Frequently asked coach questions

Coaching is a partnership with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process to inspire them to maximize their personal and professional potential. Clients are encouraged to self-discover and set action goals to lead to a more desirable future.

Coaching is one of the fastest growing professions in the world today. While one does not take a board exam, nor is there state licensing or educational prerequisites – you may find it beneficial to become ICF credentialed to be successful. Credentialing demonstrates that you have the training and core competencies to be a coach and are affiliated with an organization that provides on-going learning and are a member of a community of best practices. 

ICF is the gold standard of coaching throughout the world with membership exceeding 35,000 in 139 countries.

Becoming a Certified Professional Coach means you're an invaluable partner for a business, individual, or team as you support and guide them through their challenges using proven and specific techniques that you learn through the Coach Certification Training Academy training process. 

Coaching has become very popular because it works! Coaches support their clients to self-discover and own their goals and outcomes. We deliver this service in a safe environment that is free from judgement, shame, or blame. We ask thought-provoking questions that will allow our clients to make their best choices for behavior and attitude shifts leading to a more desirable future. We treat clients with respect and honor their values and beliefs. 

Coaching is for entrepreneurial minded individuals who want to achieve their highest potential and help others reach theirs as well. Becoming a Certified Professional Coach empowers you to develop your own practice, assisting individuals and entire organizations with achieving their goals.

Coaches can be trained for internal and external engagements. We train to the universal core competencies and best practices as demonstrated through ICF core competencies, code of ethics and values. 

Earning a coaching certification provides an enhancement to your experience – and your resume. Many executives and leaders become certified coaches to develop their communication skills and emotional self-discipline to better lead and to more effectively manage their teams and the performance and growth of their organizations. 

At this time the coaching industry does not require any state of local licensing, therefore anyone can call themselves a coach. It is important that you set yourself apart and provide the assurance to your clients that you have been properly trained and engage with clients in an effective and ethical manner. Becoming a Certified Professional Coach through the Coach Certification Training Academy will demonstrate to the public at large that you have been properly trained and engaged in the highest level of ethical conduct. Being trained by an ICF Accredited training program is key to your success. The Coach Certification Training Academy is an ICF Approved Training program for Approved Coach Specific Training Hours (ACSTH) and we prepare you to be credentialed by ICF. 

There are no educational or professional pre-requisites to become a coach. However, many coaches have advanced degrees and transferable experiences and skills, they are not required. 

Anyone can and probably should take a coach certification training course. By becoming a certified coach, you will gain valuable knowledge to help you grow both professionally and personally.     

Some of our previous students are:

• Internal HR Professionals and Managers
• Training Directors
• Business Executives
• Corporate Leaders
• Association Leaders Management and Staff 
• Business Managers
• First and Second Line Managers
• Team Leaders
• Business Owners 
• Entrepreneurs
• Professionals who desire an encore career
• Diversity and Inclusion Officers
• Employees who are identified as Emerging Leaders
• Licensed Clinical Social Workers
• Health and Nutrition Coaches
• Clinical Psychologists
• Community and Religious Leaders
• Those who have a passion to help others

You should consider becoming a certified coach if you:
 

• Enjoy helping others 
• Manage a team and want to instill a coaching mindset into yourself and your team
• Are affiliated with HR or are SHRM certified
• Have a high performing employee who is ready for the next step
• Feel you are ready to take the next step in your career
• Are retired and are seeking a second career 
• Are unhappy with your current career trajectory and are ready to start a new path
• Have an entrepreneurial mindset and want to manage your own business 
• Are looking for a career that intersects with your passion to help people
• Want to make a change in your life

Our virtual courses are delivered without compromise to the content. We have in place the renowned peer to peer observed coaching practices, complete with facilitator’s feedback that has become the hallmark for effective coaching training.  

We will provide you training through proven efficient and affordable courses that have a track record of success for our graduates. And, most importantly, we are an ICF Accredited Program. We value our students and take great pride in their growth and development. 

When you finish the Certified Professional Coach - Level 1 Course, you will have passed an exam and demonstrated your coaching skills and will be awarded the degree of Certified Professional Coach.  After completing Level 2, you will receive all your training documents to upload to ICF to become a credentialed coach.

You will receive a diploma suitable for framing and official transcripts as evidence of your ICF approved training hours and your readiness to be an effective coach. 

• You will have successfully demonstrated your knowledge and skills through the challenges the courses have presented to you. 
• You will have learned the foundation principles of coaching, the globally accepted core competencies, code of conduct and ethical best practices as defined by the International Coaching Federation. 
• You will have coached, been observed demonstrating those skills and been provided expert feedback by a successful ICF Coach. 
• You will have successfully passed a learning objective exam. 

Your instructors have their own independent coaching practices and will be available to answer your questions and provide you direction, guidance, and mentorship on getting your practice started. The rest is up to you.  

The Instructors at the Coach Certification Training Academy, have taught in-person classroom training and created a virtual classroom environment. We have designed this virtual classroom to provide the same group synergies and natural growth to occur as an in-person class. Each of our programs are 30 hours, comprised of approximately 10 hours of pre-work and 20 hours of virtual classroom training. We also designed it to prepare you to become a professional coach in an intensive and affordable method in just 5 weeks without compromising the Group practice and “live” demonstrations that have helped others like you develop and grow your skills. Special attention will focus on the Code of Ethics and Core Competencies.   

Our CEO and Director of Training, Janice Coe, ACC (PCC pending) is ICF Credentialed, an experienced coach with a successful coaching practice. She is also an experienced, ICF registered mentor coach, providing you continuity as you continue your coaching journey, and to meet your credentialing requirements going forward. This program meets all the requisite training hours as required by the International Coach Federation.   

From the comfort and safety of your home, office or home office, you can become a Certified Professional Coach and start coaching clients and earning income. The average credentialed coach is earning $80.00 to $150.00 an hour coaching individual clients and much more as they build their practice and provide services to executives and organizations. Upon completion of this course you will want to take the next step to credentialing by ICF. 

Our Professional Coaches provide an ongoing partnership designed to help clients produce fulfilling results in their personal and professional lives. Our coaches help students improve their performance and enhance the quality of their lives and of those they coach. We provide a safe, nonjudgmental environment that is completely confidential and allows for the student’s/client’s needs, values, culture, and traditions to be honored and supported.

We will set reasonable standards for expectations and accountability in order to assure our students are progressing at a pace and timeline that is in the client’s best interest. Our facilitators are all members in good standing with the International Coach Federation, and agree to honor all ethical obligations to their clients and colleagues and to the public at large.

Our Professional Coaches and Certification Trainers will promote the Coaching Profession in a manner that will result in the greater good of our clients, students and their future clients. We will exercise patience in order to hear and understand the unique and personal needs of each and every one of our clients and students. We will never put a monetary reward above the best interest of our clients and students. We will never misrepresent our level of competence or cross over into an area of which we do not have the proper training or expertise

We will honor the nature and values of each of our clients and students in all endeavors at all times. 

The International Coach Federation (ICF), is the gold standard for world-wide coach credentialing. Becoming an ICF credentialed coach, makes the statement that you are a trained professional who holds the gold standard of coaching credentials. It opens up new pathways for you; a satisfaction equation that you are providing a great service to others; a career choice that utilizes the best of who you are; and additionally, there are monetary rewards.

Through the Coach Certification Training Academy, you can fulfill all your training requirements to earn 60 Hours of Training based on International Coaching Federation core competencies, ethics and values. Your instructors are ICF Credentialed and ICF Registered Mentor Coaches.   

Becoming a Certified Professional Coach (Level 1 Course) is the first step in what has the potential to a very gratifying and lucrative career. If you so desire, you may want to continue your coaching education and become an International Coaching Federation Credentialed Coach, an Associate Certified Coach or ACC (Level 2 Course). 

In order to achieve this goal you will need to complete an additional course of 30 hours of training. Here at CCTA we offer that course Building Your Professional Coaching Skills, or Level 2. This course has the same format of 5 modules over 5 weeks and is offered at the same price. You are encouraged to go to the ICF website and learn more about the additional requirements.

We recommend this course if you are serious about your professional skills and want to open the doors to engagements in the coaching business space. 

The Certified Professional Coach (CPC), represents your first tier coaching training and may be all that you personally need or want. You can represent yourself as a well-trained and effective Professional Coach. 

However, in some situations a client or sponsor will require evidence of more advanced training in order to bid on a proposal or engage in a business setting. In that case, and if you want to work in the corporate space, you will want to consider the additional training provided by the Coach Certification Training Academy.