Coach Training for Leaders
Do you want to learn coaching skills so that you can use this proven, effective approach to empowering individuals, relationships, teams, and organizations? Our credentialing path programs equip you with transformational coaching skills and culminate in attainment of your coach credentials. The six-month training program involves 60 hours of experiential face-to-face learning, using quality materials and led by excellent, experienced coaches and trainers. The other major component of the training is mentor coaching, which helps new coaches hone their coaching skills.
Coaching is a powerful relationship where trained coaches assist individuals and organizations in designing their future by clarifying and focusing on their unique gifts and calling, and creating goals and strategies to achieve this future while improving their flow and ease in all of their lives. Coaching both develops the whole person/team and accomplishes the results they are aiming to achieve. In short, coaching helps people become more fully alive. Experience shows that coaching students not only learn to help others in their development, but have huge, transformational learning themselves.
Each three-day training event is designed to provide basic coaching skills and a strong understanding of skills, resources, techniques to support leadership teams in local congregations in moving toward effective ministry. It is a fast-paced, highly interactive training that includes both theory and practice. Participants leave with a set of tools for launching this ministry.
Coach Training for Leaders is accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) for 155 hours of coach-specific education/training. All participants receive coach-specific training hours and a certificate of training at the completion of each training event. Upon completion of 60+ participant contact hours, 5 observed coaching sessions with written feedback, 10 hours of mentor coaching, and a final performance evaluation at the ACC level, participants are issued a Level 1 certificate documenting graduation. (Partial completion credit given for each module, as completed).
Coach Training for Leaders also hosts a monthly Community Call which provides additional support for CTL students and graduates to help them develop their coaching business and make connections with other coaches. The Community Call happens on the second Wednesday of each month, from 1:00-2:00 pm (Eastern).
About Our Training:
- All training modules are presented in English, and are approved by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) as Coach-Specific Training hours.
- Coach Training for Leaders is accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) for 155 hours of coach-specific education/training; You can find Candidate Guides for becoming an Associate Certified Coach (ACC), Professional Certified Coach (PCC), and Master Certified Coach (MCC) through ICF here.
- Our Full Coach Training Program (3 modules, beginning with Coaching Foundations, plus Mentor Coaching) is offered virtually at least once each calendar year via Zoom (click here for upcoming training opportunities).
- In-person training cohorts are scheduled periodically, often sponsored by Annual Conferences, across the continental United States (click here for upcoming training opportunities).
- 10 hours of Mentor Coaching are required for certification; Mentor Coaching is offered twice each year, virtually via Zoom (click here for upcoming opportunities).
- Each module may be used for CEU requirements.
- If you have any questions, or would like more information, please contact Amanda Landry, Operations Manager, Amanda.emc3coaching@gmail.com.
Following the completion of Module 1 (see below), participants in the Coach Training for Leaders program may choose (mix and match) modules that most closely relate to their specific area of interest. Coach Training for Leaders recommends, as the “Full Training Program”, the standard path of Modules 1, 2, and 3, followed by Mentor Coaching.
Training Modules:
- Module 1: Coaching Foundations (20 hours)
- Module 2: Coaching for Leadership (20 hours)
- Module 3: Coaching for Congregational Transformation (20 Hours)
- Module 4: Discipleship Coaching (10 Hours)
- Module 5: Discipleship Pathway Coaching (20 Hours)
- Module 6: Advanced Coaching Skills (20 Hours)
- Module 7: Coaching for Servant-Based Leadership (10 Hours)
- Module 8: Coaching for Adaptive Leadership (20 Hours)
- Module 9: Coaching for a Culture of Hospitality (10 Hours)
- Mentor Coaching: (10 hours: 7 hours of Group and 3 hours of Individual Mentor Coaching)
Total Cost Including Mentor Coaching and Materials:
- Payment plan is available via registration form
- Individual modules (20 hours) are available at a rate of $700 each; the cost of 10-hour modules is $350
- Full Coach Training Program; includes 3 modules (Module 1, plus 40 additional hours of your choice) and Mentor Coaching $3500.00
Ready to take your ministry to a new level?
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Our Introductory Transformation Coaching equips coaches to work within annual conferences to support local congregations in transformation.
Meet Our Experienced Trainers
Dr. Phil Maynard
Executive Director/Trainer
coachdrphil@gmail.com
321/217-6007
Dr. Phil Maynard is widely recognized nationally as a coach, author, trainer, and consultant, working primarily in the areas of congregational development, intentional discipleship, and leadership development. Phil took an early retirement from the Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church, where he served as the Director of Congregational Excellence, to take on a full-time ministry of coaching, training, and consulting.
Phil is an ordained United Methodist clergyperson, a certified coach (ICF), an endorsed coach with the UMC, and certified conflict/mediation coach. He is the author of eight books on topics related to congregational development and discipleship and contributor to several other books. He has developed a wide range of training resources and leads workshops nationwide, equipping pastors and laity for effective ministry. He has also been a presenter at several Annual Conference events.
He is a second career pastor coming from a background of teaching at the University of Central Florida in the Radiologic Sciences Program.
Phil is the Director of Training and Development for Coach Training for Leaders; Director of Excellence in Ministry Coaching; and Director of Readiness 360.
Phil Ayers, PCC
Director of Education
Rev. Phil Ayers, PCC, CMC has served rural, urban, and suburban congregations for 40 years. The majority of his pastoral ministry has centered on congregational revitalization. Phil has also served as a law enforcement chaplain for over 20 years, and currently serves with the Maryland State Police. Phil has an extensive background in sacred music which enhances his ministry. Since January of 2018 Phil has been actively coaching individuals and groups in congregations and in the business world. He has also started a coaching business and is working to establish an international coaching group which concentrates on inclusiveness and cultural diversity. He is trained as an assessor through the International Coaching Federation, and a Certified Mentor Coach. He is certified in Emotional Intelligence Assessment as well as DISC. His website can be found at: ayerscoaching.com
Dr. Jason Zebert
Trainer
Dr. Jason Zebert is a UM Clergy and Associate Certified Coach from Mississippi. He currently serves as Assistant Director of Faith Community Formation and Director of Special Projects for the Mississippi Conference. In this role, he helps to resource new faith communities and transform existing faith communities in this challenging time. He oversees the conference’s Coaching, Mentoring, Leadership Development Programs, and Healing Teams training. He is a Master Trainer for Lead Like Jesus, Way of The Carpenter Facilitator, Certified SYMBIS Facilitator, Biblical DISC/DISC Coach, and Trained Adaptive Change Coach. He finds reward in helping others to discover their identity and giftedness in Christ and helping them to engage those gifts with their communities.
Amanda Landry
Operations Manager
Amanda Landry has a lifetime of experience in the United Methodist Church. As a “preacher’s kid”, she worked several summers on the leadership team at a United Methodist Youth Camp in Florida. She went on to get her Bachelor’s Degree in Education, and to teach and direct at a United Methodist Preschool. She resides in Jensen Beach, FL where her most recent ministry opportunity was as Director of Discipleship at a local UMC, before leaving that position to work full-time for Coach Training for Leaders. She is currently pursuing certification as an Associate Certified Coach.
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