What You Learn in Coach Training

Why Do I Need Coach Training?

When you’re working with real humans and touching on topics tied to mental health and their most personal desires for their life, it’s crucial that you have training so that you can adequately support clients. Yes, coaches do need training. They might not elect to get a certification credential—but training is essential. (And if you’re wondering if that’s really true, just consider how you’d feel if a potential client asked you if you had had training and you had no solid answer).

What Will I Learn in Coach Training?

ICF-Accredited coach training programs like CLCC are required to adhere to specific coaching standards and competencies, specifically the ICF Core competencies. However, this doesn’t mean that you learn like a “robot” and just memorize key concepts. Our program focuses on how you learn by doing, diving straight in to practice key coaching skills like active listening, cognitive reframing, translating insight into action steps, or asking questions that stay open and curious while keeping the client in the driver’s seat. You’ll learn these skills in ways that are active, where you get feedback while also respecting your development of a unique coaching style.

Coaching Skills Training and Personal Growth Development

Our program is unique in that we emphasize you growing personally as well as learning the coaching skill-set. Our philosophy is that to be a better coach, you need to undergo a process of change so that you can see what the roadblocks are and empathize with how hard it can be. This process of diving into your own personal growth can also give you insights and ideas into how you’ll help your clients.

This aspect of our training program is one of the things that we are thanked for most often from our graduates, who describe the CLCC coach training program as “life-changing” in their reviews of our training program.