Meeting your client where they are at in alignment with the ICF Core Competencies affords them the power to choose their own paths & arrive at solutions that meet their individual needs.

In this 6 hour Core Competency course, we work with an elegantly simple core values based model designed to allow your client quick access to the root of their conflict or anxiety, creating deep awareness, understanding & accountability.

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 work place and many other factors forcing people into identifying groups. No where is this more apparent than with the Millennials and Gen Z. They grew up with technology created by their predecessors and peers. They use social media to communicate and multi-task like 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.

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. 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. 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. 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.

Emotional and Psychological Safety play an important factor in every person’s successful relationships whether they are personal, work related, family, friends, volunteer or other groups we and our clients are involved in. We all need it. We really can’t do without it. But do we know what it is? In this 6 CCE core competency course we examine the definitions and roots of emotional and psychological safety, how we create this for our clients in accordance with the ICF core competencies.

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 work place 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 skillset 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.

Many corporations are seeking enhancements around a corporate culture that maximize productivity, reduce turnover, & encourage 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.

The Communications Styles Model has been in use for many years and has had many different iterations. Taking this model and using it to create awareness and openness around unconscious bias makes this a powerful coaching tool.

Using the guiding Sociability and Dominance scales as the model was originally created around, we explore the 4 Communications Styles of Supportive, Emotive, Reflective, and Director. Adding to this model exploration of communication patterns will allow clients to have a new awareness of unconscious biases that may be influencing them and others they are surrounded by. Working with your clients to better understand other people’s styles of communication and patterns that they are a part of is a great way to open up new awareness for group, leadership, and individual coaches alike.

There is a synergy of energy, commitment, and excitement that participants bring to a Mastermind Group. Participants raise the bar by challenging each other to create and implement goals, brainstorm ideas, and support each other with total honesty, respect, and compassion. Mastermind participants act as catalysts for growth, devil’s advocates, and supportive colleagues. Mastermind groups are popping up internationally, often lead by coaching professionals. This course examines this emerging format of group coaching and how its growing popularity will impact coaching globally.

There is a synergy of energy, commitment, and excitement that participants bring to a Mastermind Group. Participants raise the bar by challenging each other to create and implement goals, brainstorm ideas, and support each other with total honesty, respect, and compassion. Mastermind participants act as catalysts for growth, devil’s advocates, and supportive colleagues. Mastermind groups are popping up internationally, often lead by coaching professionals. This course examines this emerging format of group coaching and how its growing popularity will impact coaching globally. We will also discover the use of meaningful breakouts within the group and individual mini sessions. Increase your own awareness and fine-tune your knowledge of core competencies around group coaching. Whether you currently coach in groups or individually, advance your area of knowledge with this continuing coach education course from The Elevar Group designed specifically for credentialed coaches.

This course is a deep dive into the definition of conflict, types, and sources as well as ways to revolutionize your clients’ conflict resolution techniques. Conflict is defined as any situation in which incompatible goals, attitudes, emotions, or behaviors lead to a disagreement or opposition between two or more individuals. Examine conflict as two sources defined as internal and external. Examine conflict as two types defined as functional and dysfunctional. Functional conflict results in positive benefits to individuals, a group, or the organization. This type of good conflict can raise awareness of important issues so that they can be addressed. Good conflict carries the potential to be a win-win. Dysfunctional conflict, on the other hand, can damage group cohesion, promote hostilities among those involved, and create an overall negative experience for all associated with the situation. Learn the revolutionary process of examining conflicts in 4 steps.

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 of 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.

Individual core values influence people, groups and organizations both subconsciously and overtly. When someone has a strong understanding of how values guide decisions and actions, that awareness can open up a strong methodology of decision making that helps eliminate worry – allowing people to be more at peace with the choices they make -vs- worrying about how multiple choices might play out. They make the decision with more strength and conviction eliminating the need to worry about what might happen if they go down one path vs another. It can also be a strong way to reduce conflict in a group that may have difficulty making decisions.

Increase your own awareness and fine tune your knowledge of core competencies around values based decision making with this continuing coach education course from The Elevar Group designed specifically for credentialed coaches.

Each class module builds upon the previous one and requires each participant to coach and be coached and discuss their individual experiences with current and past coaching clients and scenarios.

Meeting your client where they are at in alignment with the ICF Core Competencies affords them the power to choose their own paths & arrive at solutions that meet their individual needs.

In this 6 hour Core Competency course, we work with an elegantly simple core values based model designed to allow your client quick access to the root of their conflict or anxiety, creating deep awareness, understanding & accountability.

ICF Core Competency CCEs require a one-to-one call to debrief this content. Please schedule yours when you have completed the recorded sessions and self-study questions from each module.

One of the first books about Appreciative Inquiry; A Positive Revolution in Change was published in 1999 by David Cooperrider, Diana Whitney. They offered an approach to organizational change based on the possibility of a more desirable future based upon the idea, “What is different now, at this time?”. That difference systematically taps the potential of human beings to make themselves, their organizations, & their communities more adaptive and more effective. AI, a theory of collaborative change, erases the winner/loser paradigm in favor of coordinated actions & closer relationships that lead to solutions at once simpler & more effective.

AI is about the search for the best in people, their organizations, & the strengths-filled, opportunity-rich world around them. AI is not so much a shift in the methods & models of organizational change, but AI is a fundamental shift in the overall perspective taken throughout the entire change process to ‘see’ the wholeness of the human system and to “inquire” into that system’s strengths, possibilities, & successes

Aligning the principle of AI with ICF Core Competencies & HRCI Functional Areas can significantly enhance your coaching skill set, improving your questioning power and level 2 and 3 listening skills as you progress in your career in service of your clients.

In this 6 hour core competency CCE course, we will look at 5 elements of self awareness, 3 kinds of self awareness & 4 steps to self awareness.

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

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.

In this 6 hour Core Competency course, we work with an elegantly simple model designed to allow your client quick access to the root of their conflict or anxiety. This framework, based on exploration of individual core values, creates deep awareness for clients to gain understanding of the situations they face. Using deep questioning, clients can understand why conflict or anxiety arises when it does, and how they can work to arrive at a solution in alignment with their individual core values.

Within this course we cover the following core competencies: Establishing Trust and Intimacy, Coaching Presence, Active Listening, Powerful Questioning, Direct Communication, Creating Awareness, Designing Actions, Planning & Goal Setting, Managing Progress and Accountability. Each module builds upon the previous and requires each person to personally ask and answer questions for active learning and application of the model with their clients and themselves.

ICF On Demand Core Competency CCEs require a one-to-one call to debrief this content. Please schedule yours when you have completed the recorded sessions and self-study questions from each module.

Everyone speaks – but how can you really engage people to listen?

Whether you are engaging employees, coaching clients, stakeholders on a project or customers, engaging is about getting and keeping people’s attention. It’s about giving them something memorable and helping them be and feel their best.

Take a deep dive on how to engage with people better than ever before in this highly interactive professional continuing education course from the Elevar Group.Engagement is a key value of many companies, leaders and others looking to improve their professionalism and communication acumen.

Using the ICF Core Competencies and the HRCI Key Fundamentals, we work on discussion and applying the following topics to our everyday work, client service needs and employee professional development:
• Why engagement matters no matter what the context
• Keys to engagement
• The MAGIC engagement model
• Habits of Super Engaging People
• Ideas for Engaging people in the workplace
• Fundamentals of engaging people in one-on-one scenarios
• Optimization of engagement
• Re-engagement and Dis-engagement

Leaders often think about collaboration somewhat narrowly: as a value to cultivate but not always a skill to teach. Ask any leader whether his or her organization values collaboration, and you’ll get a resounding yes, but asking if efforts for sustainable collaboration have been successful, and you’ll probably receive a different answer.

Using the ICF Core Competencies and SHRM BASK areas 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 with your executive clients more effectively using the ICF Core Competencies as a guideline.

 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

and the SHRM BASK areas: 

• HR Experience
• Business Acumen
• Communication
• Consultation
• Ethical Practice
• Global & Cultural Effectiveness
• Leadership & Navigation
• Relationship Management

Making a change in direction, no matter the circumstances, can be daunting to many people. Whether that’s a corporate leader charged with igniting a paradigm shift or an individual whose circumstances unexpectedly change and require them to pivot, or someone choosing to make a change (like retirement), there are some good frameworks and models to learn about that could be useful when used to create awareness with clients and leaders you work with. In this 6 hour course from the Elevar Group, we explore these models and ideas using the ICF Core Competencies and HRCI Functional Areas to guide our discussions and application of the content.

ICF Core Competencies Elevar Group Covers:
• Demonstrates Ethical Practice
• Embodies a Coaching Mindset
• Establishes and Maintains Agreements
• Cultivates Trust and Safety
• Maintains Presence
• Listens Actively
• Evokes Awareness
• Facilitates Client Growth

SHRM BASK Representation Elevar Group Covers:

• HR Experience
• Business Acumen
• Communication
• Consultation
• Ethical Practice
• Global & Cultural Effectiveness
• Leadership & Navigation
• Relationship Management

Neuro-Linguistic Coaching (NLC) is Carol Goldsmith’s reformulation of some of the most important concepts and models from the field of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) into powerful, practical coaching tools to help clients achieve breakthrough results. This course gives experienced coaches practice and feedback in using key NLC models and tools to coach clients, through classroom demos, exercises, and self-study assignments in between sessions.
Students will learn advanced Neuro-Linguistic Coaching models and tools to help clients break through self-limiting belief and behavioral patterns that may have been holding them back for decades. Coaching demos, exercises, discussions, and self-study assignments will tie the learning to one or more of the ICF core competencies. Tools and topics covered include: Building rapport through matching & mirroring of verbal and non-verbal language; content and context reframing; identifying and coaching clients’ motivational patterns; securing the client’s Commitment to Action; The Discovery Model’s 15 language patterns and corresponding coaching questions; using The Identity Map to coach the client’s “being” vs. “doing”; and how to change habitual patterns with the Success Rehearsal.