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Our Foundations Programme equips managers and leaders with the basics giving them confidence and skills needed to coach in a business environment. Learning takes place in a highly practical and energetic environment, with discussion and feedback from our team of practising business coaches.

We begin Foundations by making a bold commitment to our delegates - that in just 2 days, we will fundamentally shift and improve the way you communicate. To date without exception - our delegates have told us that we succeeded!

Our Foundations level is exactly as the title suggests - it is teaching you the must have, foundation skills that you need to become a great coach and begin helping others achieve better results. In addition to that, you will develop a far more powerful and impactful style of communicating with everyone you interact with.

We will take you through our 6 key skills of coaching, and share with you insights taken from neuroscience and human psychology that will help you better understand your self and those around you. Through practice, exercises, live demos, observation and our step-by-step bespoke video series (which is then available to you as a graduate), we ensure your learning journey is varied and challenging. Above all, however, we keep it practical and results focused, meaning you can begin to implement the skills you learn immediately in your role.

Foundations is endorsed by The Institute & Leadership and Management, this means that the course includes an assessment element which allows you to evidence that you have achieved a satisfactory level of competence. It also means that the course is subject to a comprehensive quality assessment by an Institute external verifier each year, to ensure that we continue to meet the highest quality standards.

On successful completion of Foundations you are eligible to use Certified Business Coach Status, elevating your credibility as a professional - providing comfort that you have completed a quality assured, award winning coaching course with a well respected provider.

Awareness and Evolution are two distinct programmes but are offered as a progression package. For those looking to work towards a professional coaching credential, Awareness & Evolution forms the second stage of The Business Coaching Programme. The full programme is accredited by the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches™ (WABC)™ and offers eligibility to apply for Registered Corporate Coach™ (RCC)™ status.

A great coach must be able to do two things well – manage their own state (what they are thinking, how they feel and how they therefore behave) to remain as effective as possible for the coachee, but also learn to quickly ‘read’ their coachee, so they understand what approach will be most effective and how they can adapt their approach to achieve better results.

Now that you have a coaching core on which to build from Level 1 - Foundations, we focus on how well you manage yourself (self awareness) and the master skill of great coaches, which is how well you are able to read others (social awareness).

We will introduce you to a profiling tool that helps uncover why we behave the way we do and how this knowledge is exceptionally powerful for a coach. We will help you identify your key strengths but highlight the danger of overplaying those strengths.

You’ve learnt and developed your coaching skills, you’ve increased your self-awareness and you’re better at understanding what drives other people’s behaviour. Now is the time to explore the mind of the executive and learn what it takes to be seen as credible and useful to someone at a senior executive level.

This is the focus of Evolution, where we will share with you what it takes to be credible at this level, how to ‘set up for success’ and ways to finesse what you have already learnt. We will show you how to calculate the return-on-investment of coaching in an organisation and demonstrate a powerful new tool that helps you build better relationships with even the most difficult stakeholders.

Then for the grand finale, it is time to test your mettle! You will conduct an observed coaching session with an executive you have never met before, who needs your help with a real-life work challenge. It’s not scripted and anything goes… because as we constantly remind you at The BCA, coaching is a contact sport!

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We got fed up working with profiling tools that use confusing acronyms or colour charts, more often than not providing users with a badge to justify their bias (‘well I do that because I’m red’).

So we built our own.

Leading Energy Profile (LEP) is a simple but incredibly versatile and powerful tool which helps us to understand our thinking bias, and the ways this can impact our behaviour. It incorporates the language of energy and teaches users how to flex their thinking energy to become more adaptable, and achieve a far greater connection with their audience.

The ability to flex and adapt your communication style is a fundamental skill of great leaders and LEP will show you how.

Becoming a licensed LEP practitioner will give you an insightful, fresh and different approach when working with individuals and teams. As a licensed practitioner, you will help individuals transform their leadership style through enhanced communication and influencing skills, enhancing team performance and driving more productive and impactful relationships.

LEP can be used to enhance any development intervention from; one:one coaching, team facilitation, leadership development or negotiation and communication workshops.

This fast paced 2 day programme will give you all the training, materials and ongoing support you need to use the tool effectively with your clients or within your organisation.

To find our more about LEP and how it can help your organisation take a look at our sister website www.leadingenergyprofile.com.