours of coaching practice + peer coaching
Mentoring: Two individual one-on-one mentoring sessions.
Learning Portfolio:
Participants will put together a learning portfolio containing the following:
- Written reflections for 4 mentoring labs;
- Log for 20 hours of coaching;
- Follow-up reflections on Case Presentation
WINTER/SPRING 2025
Coursework
Virtual Coursework
Jan 21, 2025 to Apr 8, 2025
(10 sessions of 2 hours on Tuesdays
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. ET)
Dates: Jan 21, 28, Feb 4, 11, 25, Mar 4, 11, 25, Apr 1, 8 (2025)
Practicum
Virtual Practicum
Feb 18, 2025 to May 20, 2025
(8 sessions of 2 hours on Tuesdays
10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. ET) – Option of 2 additional bootcamp labs.
Dates: Feb 18, Mar 18, Apr 15, 22, 29, May 6, 13, 20 (2025)
WINTER/SPRING 2025
Full Program
Early Bird: $4,300.00 CAD + HST*
if you register and pay in full 30 days in advance of the start date.
Deposit of $250 to secure your spot.
The balance of the early bird fee is due 30 days prior to the start date.
Full price: $4,595.00 CAD + HST*
Coursework Only
Early Bird: $1,895.00 CAD + HST*
if you register and pay 30 days in advance
of the start date.
Full price: $1,995.00 CAD + HST*