Becoming a Coach

Jonathan Passmore is an award-winning and internationally respected chartered psychologist. He has written or edited over 40 books including 'The Coaches Handbook' and 'The Coaching Buyers Handbook' and 'Coaching Tools', three volumes. His books have been translated into multiple languages. He has also written over 250 scientific papers and book chapters. He holds five degrees, ICF and EMCC coach credentials and is a professor at Henley Business School's Centre for Coaching, which delivers post-graduate coach training. He is also Senior Vice President at EZRA (LHH), a global digital coaching provider. He continues to coach and provide supervision to coaches in training.

Tracy Sinclair was the 2020 Global President of the ICF and a trained coach mentor. She has practiced as a coach for 15 years and now leads a coaching, coach mentor, and coach training business helping clients and coaches in their development journeys. She has strong connections across the globe with ICF chapters and continues to speak at events across the world.

Section 1.- What is coaching.- Who am I?.-  Understanding clients.- Coach maturity.- Section 2: Developing core coaching competences.-  Ethics & professional conduct (competency 1).- Contracting (competency 2).- Relationship (competency 3).- Presence (competency 4).- Active listening (competency 5).- Powerful questions (competency 6).- Direct communication (competency 7).- Creating awareness (competency 8).- Moving to action (competency 9, 10 & 11).- Integrating the behaviors (Summary).- Section 3: Approaches to coaching.-  The Henley Eclectic Model.- Behavioural approach and the GROW model.- Humanistic approach & the Time to think model.- Cognitive behavioural approach and ABCDE model.- Systemic approach.-  Gestalt approach.- Solution Focused approach.-  Psychodynamic.-  Neuroscience Integration.- Tools and techniques .- Coaching tools.- A series of short chapters (15-20) each describing a different tool and how the tool might be used in coaching practice.- Developing your coaching practice A series of short chapters on how to reflective practice, supervision and continuous professional development.- Contracting with clients (multi-party contracts - psychological contract, organizational coaching and individual contract).-  Maintaining an ethical approach (Ethical decision making & referrals).- Continuous professional development (coach mentoring, recorded sessions and feedback, reading, journaling).-  Supervision (what is supervision and how can it help your practice).-  Developing your business (how to develop your coaching business).