Online Class: Business Coaching

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12

Lessons
13

Exams &
Assignments
170

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5

Hours
average time
0.5

CEUs

Course Description

Choosing a career in business coaching can be a long and rewarding experience. You can start your career as a business coach using the knowledge and experience you developed on your own. In order to have a fully functioning and successful coaching career, you must seek out a few things before you get started. This course will serve as a guide for your business coaching certification and properly prepare you for what you will face in your career. A few of the topics covered in this course include:

· Business Coaching Niches

o Business coaching covers a wide array of professions, industries, and markets. Coaches can choose to narrow down the field and specialize in a specific business niche. This course will cover how to choose your niche and the advantages and disadvantages of specialization

· Creating A Business Plan

o Coaching is still a business, no matter what your focus is. Business coaches may have the experience necessary to effectively guide clients in the business world, but they have never created their own coaching business. This guide has all the steps involved in creating a business coaching service, including your licensing and certification requirements, and how to plan for growth in your career.

· Development and Continued Education

o You never stop learning as a business coach! Progress in your business coaching career cannot happen if you do not continue your education. This will include how you can expand your career and coaching certification on your own, and further develop your skills.

These are only a sampling of what you will learn in the course. We challenge you to take the next step and become the greatest business coach in the industry!

Completely Online

Self-Paced

Printable Lessons

Full HD Video

6 Months to Complete

24/7 Availability

Start Anytime

PC & Mac Compatible

Android & iOS Friendly

Accredited CEUs

Universal Class is an IACET Accredited Provider

Course Lessons

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Lesson 1: An Introduction to a Business Coaching Career

This lesson will outline information on the standard business coaching process, what business coaching is, and who uses it. 50 Total Points

Lesson 1 Video
Review 5 Videos: What is Business Coaching?; What is business coaching like?; What is business coaching? Is it right for you?; Business Coaching to Grow Your Income; Business Coaching Lessons - Top 3 Tips
Take Survey: Reasons for Taking this Course
Complete: Lesson 1 Quiz

Lesson 2: The Demand and Driving Forces of Business Coaching

This lesson will cover many aspects, such as the demand for business coaching, the forces behind the service, the impact it can have on your business, and how you can use this information to your advantage. 45 Total Points

Lesson 2 Video
Review 3 Articles: The business coaching industry is booming; Business Coaching in the US: Market Research Report; Why executive coaching is back in vogue
Complete: Lesson 2 Quiz

Lesson 3: Coaching Niches

As you prepare to begin your business coaching career, it is important that you familiarize yourself with all of its aspects. Within business coaching, there are several niches that your clients may be a part of and that you can choose to specialize in. 50 Total Points

Lesson 3 Video
Review Article: How To Choose The Perfect Niche For Your Coaching Business
Review 2 Videos: Coaching Business Success: How To Choose Your Coaching Niche and Target Market; Top Coaching Niches - Why Become a Coach?
Complete: Lesson 3 Quiz

Lesson 4: The Coaching Process

This lesson will expand on the coaching process covered in the first lesson. Remember, these steps are not a firm outline that you are required to follow to a "T." Changes can be made and you should consider implementing a degree of flexibility into your own coaching process design. 50 Total Points

Lesson 4 Video
Review 4 Articles: A 6-Step Process to Be a Better Business Coach | Inc.com; Coaching Process; The Key To Effective Coaching; The 4 Stages of an Executive Coaching Intervention
Complete: Lesson 4 Quiz

Lesson 5: The Skills Required for Business Coaching

This lesson will cover some of the most common and prized skills in the business coaching industry. While there are additional skills that you may bring in that you acquired through experience, the following are typically the main skills you will use as a business coach. 50 Total Points

Lesson 5 Video
Review 3 Articles: 5 Essential Skills for Successful Coaching; The 8 Key Skills For Effective Coaching; 5 Coaching Skills That Every Manager Needs To Have
Complete: Lesson 5 Quiz

Lesson 6: Your Development in Business Coaching

This lesson will cover additional aspects of your education that you might not think of when you begin. It also will discuss how you can continue your education and development as a business coach for years to come. 50 Total Points

Lesson 6 Video
Review Article: How to Be a Small Business Consultant ? 18 Step Checklist
Complete: Lesson 6 Quiz

Lesson 7: Getting Started

This lesson will include information on the preparations you need to do for the formation of your business coaching service, including aspects like your business plan, the structure of your service, and the logistics of what you plan on offering to your clients. 50 Total Points

Lesson 7 Video
Review 2 Articles: How To Start A Coaching Business; 10 Ways to Kick Start Your Coaching Business
Review 2 Videos: Starting your own Coaching Business; How to Create a Business Plan in 10 Steps
Complete: Lesson 7 Quiz

Lesson 8: Business Requirements and Necessities

This lesson will discuss the different requirements you may have to meet in order to start working with clients as a business coach. 50 Total Points

Lesson 8 Video
Review 4 Articles: 10 Steps to Starting a Business; Checklist for Starting a Business; Start My Small Business Resources; How To Start Your Business: Your Legal Requirements
Review Video: What Is Needed To Start A Business?
Complete: Lesson 8 Quiz

Lesson 9: Finances

This lesson will cover the financial aspects of your business coaching career, including setting your prices for your services, managing your business expenses, billing options, record keeping, and insurance information. 50 Total Points

Lesson 9 Video
Review 4 Articles: Planning For Your Coaching Business' Financial Success; How Business Coaches Can Become Very Wealthy; Guidance for the Self-Employed and Sole Proprietors; 10 Hidden Costs Of Running A Small Business
Complete: Lesson 9 Quiz

Lesson 10: Human Resources

This lesson will cover some of the basics for employees, including the hiring process, training, termination, and other legalities you will need to consider for your business coaching service. 50 Total Points

Lesson 10 Video
Review 3 Articles: Recruitment and Selection Hiring Process; A Step-By-Step Process to Hiring; The 50 Best Marketing Strategies For Small Business
Review Video: How the Hiring Process Works
Complete: Lesson 10 Quiz

Lesson 11: Marketing Tools and Strategies

The final stage of preparing for your business coaching career is marketing. Your business coaching service and career are not going to survive and be successful if you are not able to adequately market your services. Understanding aspects of marketing like the audience and strategies needed to reach them as a business coach is vital if you wish to thrive. 40 Total Points

Lesson 11 Video
Review Article: 5 Keys to a Great Small Business Marketing Strategy
Review 3 Videos: 7 Small Business Marketing Strategies - Top small business marketing strategies; Five Low Cost Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses; Small Business Marketing 101: Creating a Marketing Plan
Complete: Lesson 11 Quiz

Lesson 12: Organization Memberships

For this lesson, three of the major business coaching organizations will be discussed, The International Coach Federation (ICF), The Worldwide Associate of Business Coaches (WABC), and The International Association of Coaching (IAC). The lesson also will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of joining a professional business coaching organization. 550 Total Points

Lesson 12 Video
Take Poll: End of Course Poll
Take Survey: Course Comments
Take Survey: Program Evaluation Follow-up Survey (End of Course)
Complete: Lesson 12 Quiz
Complete: The Final Exam

1085

Total Course Points

Learning Outcomes

By successfully completing this course, students will be able to:

Define what it means to be a business coach and what to expect from it as a career.
Describe the demand and driving forces of business coaching.
Recognize coaching niches.
Define the coaching process.
Summarize the skills required for business coaching.
Summarize business requirements and necessities.
Summarize finances needed to start and run a business coaching practice.
Define marketing tools and strategies, and
Demonstrate mastery of lesson content at levels of 70% or higher.

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