The Professional Coach  L2

The OLC Professional Coach - L2 Segment 

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The Organizational Leadership Coaching® PROFESSIONAL COURSE is the third of four courses to build on basic coaching competencies and apply advanced tools, methods and practices to help emerging leaders and train coaches. The Professional Coach Course covers the skills of Coaching as a Legacy Leader (See the Legacy Leadership(R) Institute page), Engaging with EQ/SQ & CQ, Coaching "The Who", Walking In Magnetic Authenticity, Understanding Organizational Development and Shifting Organizational Culture, Mastering Change, Coaching Resilience in a VUCA World, engaging the ICF Coaching Credentialing Examination and embedding the OLC Guiding Principles and Best Practices. The Professional Course adds organizational knowledge and coaching skills to embed best practices, personal foundation building and more advanced techniques and methods. At the conclusion of the institute trilogy (The Primer, The Competent & The Professional Courses) students will be more than prepared to engage the International Coaching Federations (ICF) Associate Certified Coach (ACC) and the ICF Coaching Credentialing Examination. This 62 hour course along with The Primer and Competent Courses constitutes the L2 offering of 132 hours. The Legacy Leadership Coaching Course is the forth segment of 50 hours rendering the entire OLCI 182 hours total. 

 

Professional Course Objectives

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• Examine and practice the Master Coaching Skills of Managing Focus, Lasering in on Essence & Coaching the “Who”

• Ponder and strategize how to engage the ICF Coach Credentialing Exam and embed the ICF Core Competencies with the PCC Markers highlighted and integrated 

• Investigate the roles EQ/SQ/CQ play in the coaching encounter

• Consider the coaches role in Organizational Culture Development, The Change Process and how to encourage Resilience in a VUCA World

• Learn the skill of Walking in Authenticity as a means of organic marketing and magnetism 

• Internalize the OLC Coaching Guiding Principles and Best Practices along with Certification in the Legacy Leadership® Institute

• Identify and practice masterful coaching skills

 

The Professional Coach Course 

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March 23, 2023          Coaching Definitions and Characteristics (2)  

March 30, 2023          Coaching the “WHO” Lecture (2) (Homework – 2)

April 1, 2023               Mentor Coach Practicum (4)  

April 6, 2023               Overview of the Competencies and PCC Markers

                                    OLC Magnetic Authenticity (2) 2 HW

April 13, 2023              Competency 1: Demonstrates Ethical Practice

                                    Engaging with EQ/SQ/CQ Intelligence (2) 1 HW

April 15, 2023              Competency 2: Embodies Coaching Mindset

                                    Mentor Coach Practicum (4) 

April 20, 2023              Competency 3: Establishes and Maintains Agreements

                                    Conversational Intelligence (2) 2 HW

April 27, 2023              Competency 4: Cultivates Trust and Safety

                                     Mastering the Personal Change Process (2) 2 HW

May 4, 2023                 Competency 5: Maintains Presence

                                     Coaching Resilience in VUCA World (2) 

May11, 2023                Competency 6: Listens Actively

                                     OLC Ethics, Guiding Principles & Best Practices (2) 

May 13, 2023               Competency 7: Evokes Awareness

                                     Engaging the ICF Coaching Knowledge Exam (2) 

                                     Avoidance of Transference/Countertransference (2) 

May 18, 2023               Competency 8: Facilitates Clients Growth

                                     Coaching as a Legacy Leader (2) 2 HW

May 25, 2023               Coaching as a Legacy Leader (2) 

June 1, 2023                Understanding Organizational Development (2) 

June 3, 2023                Mentor Coach Practicum (4) 

June 8, 2023                Introduction to Team Coaching*** (2)                             

June 17, 2023              Peer Coaching (2)

June 15, 2023              Peer Coaching (2) 

June 22, 2023              End of Course Celebration/Evaluation (2) 

 

Individual Mentor Coaching (5 Hours)

Session #1 – Peer Coaching (2) SWR1

Session #2 – Client Coaching (1) SWR1

Session #3 – Coach Feedback (2)

                                                             Total 62 Hours

                                             

Synchronous 52

Asynchronous 10

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The OLC Professional Coaching Course

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Session Overview

 

OLC Professional Course Introduction 1 Hour Synchronous

 

The Introduction serves as an ice breaker for the course and allows students to get to know each other and to align classes for the first time. The objectives of the course are reviewed, and course expectations are sought from students. Students are advised that the Professional Course uses a “Shift in Learning Paradigm” approach in learning and applies a conversational style in presentation. Learning partners are assigned and briefed on their purpose and how they will work together over the period of the course. Class norms are explained as well as all the logistics for daily self-care, meals and transportation. Course requirements are laid out and the agenda for the three days and follow-up coaching calls. A group photo is taken at the first break and posted on the courses private page on the OLC web site. Students are walked thru a OLC website overview and given passwords to enter the private page. All resources, assignments, articles, recordings, videos and pdf’s of the syllabus and slides are posted on the private course page. Students sign intellectual property agreements at the end of the course.

 

OLC Coaching Skills Review 1 Hour Synchronous

 

Orientation to the OLC world of coaching is imperative to building a common language and foundation for coaching dialogue and development. It for that reason that each course in the OLC Institute starts with a review of the OLC Coaching Dialogue and Re Engendered Models followed by an emphasis on creating a positive coaching culture. The OLC Key Features About Coaching are reviewed as well as the Top Ten Pitfalls to remind coaches of the boundaries for good coaching and the characteristics of the same. Once the students are aligned with the OLC common language and the core skills of the Dialogue/Re-Engineered Models we are ready to engage The Professional Coaching Course of the Institute.

 

Coaching the “WHO” Lecture 1 ½ Hours Synchronous

 

The OLC Coaching Institute is developed in graduated levels of skill ability, expectation, and understanding. Focus on coaching the “Who” starts in The Primer Course, is highlighted in The Competent Course and now is the major focus of The Professional Course. The first major subject in The Professional Course is “Coaching the Who” and sets the stage for all the learning throughout the course. Moving rapidly to the “essence of the ‘who’” and treating it with efficiency is the primary measure of professional competence and ability. Our aim is for The Professional Coach to perform solidly at the PCC Level and able to coach acknowledging all the PCC Markers in ability. To do that we aggressively share the Elements, Techniques, and Cautions of coaching the “Who.” A major emphasis is spent on avoiding coaching surface perception issues and getting to the reality of issues that deal with the core beliefs, emotions, assumptions and fears of the client that can lead to long term sustained internal rather than external temporary change. The session starts with previous thoughts on coaching the “who” and moves to the deeper internal issues. A coaching practicum is offered at the close of this session to begin the practice this profound skill.

 

OLC Magnetic Authenticity 1 ½ Hours Synchronous

 

The Professional Coaching Course starts to engage coaches in the business aspects of the coaching endeavor. Typical for coaches at this stage are the questions: Where or how do I find clients? What is the best way to get my name out there? How do I position my business for maximum visibility/traffic? Suggested in this session is the thought that maybe the question is not how you do these things, but rather how do they (Clients) find you? Thomas Leonard made a profound proclamation in his 28 Principles of Attraction as he suggested that coaches would do well to make themselves attractive in lieu of trying to find clients. His postulation has inspired this course and given birth to what OLC calls developing a Magnetic Authenticity. The premise is that if the coach shows up in relationships as genuinely authentic, clients will notice and be drawn to the authentic model to be sculptured likewise. We do not in any way mean “in the likeness of the coach” but rather “in the likeness of their desired self.” We infer that the authenticity of the coach models the “road less traveled” for the client and illuminates a pathway for their own inspired travel. Unfolded in the session are the Four Movements in Magnetic Authenticity, the Four Ways to Show Up, the OLC 18 Principles of Magnetic Authenticity, the OLC Self-care Model and the Personal Development & Integration Model. In the end coaches are challenged to provide extreme self-care to serve as a model or magnet for those seeking their services.

 

Engaging with EQ/SQ/CQ Intelligence 1 ½ Hours Synchronous

 

The central ingredient in Emotional, Social and Conversational Intelligence (EQ/SQ/CQ) is the matter of awareness.  This session dives into the essence of this awareness to enable the coach to cultivate his/her own awareness and facilitate the awareness of others. The session ponders the definitions of each area, examines ways to coach its integration and suggest points to highlight for clients to boost ROI.  The truth of the matter is - people, in large part, don't leave jobs because of money or lack of opportunity but rather because of a toxic relationship with an emotionally unintelligent supervisor. The workplace can impact its ROI by creating a dynamic coaching culture that serves to value, respect and encourage workers so they feel empowered and supported. The session lays out a foundation for this by exploring emotional intelligence and then spreads the pattern learned over the areas of social and conversational intelligence.  This course expands on that in The Competent Course in that it concerns the facilitation of EQ/SQ/CQ and the impact on ROI in corporate culture. 

 

Mastering the Personal Change Process 1 ½ Hours Synchronous

 

Personal change was a subject in The Competent Course and is again covered in the Professional Couse but from the perspective of understanding the resistance and responses to change. The resistance to change is reviewed in the “Who Moved My Cheese” video and its application to the coaching encounter. After which the session moves on to investigate the Five Categories in Response to Change and how to Respond to Criticism. These topics are approached from the perspective of dealing with coachee’s and how coachee’s deal with people they lead or manage. These models are tools for the coach as well as models of awareness to understand the behavior of coachee’s. Applied to this resistance focus is the learning from Conversational Intelligence and the biochemical aspects impacting the resistance to change. The final shared thought on this topic is the groundbreaking work of Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey in the Immunity to Change and his insistence that the challenging belief systems is necessary if one is to achieve internal deep and long-lasting or permanent change.

 

Coaching Resilience in a VUCA World 1 ½ Hours Synchronous

 

Coaches find themselves walking alongside leaders/clients in a world that is flat and moving at “warp speed” as Scotty would say in the Star Tract series of yesterday. What was fantasy yesterday, is reality today and there are no signs of anything slowing down. It is here that coaches meet entrepreneurs scanning for opportunities to disrupt, leaders attempting to make decisions in ever changing landscapes and souls deciding on shifting opportunities and direction. Coaching Resilience in a VUCA (Volatile – Uncertain – Complex – Ambiguous) World is a course to sensitize the coach to the present realities clients face and to allow them to anticipate the resources, methods and challenges to meet their needs. The course starts with a definition and moves on to examine the etymology of the acronym and concept history. The final moments are spent pondering tools to help mobilize leaders along with ways to strategize resilient movement. With the preparation to provide intervention coaching, the coach is challenged to examine his/her own VUCA events to insure self-care for a modeled response.

 

Exploring the ICF Competencies 1 ½ Hours Synchronous

 

At the Professional Course level, it is imperative that coaches know and understand the New ICF Competencies. In that the Professional Coach is expected to have the ability to walk into an organization and stand up an internal coaching apparatus, the Competencies are a must as a knowledge base. The Competencies along with the PCC Markers are passed out to students (located in the appendix of the syllabus) the night before this session and each student is asked to prepare a 5-minute briefing on an assigned competency. The student is also ask to view the ICF Videos on YouTube that pertain to their assigned Competency. During the session each student presents the prepared competency remarks which is followed by questions/comments of other students and facilitators. The intention is to embed the Competencies/Markers so that all students gain benefit of the insight of others. There is also an End of Course Comprehension Quiz (ECCQ) that test for the comprehension of Competency mastery and understanding. In addition to the reading and preparation of the Core Competence briefing, students are asked to read the ICF Code of Ethics. Questions are fielded concerning understanding during class and questions are included from it on the End of Course Comprehension Quiz.

 

OLC Ethics, Guiding Principles & Best Practices 1 ½ Hours Synchronous

 

OLC has created its own Code of Ethics, Guiding Principles, Best Practices and Coaching Boundaries. Students are expected to interact with these branding identifiers and to acknowledge the intended culture of OLC Coaching. All of the tenants espoused are derived from the ICF Competencies/Ethics but tailored to include OLC preferences and philosophy. Each Principle, Best Practice, Boundary or Guideline is unpacked during this session along with its intended meaning. In addition to these unpacked items the Principles, Best Practices and Guidelines are used as banners shown during the breaks to reinforce unconscious leaning. (These are not included on the ECCQ.)

 

Understanding Organizational Development 2 Hours Synchronous

 

In the OLC lower courses, The Primer and The Competent Coaching Courses, the emphasis was on coaching skills and methods applied to individuals. The Professional Course terminal learning objective is to introduce organizational coaching and intervention. The OLC Professional Coach is to have the skills to enter any organization and able to set up and manage an internal coaching apparatus. This not only necessitates coaching knowledge and competency, but also extends to the basic knowledge and understanding of strategic planning and organizational culture transformation. It is for this reason that basic strategy planning has been added to the training knowledge base along with leader development integration. What is emphasized in this session is the process of organizational transformation along with the beginning knowledge of strategy planning tools and methods. Advanced planning tools and methods will be taught in the additional courses of the OLC curriculum. (See the additional 72 hours above The Professional Course in the OLC training system) Several tools and concepts are only introduced during this session to explain the Hoshin Strategy Planning Process and show the big picture of possibility. Students will actually use the Affinity Strategy Generation Process and Diagram tools to produce a mock strategy listing.

 

Coaching as a Legacy Leader® 4 Hours Synchronous

 

The culture of OLC training assumes that coaching in and of itself is leader development or training. Legacy Leadership® has been adopted and integrated into the Institute as the foundational model for leader development. At every level of the OLC Institute Legacy Leadership is taught and built upon in a skill development pyramid. At The Professional Coach level the basic model is reviewed for those who might be joining OLC in The Professional Course and as a reminder for those already knowledgeable of the model. Of particular focus is the emphasis on Vision Development and the One Page Business Plan for capturing vision and strategic initiatives. The One Page Business Plan exercise ties together the organizational strategic development (Affinity) session above and Best Practice 1 concerning Holding Vision. This block enables coaches to walk into organizations with a ready leader coaching model and process to impact leaders which in-turn can transform cultures.

 

Engaging the ICF Coaching Credentialing Examination 1 Hour Synchronous

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At this level of the OLC Institute the majority of students will be seeking an ICF Certification. The ICF requires that all applicants take the Coaching Credentialing Examination for certification purposes. The requirement is that each applicant take it once for one of the certifications. OLC has decided to put this session in The Professional Course in that all will be seeking the ACC or PCC. The course is developed around the testimonies of those who have taken the assessment and the practice questions/examples given in the ICF Question and Answer sections concerning the assessment. Emphasis is given concerning the Core Competencies, PCC Markers and Code of Ethics and how they provide the content for examination questions. The big learning here is orientation to the style of the questions and a recommended proposed method of engaging the examination. Insured here is the review of Competencies and highlights of the Code of Ethics. This session is more of a conversation than period of teaching.

 

Avoidance of Transference/Counter - Transference 1 Hour Synchronous

 

A big obstacle in the effectiveness of great coaching is the issue of coaching transference. By and large it is a matter of awareness and discipline to stay clinically clear of integrating ones (the coaches) issues into the coaching encounter. Examples of transference are presented in the session, so students observe the contaminating effects of transference and in some cases the lack of knowledge/awareness by the coach. The definition of transference is reviewed along with a conversation on how to control transference issues along with keeping track of one’s agenda. The final point is to attempt to identify various types of transference and conscious ways to avoid interjecting personal biases or qujestions.

 

Closing of the Professional Coaching Course 1 ½ Hour Synchronous

 

The closing of The Profession Course ends with the taking of the End of Course Comprehension Quiz, review of the Course Objectives, taking the End of Course Evaluation and handing out the course completion certificates. A final video is shown to motivate the OLC Coaching Spirit and the course is dismissed with final instructions for further growth and development.

 

This ends The OLC Professional Coaching Course

 

Home Work First Day 2 Hours Asynchronous

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Half of the group (Group A) will prepare a 15-minute presentation on the highlights of day one and present it in the first block of the morning.

 

Students will read the two articles concerning “Coaching the Who” and be prepared to discuss the content in class.

 

Students are to watch one of the videos below and be prepared to integrate the learning into the session on Conversational Intelligence.

https://youtu.be/yLHSuSEKGuM

https://youtu.be/5L5mPACPgpA

Develop a five minute (5) presentation on your assigned ICF Core Competency (See Assignment Sheet). Review ICF YouTube Videos on the Competency. Email a copy of your outline/notes of your presentation to course facilitator.

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Homework Second Day 2 Hours Asynchronous

Half of the group (Group B) will prepare a 15-minute presentation on the highlights of day two and present it in the first block of the morning.

Read the information on the Coach Credentialing Examination in the Appendix and review the ICF Code of Ethics.

Watch the video by Simon Sinek: and ponder its relevance to the coaching encounter and present-day organizational culture.

https://youtu.be/lU3R0ot18bg

https://youtu.be/9D8rurK4fzQ

 

The Professional Coaching Course Coaching Mentor Calls 12 Hours Synchronous

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 L1 and L2 Observed Coaching and Mentoring

 

Observed Coaching Sessions

 

In our 70-hour Level 1 Course (The Primer and Competent Courses) there are 16 observed coaching opportunities embedded in the course curriculum. These sessions range from 5 min in the first few sessions to 20 minutes toward the end of the course. Mentioned later will be the coaching integration calls (Mentor Coaching) that will offer sessions more than 30 minutes and cover a full coaching session with written feedback. The observed coaching sessions in the L1 curriculum are tied to the skills being taught in the parallel block of instruction and are aimed to focus on the skill being emphasized just before the observed coaching session. Over these 16 sessions the time segments are 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, and 20 minutes. These tend to unfold along the 5 steps of the OLCI Dialogue Model (Determine the Need - Decide the Direction - Design the Strategy - Disrupt the Obstacles - Describe the Actions) in that it takes a longer time to get to the later steps in the model. As the course moves into The Competent Course (the later 40 hours) the OLCI Re-Engineered Dialogue Model (Establish Expanded Reality – Seek What is Helpful – Explore the Deeper Issue – Structure Sustained Stability - Exercise Targeted Support) is used to calibrate development and insight.

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In our 62-hour Level 2 Course (The Professional Course) there are 10 observed coaching opportunities embedded in the course curriculum. 5 of these (with formal written feedback) are in the mentor portion of the course and the other 5 are in the blocks of instruction during curriculum (with written student/faculty informal feedback). 

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There are a total of 26 observed coaching opportunities embedded in the course curriculum of 132 total hours of the Level 1 & 2 courses. 

 

Session Process

 

In many cases, the curriculum coaching sessions are in a dyad or triad depending on the number of students. If a triad is used the third participant is the student observer and offers feedback to the coach. In the OLCI our policy is to always have two certified L1 or L2 Master Trainers/Instructors and an intern in the room/class. These three (master certified trainers/instructors and intern) move in and out of sessions (coaching dyads/triads - breakout rooms virtually) making observations to be shared at the end of the coaching period. The feedback always starts with how the coach feels/thinks he/she did in the session and what would they improve if they had the chance. We ask the coach to comment on what went well and what could be improved. Then we turn to the coachee and ask how the experience was for them and what observations they would offer. If a student observer was present, we ask what feedback they would offer. After these comments the trainer observer offers comments directed at the level being calibrated on the learning/development curb. If this is an online course, we bring all the students from the breakout rooms and the certified training observers offer comments in open forum for all to learn. 4 sessions of L1 are evaluated in formal written feedback - along verbal comments and the final 5 sessions of L2 are evaluated with formal written feedback along with verbal feedback. 

 

Progression of Movement

 

In the progression of movement of the observed coaching sessions we are over the course developing the coaches’ skills and insights to interact with the client (coachee) starting at a basic level then on to that of a more reflective and intuitive competency. Our aim in the beginning observations is to train the coach to see the dynamics of the issues that emerge (possible focus items) on the table for consideration - on to synthesizing them into a focus of “essence.” In the Primer Course we are teaching didactically the foundations of coaching methodology and introducing a model of coaching that will start their understanding of intentional movement through (gap) a session. In this early phase we encourage them to tee up the “what” of issues, analyze problems, move toward and set goals, design actions, isolate the persons locus of control (conscious thoughts), seek what is in the façade (present thinking) of the client, then help the client to project an action of intervention. In the Competent Course we raise the focus to the “who” (emotional connection) of matters, shining light on the person, moving beyond goals to aspirations that can undergird sustainably, to notice and treat the person in the midst of a system so that through conscious reflection application can be made with the most focused intention. The coaching observation process moves along this axis in development and the certified trainer observers are ever vigilant to calibrate the level of skills and insights of coaches to grow competency. 

 

You could say we are moving the coaches’ skills… 

 

• From the “what” to the “who”

• From the “problem” to the “person”

• From the “goal” to the “aspirations”

• From the "action” to the "sustainability”

• From the “person” to the “system”

• From the "conscious” to the “unconscious”

• From the "projection” to the "application” 

• From the "simple” to the “complex”

 

In The Professional Coaching Course – L2, we attempt to double down on coaching the “’who’ within the client’s system” with a major emphasis on the integration of the Core Competencies and the PCC Markers. 

 

Mentor Coaching to Each Participant

 

OLCI Mentor Coaching Process and Requirements

 

The three paragraphs below outline and describe the parameters and requirements of our Curriculum Mentor Coach Program (32 total hours). As noted after each course phase (The Primer and Competent Courses) there is an integration phase (6 hours and 9 hours prospectively) we render that is our Curriculum Mentor Coach Program for L1. Before the requirements of the Level 1 Conversion were published, we already had these practices in place, we are simply adding the PCC Internal Evaluation Requirements. Please read the three sections below and I will describe at the end our process as revised to meet the Level 2 Requirements. (In short, we added a 5-hour one-on-one segment to The Professional - L2 course along with 3 (four hour) Mentor Coaching Practicums – also see below in OLCI Professional Terminal Coaching Mentor Phase Evaluation (1) Asynchronous and (4) Synchronous)

 

The OLCI Primer Coaching Integration Calls (6 hrs) Synchronous

 

After the formal twenty-five hours of the The Primer Coaching Course, six hours of integration (Mentor) coach training is offered to students who complete the course. During each call two students are allowed to coach for 20 minutes each with feedback both verbally and 2 written. During the coaching sessions coaches are evaluated by the standards of the Core Competencies of the International Coach Federation. In addition to the coaching sessions, additional coaching technique and knowledge are provided to continue the learning of the coaches for professional development. The OLCI Primer Coaching Course ends with these six sessions and the competency level of students at The Primer Coach level. Each student coaches at least twice.

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The OLCI Competent Coaching Integration Calls (9) Synchronous

 

After the formal thirty-four hours of the The Competent Coaching Course, nine hours of integration (Mentor) coach training is offered to students who complete the course. During each call two students are allowed to coach for 30 minutes each with feedback both verbally and 2 written. During the coaching sessions coaches are evaluated by the standards of the Core Competencies of the International Coach Federation and are expected to integrate the learning from both The Primer and Competent Courses. In addition to the coaching sessions, additional coaching technique and knowledge are provided to continue the learning of the coaches for professional development. The academic portion (still have the 5 hours of mentor one-on-one coaching to go – see below) of the OLCI Competent Coaching Course ends with these nine sessions and the competency level of students at The Competent Course level and prepared to engage the ICF Credentialing Exam at the International Coach Federation. Each student coaches at least twice.

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OLCI Competent L1 Terminal Coaching Mentor Phase Evaluation (1 hr) Asynchronous and (4 hrs) Synchronous

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The OLCI Competent Coach Courses’ final requirement is the attendance of 3 one-on-one mentor coaching sessions with an OLCI Mentor Coach/Team (PCC Credentialed and PCC Markers Trained) and the submission of a 40–50-minute coaching session using solid ICF Competency Coaching technique and skill. The student coach is to coach a student peer (only the student coach, student peer and Mentor/s coaches are in the session) in the first 2 mentor sessions with formal verbal and written feedback from the Certified Mentor Coach and peer. After the session we have the student coach and his peer to fill out an OLCI Coaching Evaluation Form on the session that has been loaded into his/her Dropbox. The Evaluation Forms are summitted to the Mentor Coach and is part of the academic record of the student coach. These 2 sessions provide 2 of the required written feedbacks for the Level 1 requirements (the earlier written feedback are not counted for the Level 1 written feedback requirements). 

 

The final requirement is for a coach to conduct and record a formal coaching session with a client of 30 minutes plus using formal OLCI Training, ICF Core Competency and Ethics. After the session the coach is to listen to his/her coaching session and fill out an OLCI Coaching Evaluation Form on him/herself and submit it with the recording. We also ask the coach to request and pay for a formal transcription of the session that is separated by each person’s comment and time stamped. They are to load the recording and transcription into their file in Dropbox and set up a final 2-hour session with the OLCI Mentor Coach assigned to their formal evaluation process. We provide an example of what we expect and suggest a vendor and product to purchase to conform to the requirements. When the OLCI Mentor receives the recording and transcript, it is evaluated by 2 OLCI Credentialed Mentor Coaches and feedback is recorded on an OLCI Coaching Feedback Form prepared by the assigned Certified Mentor Coach. The Assigned Mentor Coach will then conduct the 2-hour final one-on-one mentor session by providing the results of the formal ACC Level Evaluation. The OLCI written and verbal feedback is to be the most thorough and candid evaluation for the entire Institute and is intended to detail any growing edges along with final Coaching Acknowledgments. The coach is either approved to apply for ACC advancement or unapproved. In the event of non-approval, the coach can submit up to two more final recording/transcripts to attempt to gain approval over a six-month period. The approved coaches at this point are ACC Competent Coaches and ready to engage the ICF questions on the Credentialing Exam at the International Coach Federation.

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The OLCI Professional Coaching Practicums (12 hrs) & Individual Mentoring Sessions (5 hr) - Synchronous

 

During the formal 62 hours of the The Professional Coaching Course, 3 four-hour Practicums (Mentor) and 5 hours are Individual Mentor coaching are offered to students who complete the course. The 12 hour mentor coaching are periods of peer coaching with the final two sessions formally evaluated in writing by a PCC Marker Trained Mentor Coach. The PCC Marker Trained Mentor Coach then works with the coach to provide 5 hrs of Individual Mentor Coaching with two formal PCC Marker evaluations in writing. These sessions are done with a peer student and one with a real-world client – full transcripts and recording are required and filed in the students record. A total of 17 hours of mentor coaching is offered in The Professional Course.