Course Content: Balance™ Licensing Training Programme
The course content of the Balance coaching licensing training programme is as follows:
Objectives
- Gain familiarity with the Balance™ Questionnaire, the thinking and research behind it
- Know about the Balance™ Coaching Toolkit and the client scenarios when certain exercises may be useful
- Develop awareness of the different situations in which the Balance™ Questionnaire and Coaching Toolkit may be able to support career discussions and development workshops
- Increase your knowledge of ways to integrate Balance™ to your working context
What does the Licensing training involve?
- completion of the Balance™ questionnaire
- one day Workshop
- a coaching supervision session to support your early work with clients (face-to-face, Skype or telephone)
All Licensees will receive:
- a Certificate
- an electronic copy of the Balance™ Coaching Toolkit
- one hard and one soft copy of the Balance™ Questionnaire
Programme
Course content:
9.00 Introductions & background to the development of Balance™
Objectives:
- To know about the background to the development of the Balance Questionnaire and Toolkit
- To be able to describe the seven factors
- To understand that exploring the balance between employer and employee drivers can be beneficial to both
9.45 Debriefing your Balance™ Questionnaire results
Objectives:
- To become more clear about your own Balance strengths and development areas
- To indicate that there is no objective measure of balance – it is a coaching tool, and the discussion is driven by the coachee
- To reinforce that there is no ideal, or correct way, of achieving balance, and that balance may not always be a desirable state
10.45 The Coaching Toolkit: Overview and pairs practices
Objectives:
- To become familiar with the toolkit
- To have some idea of what exercises might suit different situations
- To practice using exercises from the Balance™ Coaching Toolkit
12.30 Lunch
1.30 Pairs practice (continued)
4.00 Integrating Balance™ into your coaching work
Objectives:
- To identify the kind of client scenarios where Balance™ could ad value
- To consider ways to integrate the use of Balance™ into your career coaching