As a Certified Leadership Development Coach, you can work with:
• CEOs, COOs and other C-level executives
• Business unit heads, and country and region in-charges
• Presidents and vice presidents
• Boards of directors
• High-potential managers who aspire to lead
• Anyone in an executive leadership role
One phrase has survived every era: change is fast, and it never stops. That applies to every business and every individual.
The pressure it creates is real. Organisations must outgrow the natural pace of growth and turn managers into high-performing leaders. People have argued for centuries over one question:
“Are leaders born, or can they be made?”
While the debate goes on, those who prefer doing to talking get on with coaching managers who show leadership potential into complete leaders.
We are not saying you can speed up how a crop grows. We mean creating the right conditions and protecting and nurturing the seed of leadership so that it ripens sooner. This is what an InnerMost Shift Certified Leadership Development Coach does, deeply and systematically.
As a Certified Leadership Development Coach, you learn a systematic framework we call LEAD: Leadership Excellence And Development.
Many organisations hesitate to appoint a leadership development coach because specialist coaches are expensive. We train InnerMost Shift coaches in powerful language patterns and a questioning tool to position themselves as LEAD coaches.
ICF white papers and studies report a return of about $7 to $8 for every $1 spent on leadership coaching. PwC research puts average hourly fees at around $150 for a life coach, $250 for a business coach and $350 for an executive leadership coach.
Worth considering: a leadership coach
• Can command higher fees than most other coaching categories
• Needs a solid set of coaching tools
• Structures every session with a framework
• Must have superior abilities and competencies
• Helps managers develop into leaders
• Helps leaders grow into outstanding leaders
• Assists outstanding leaders to become role models of excellence
• Inspires leaders to magnify their leadership presence
What is the challenge?
You cannot simply walk into corporates, business houses, Fortune 500 companies and institutions because you have completed the minimum 60 hours of ICF training on the core competencies. You need to go beyond that and build a new set of competencies.
So, what do we do?
• Train you with the unique InnerMost Shift Coaching model
• Hone you in Leadership Excellence And Development (LEAD) practices
• Give you the IC PROBE GAP framework to structure your sessions
• Equip you with 20 situational coaching tools
• Train you to use dignified language that influences leaders
• Share how we have coached top-tier leaders
• Support you in signing contracts with leaders, and stand behind you
As an InnerMost Shift Coach, you are certified as a “LEAD Coach”, which helps you to:
• Coach people with hidden potential to develop as leaders
• Become an expert coach who helps them uncover their abilities
• Help them step into an inner terrain of resourcefulness they never knew existed
• Work with a reliable system that proves your credibility
• Give them a meaningful space to envision a future for their outstanding abilities
• Celebrate their successes with them
• Challenge them to let go of the past and create a future of their dreams, with their own energy
Remember: the most aspiring people hire the most aspiring coach.
Think: what are you aspiring to be? If you want to coach the best leaders into outstanding leaders, you have to be an outstanding coach. Our Certified Leadership Coaching Program gives you the skills, insight and confidence to coach growing leaders as they pursue excellence in every area of their lives.
Farsighted, encouraging, strategic, commitment driven, determined, lovable, decisive, practical, respectful of perceptual truth, trust-winning, skilled in delegation, present and mindful.
• Leadership Excellence And Development (PROBE assessment)
• “Context” and behavioural interviewing
• Coaching to evolve a leadership vision
• Discovering a sense of purpose and formulating a statement
• Eliciting the leader’s resource inventory: talents, calibres and strengths
• Identifying desired contextual behaviours and traits
• Mapping the leader’s gaps
• Designing strategies and action steps to close the gap
• Designing an action plan to use strengths
• Finalising the “Who Matters” list
• Getting perceptual insights
• Creating an alignment plan
• Evolving a growth and development plan
• Strategies for behavioural shifts
• Tracking progress in leadership impact and growth
• What is different about coaching for Leadership Excellence And Development
• Essentials of a leadership coaching proposal
• Tripartite signing of the contract
• The leadership coaching intake letter
• Mapping the Matrix of Leadership Excellence And Development (LEAD)
• “Interaction Excellence”, a model for engaging with the coachee
• Eliciting the “InnerMost Core” using the Facets of Mind inventory
• Establishing peripheral behaviours and self-precepts of important relationships
• Initiating the Individual Development Planning Tool (IDPT)
• The process of involving stakeholders
• Selecting MOSE for behavioural change
• Clarifying the leadership growth continuum
• Finding the worth of LEAD for management and stakeholders
• Clarifying the meaning of language in emails and messages from stakeholders and mentors
• Mannerisms, mode and measures for stakeholder meetings
• Self-study and tasks
• Evolving a story that demonstrates leadership impact
• Wax the Weakness, Steady on Strengths, Leveraging the Least, Uncovering the Unknown (WULS)
• The Emergent Purpose Clarity Statement (EPCS) exercise
• A survey for determining LEAD effectiveness
AlphaStars Academy of Excellence offers ICF-accredited coach education pathways. Exact accreditation and education hours depend on the selected program.
No. Accredited coach education is one component of the ICF credentialing journey. Individual credentials are awarded by ICF after applicants satisfy applicable requirements.
Depending on the pathway, learning includes demonstrations, repeated coaching practice, observed coaching, developmental feedback, mentoring and reinforcement between sessions.
Carefully structured learning manuals and supporting resources such as worksheets, question resources, planning formats, notes and reinforcement material relevant to the selected program.
Support varies by pathway and can include mentoring, recording/session review, credentialing guidance, reinforcement assignments and faculty support.