Why We're Dropping Our IAC Coaching Masteries(tm) License
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As you may have noticed with our Free Coach Training announcement, and our Manifesto, School of Coaching Mastery is shaking things up a bit.
One more change that we're making is that from now on, our regular students, once they're certified by us, will be licensed at no extra charge, to teach our coaching curriculum to whomever they want.
Why are we doing this? It's part of our mission to spread the value of quality coaching and coach training. We believe the days of huge coach training schools are coming to an end. In the future, people will seek out specialty coach training from coaches they admire, or they will be trained via universities or employers. Our Certified Coaches will be among those teaching coaching.
Plus, I won't be training coaches forever. I have other projects that I'd love to have more time for. I see my students picking up where I leave off to continue expanding the quality and value of coaching worldwide.
Are we licensing all our materials to our Certified Coaches? Pretty much, yes. However, we can't relicense the IAC Coaching Masteries(tm), so we are going to remove specific mentions of them from our teaching materials and will not renew that license when it comes due in December 2010. As you may know, we have philosophical differences with the IAC over the license, itself, anyway.
I had a school-wide conversation with my students before we launched the Free Coach Training Program and they feel fine about this change. Not all of them are interested in IAC Certification and dropping our license won't hurt those who do want it. We expect to continue to be a leader in prepping coaches who go on to become IAC Certified, even without the license.
This means that many of our Certified Coach Training Program modules will not be available after December 2010. If you've been thinking you want to work with us to become an IAC Certified Coach, you need to do it now. We have both recorded and live courses that specifically prep for IAC Certification. Watch for announcements about what's available.
I also will be doing just one more Certification Bootcamp weekend this Fall. If you missed the one we did in June, be sure to join this last one. It's for advanced coaches who are ready to step up and get certified, now.
Oh and speaking of certifications, we're adding an optional Certified Coach Trainer program to our Full Coach Training Program. It'll be just one path that will propel our 'graduate level' coaches toward leadership in the coach training profession. But whether they choose to take the CCT program, they will still receive the no-cost license to teach when they become certified by us. More on that later.
By the way, given that we're adding so much value to our coach training, we've decided to change the name to the Ultimate Coach Training Program. ;-)
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