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The root of all conflict, both internal and external is unmet expectations. Meeting your client where they are at in alignment with the ICF Core Competencies affords them the power to choose their own paths and arrive at solutions that meet their individual needs.

Year over year, decade over decade, generational trends emerge in the workplace. Labels are often assigned, and workplace assumptions made, based upon years of experience, when and where someone entered the workplace, and many other factors forcing people into identifying groups.

Nowhere is this more apparent than with the Millennials. They grew up with technology created by their predecessors and peers. They use social media to communicate and multi-task as no other workplace generational group has in the past. Now, they are becoming leaders, and they demand authenticity.

But what does that term really mean? How do leaders emerge from these close-knit groups and how do they adopt a management mindset focused on bottom-line profitable results, not just having the most fun at work?

Coaching corporate leaders who want to be respected and promoted while at the same time remaining authentic to themselves and working efficiently so they can have more time to pursue personal interests is a challenging precipice many coaches are facing.

In the increasingly online connected world, we live in, many people are having trouble connecting to others in person. Social media allows you to connect and keep in touch with many people but what about in person, one on one connections that are necessary for business, family relationships, professional networking, job changes & personal relationships- including friendships? In this 6 CCE core competency course, we examine vulnerability, transparency & authenticity as it relates to healthy relationships.

Using this course with your leadership clients allows them to engage in a coach approach with their own leaders to increase awareness across many topics relating to sustainable collaboration including: spreading respect for colleagues’ contributions, openness to experimenting with others’ ideas, and sensitivity to how one’s actions may affect both colleagues’ work and the mission’s outcome. How positive outcomes can be driven and negative behaviors like distrusting others and obsessing about their own status can be minimized. Working to encourage an outward focus in everyone, challenging the tendency people often have to fixate on themselves, empowers both teams and individuals move towards outcomes of not only what they’d like to say and achieve, but also what can be learned from others.

Taking the ideas around sustained collaboration and moving it from an officially named corporate goal to a recognizable corporate culture requires creating opportunities for collaboration and demonstrating institutional support for it over time. Work more effectively using these guidelines.

In this 6 hour course, improve your mastery of the ICF Core Competencies:

1. Demonstrates Ethical Practice
2. Embodies a Coaching Mindset
3. Establishes and Maintains Agreements
4. Cultivates Trust and Safety
5. Maintains Presence
6. Listens Actively
7. Evokes Awareness
8. Facilitates Client Growth

HRCI Functional Areas Elevar Group Covers:
Business Management
Employee and Labor Relations
Employee Relations and Engagement
Learning and Development
Leadership and Strategy
Strategic Global Human Resources
Global Talent Management
Workplace Culture

But what does that term really mean? How do leaders emerge from these close-knit groups and how do they adopt a management mindset focused on bottom-line profitable results, not just having the most fun at work?

Coaching corporate leaders who want to be respected and promoted while at the same time remaining authentic to themselves and working efficiently so they can have more time to pursue personal interests is a challenging precipice many coaches are facing.

Capacity, confidence, capability, and environment influence creativity which is the zero-starting point of the innovation process, with the individual as the starting point of every idea. Creativity is, by definition, the ability to create new ideas, but ideas as a result of creativity must have economic value to be treated as an ‘innovation’.

Nurturing, promoting, and supporting innovation is a fundamental coaching skill set any level of coach can better hone to draw upon for both individual coaching clients as well as in team environments.

Team coaching requires specially developed acumen that transcends individual coaching. Working with a wide variety of participants who bring varying degrees of emotional intelligence to each session requires keen coaching awareness around group and team characteristics. Recognizing unique structures and dynamics that exist in groups and teams and how that shapes individual perceptions and influences decision making is essential in mastering the ICF core competencies.

Increase your core competencies in group and team dynamics with this advanced continuing coach education course from The Elevar Group. This course puts resource materials from the textbook In Mixed Company – Communication in Small Groups and Teams by J. Dan Rothwell (used with permission from Cengage Learning), and other trusted sources, into a practical coaching context. Class discussions, exercises, and homework focus on learning to use key skills with flexibility and proper knowledge of appropriateness for a given context.

Learn how teams differ from groups, the distinctions between empowered and high performing teams, factors that affect teams, and how change impacts them. Use and apply this knowledge in specific coaching contexts with other experienced coaches sharing their real-life experiences.

Many corporations are seeking enhancements around a corporate culture that maximize productivity, reduces turnover, & encourages creativity and open dialogue fruitful to innovation. These initiatives are often led by or include coaches in the process.

In this course, we fashion individual frameworks for attendees to use in their own unique scenarios utilizing using the 12 core competencies as a backbone to create a corporate coaching culture framework as is appropriate for your practice, client &/or company.

In the workplace, which is increasingly 24/7 access due to social media and technology, anxiety is on the rise. Because of connectivity, it can be harder to escape these pressures without a clear-cut path being set.

As coaches, we work with a wide variety of people in a vast realm of workplace circumstances. Using the core competencies as your framework to help your clients with finding ways to disconnect and recharge so they can better arm themselves against workplace anxiety is a great skill set to have in your coaching toolbox.

Identifying the triggers of anxiety and finding a stopper together that they can call upon when needed takes time, repetition and commitment. Breaking any habit can be difficult for a client but setting a roadmap for success and accountability will lead to coaching success.

In this course, we look at 5 elements of self awareness, 3 kinds of self awareness and 4 steps to self awareness.

Add self awareness cultivation skills to your professional tool box, honing your skills with other experienced professional from around the globe Share stories and work to grow together using various examples of how to develop awareness generating techniques into your practice.

In this 6 hour course, improve your mastery of the ICF Core Competencies:

1. Demonstrates Ethical Practice
2. Embodies a Coaching Mindset
3. Establishes and Maintains Agreements
4. Cultivates Trust and Safety
5. Maintains Presence
6. Listens Actively
7. Evokes Awareness
8. Facilitates Client Growth

HRCI Functional Areas Elevar Group Covers:
Business Management
Employee and Labor Relations
Employee Relations and Engagement
Learning and Development
Leadership and Strategy
Strategic Global Human Resources
Global Talent Management
Workplace Culture

Coaches are globally called upon by a wide variety of individual and corporate clients. No matter what country your client is located in, there are commonalities amongst entrepreneurs and how they approach life, relationships, and business that make them unique. Their awareness and thoughts often boil down to three main areas: their business, their goals, and themselves.

Increase your own awareness and competence in core competencies around coaching entrepreneurs. Whether you coach in groups or individually, fine-tuning your area of knowledge with this advanced continuing coach education course from The Elevar Group will increase your acumen with this unique group of individuals.

Many studies have been done around entrepreneurs and in this course, we will examine various aspects of that research and better equip our toolboxes with increased ability to access these clients in alignment with the ICF Core Competencies.

Working with Executives who are pulled in many directions requires a high level of adeptness in direct questioning, bottom lining, and narrowing in on possible areas of awareness.

The Polarity Management tools developed by Barry Johnson, Ph.D. and Polarity Partners, LLC are great tools to use to create awareness with your clients about where they are on a personal scale of a wide variety of and/or situations. Setting goals around where they lie in the various demand poles they face can help them achieve balance faster and more effectively.

This course puts resource materials from the textbook Polarity Management – Identifying and Managing Unsolvable Problems by Barry Johnson, Ph.D. (used with permission from Barry Johnson and Polarity Partners, LLC), and other trusted sources, into a practical coaching context.

Class discussions, exercises, and homework focus on learning to use key skills with flexibility and proper knowledge of appropriateness for a given context.

In many contexts, the LEAN model is an effective tool to move a person -or group -to a rapid change or outcome. In coaching, this is a powerful model built on the basics of the project management cycle: Learn – Build – Measure – (repeat).

Using this methodology in coaching affords clients and coaches a simple to follow process no matter what the situation; Providing enough structure to encourage standard processes, yet enough leverage to maneuver complications to problem-solving.

Confidence and morale combined with time, drive, and value, initiates a paradigm shift if awareness is included. Generally defined as a framework that has unwritten rules and that directs actions, paradigm shifts are always happening, but many times people may not realize it until after it has occurred. Leveraging this powerful tool can be transformative for clients who want to drive change and outcomes.

While it may seem simple, based on Kuhn’s work, the complexities can be meaningful, significant, and impactful on both individuals and companies. Paradigm shifts allow for growth or contraction, either of which can be positive depending on the circumstances. Explore 4 portions of a paradigm shift sequence process that move a client from informative learning to transformative learning. Layering in team dynamics and evaluating both personal and professional scenarios for increased coaching awareness, this course is sure to inspire you to notice paradigm shift sequence processing in action all around you, enabling you to improve your client work in alignment with the ICF Core Competencies.

Positivity can be contagious. Every situation has an upside and a downside; the yin and the yang, the good and the bad. The ICF core competencies help to draw out positivity in ourselves as coaches in order to serve any client, but some people are predisposed to see the glass half-empty; they focus on past bad experiences rather than the positive things they learned along the way. They worry about the “what ifs” of situations they have no control over, rather than saying “this is what I CAN do” and focusing on the upside of a situation.

Much work has been done around the relationship between positive psychology and coaching. Increase your own awareness and fine-tune your knowledge of core competencies around The Power of Positivity with this continuing coach education course from The Elevar Group designed specifically for credentialed coaches.

Celebrities, athletes, parents, teachers, professors, doctors…no matter who the client, everyone battles self-doubt. Within this 3 day, 6 CCEU course we explore 4 steps to turn self-doubt into personal mastery. Each class module builds upon the previous one, and requires each participant to coach and be coached through 4 steps necessary to eliminate self-doubt:

1- Focus – Distinguishing between the source of the doubt and the symptoms of the feelings.

2- Understand – Determining what previous experiences cause the doubt and what influences the feelings to emerge and why.

3- Clarify – revisiting the source and symptoms after creating awareness as to the influencers. How does hubris play into this?

4- Kick the habit – Knowing the trigger points, how can you avoid them and what can you change in the routine to eliminate the doubt. Taking control of the thoughts and turning them into positive thoughts.

Whether your client is looking for more positive influences in their life or is someone seeking to improve positive influence on others, referent power and creating positive spheres of influence are at the heart of coaching, and well-aligned with ICF core competencies.

Exploring French & Raven’s Forms of Power and further distinguishing those into personal and positional power groups enhances your coaching toolbox in able to better serve your clients. Since 1959 these concepts have applied to leaders and individuals across many spectrums in life. Referent power can lead to enthusiastic and unquestioning trust, compliance, loyalty, and commitment from subordinates.

As coaches, improving your knowledge of how people influence and are influenced is key to improving your client outcomes. In alignment with the ICF core competencies, we examine various topics that enable us to work within repeatable frameworks that allow clients to build referential power as a key to authentic leadership success.