USF Continuing Education - Professional Coaching

Professional Coaching

Professional Coaching Certificate

Become a professional coach in life management, career development, and/or organizational leadership.
Explore how to build rapport, facilitate learning, observe and analyze, question and listen, and provide feedback.
Participate in a coaching practicum with master coach Barbara Wilson, founder of AP3EX Coaching.
Develop your coaching skills for a successful career.

This program is ideal for managers and supervisors, HR and career specialists, counselors, educators, and professional coaching practitioners. The program consists of the following five modules offered in sequence:

The Coaching Process — Five Essential Skills
The Coach's Toolkit
Your Coaching Practice
Altering Attitude, Influencing Actions ... The Coach's Role
Coaching Practicum

The price of $1,632 includes course fee and materials. You must complete all of the modules to earn the certificate.

The Coaching Process — Five Essential Skills

Learn how coaching is a process that requires the capacity to build rapport, facilitate learning, observe and analyze, question and listen, and provide feedback. Evaluate your own level of confidence and competence in these five skills of the coaching process.

The Coach's Toolkit

Examine tools and techniques such as self-assessment profiles, books, articles and worksheets for use with clients. Practice coaching strategies such as reframing, focused listening, effective questioning, and "bubble-up" prioritizing. Review and apply models/frameworks and some "on-the-spot-laser" coaching activities.

Your Coaching Practice

Role-play an initial coaching session and receive feedback on your performance. Present an overview of your client's coaching goals and your next-steps plan with this client. Evaluate your own areas of competency and confidence to identify your coaching niche. Explore how to build, promote, and manage an internal or independent coaching practice.

Altering Attitudes, Influencing Actions ... The Coach's Role

Help people identify counterproductive attitudes that hinder their success. Explore how people's behavior styles influence their beliefs, and how beliefs drive behavior. Identify common stress reaction behaviors, reframe defensive responses, and provide guidance in identifying more productive behaviors in order to achieve desired results.

Coaching Practicum

Participate in a coaching practicum with master coach Barbara Wilson. The practicum consists of 3 one-on-one sessions: 2 individual phone sessions (1½ hours each) and 1 group session (4 hours). During the practicum, you are encouraged to contract with a coaching client on a pro-bono basis and to report your progress to the master coach for feedback and support on your coaching intervention.