Coaching Program Management

91This blog series is focused on starting and managing a coaching program within your organization.  Pulling it together now, here is a tool to plan your implementing and managing a coaching program: a table with a list of tasks and room for estimating your time and budget.

Start-up: Time Budget
Coach training for the program administrator(s)
Researching and creating a presentation to develop organizational buy-in
Designing the program and creating the program manual
Planning and preparing program resources
Sources and contracting with external consulting, coaches, and training
Planning coach training for coaches
Identifying and recruiting the internal coaches
Identifying and engaging coachees
Planning and facilitating program orientation for coaches and coachees
Organizational education on the coaching program
Other?

Totals

On-going Administration: Time Budget
Coach recruiting, training, and coaching
Coachee engagement
Matching coaches with coachees
Responding to inquiries and challenges
Managing and providing resources
Tracking and reporting outcomes
Other?

Totals

Resources to get you started with your researching include:

Helpful Videos on YouTube:

Creating a Coaching Program Manual: http://youtu.be/qHFeONsNr0M

Establishing a Coaching Program: http://youtu.be/dPEwo5OBxkk

Coach Training: http://youtu.be/TF5myRxdtgI

Plus there are a number of great articles on coaching programs at http://libraryofprofessionalcoaching.com/?s=coaching+program+management&x=0&y=0

For more on effectively managing specific challenges that arise, follow this blog series now.

Cathy Liska

For content specific to coach training and coaching, guest blog posts are welcome.

Most blog posts here are written or curated by Cathy Liska, Guide from the Side®, CDP, MCC.

Cathy is CEO/Founder of the Center for Coaching Certification, CCC. As Guide from the Side®, she is a sought-after trainer and coach with over 30 years of experience in business management and ownership. Cathy built her diverse team at CCC that includes trainers, customer service, and coaches. She was Co-Leader for ICF’s Ethics Community of Practice, on the Leadership Team for the review and updating of the Code of Ethics in 2024, and active in the Ethics Water Cooler. To ensure she stays current in related areas of expertise, Cathy has earned the following: ICF’s Master Certified Coach (MCC), Certified Coach Trainer, Certified Consumer Credit Counselor, Certificate of Excellence in Nonprofit Leadership and Management, Grief Support Group Facilitator, Certified in the Drucker Self-Assessment Tool, Certified Apartment Manager, Certified Civil and Family Mediator, and Certified in DISC.

Cathy’s clients range from attorneys to corporate executives, government to nonprofit, entrepreneurs to children, under or unemployed to newly retired. She specializes in communication, management, conflict, and leadership. Her personal mission statement is “People.” Cathy is known for her passion to serve others so they achieve the results they want.

Podcast: https://www.coachcert.com/podcast.html

Publications: Coaching Perspectives (a series of books with chapters by coach training graduates) https://www.coachcert.com/resources/recommended-reading/coaching-perspectives-series-by-the-center-for-coaching-certification-and-more.html

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