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Coaching is fundamental to everything we do in ministry, from discipling new believers to developing new leaders. Dynamic churches and ministries have coaching woven into their genetic code. CoachNet's desire is to see people become intentional about coaching -- either in beginning to coach others or in improving the quality of coaching they currently deliver. Everybody talks about it... it's time to start doing it!

Receive qualified training
To coach people well and effectively, you need training. If you are to function as a guide, walking alongside someone as they venture onto new paths, you need to have a sense of the roadmap that lies ahead. That doesn't mean that you know where to go, or even that you've been there ahead of them. It just means you have the basic skills to guide them along each stage of their own unique path.

The training process is easy with CoachNet's Coach Certification program -- a specialized, comprehensive process that prepares Christian leaders to effectively coach and develop others.

CoachNet's coach training is experiential, offering not only a seminar but a hands-on process:

• Preliminary coaching with a coach mentor as you do pre-seminar reading and thinking about coaching
• Seminar training focused on the coaching process, practical skills and core competencies
• Experience coaching others while you receive 9 coaching sessions from your coach mentor
• Take part in a coaching skills assessment process
• Once all requirements and evaluations have been completed, certification is earned and a CoachNet subscription is included that allows you to access the latest resources and tools.

Orientation

• Experience three coaching sessions via telephone with your coach mentor, working through Coaching 101 (pre-workshop).
• Familiarize yourself with the CoachNet website and the Online Coaching tool.
• Recruit two persons you will coach during your fieldwork (post-workshop).
• Complete a DiSC profile.

3-Day Coach Training Workshop

• Coaching 101 Handbook serves as the curriculum for this event.
• Dig deep into the 5Rs of the coaching process -- Relate, Reflect, Refocus, Resource, Review.
• Practice discovery listening.
• Explore effective techniques for asking powerful questions.
• Learn through observation and participation.
• Identify your behavioral profile and improve interpersonal skills.

Experience (Field work)

• Coach two persons for six sessions each. (One one-hour coaching appointment per month with each.)
• Work with your coach mentor for six sessions to grow in your coaching capacity (One one-hour coaching appointment per month.)
• Work with your coach mentor to create a personal development plan for continued growth.

Assessment

• Feedback from field work
• Online coach assessment through www.coachnet.org

Certification

• Certification is earned when all requirements and evaluations are completed.
• Maintain CoachNet subscription to access latest resources.
• Engage in lifelong learning to improve your coaching ministry.

• Relate: establish coaching relationship and agenda
• Reflect: discover and explore key issues
• Refocus: determine priorities and next steps
• Resource: provide support and encouragement
• Review: evaluate, celebrate, and revise plans

In addition, we've found that there's a big difference between "hope you become competent" and "ensure that you become competent" when it comes to coach training. Through a qualitative research project, we've discovered 9 core competencies that effective coaches practice, and we've geared our training around developing and assessing them:

• Abiding in Christ
• Self-assessing
• Communicating
• Establishing
• Supporting
• Concluding
• Diagnosing
• Planning
• Monitoring

If you would like more information about our coach certification process, please call 1.888.318.7920, or email support@coachnet.org.