Is LifeBound Coaching Certification Right For You? 

An Opportunity for Feedback, Reflection, Mastery and Personal Growth 

Why certification? Among the many benefits of the certification process are feedback opportunities and space and time for reflection. Any faculty or staff member in higher education today knows how difficult it is to escape the whitewater of daily tasks and crises and find time to reflect carefully on one's performance. Substantive feedback from supervisors and others requires time and focus and is hard to come by. Without reflection and feedback, growth can be limited.

The LifeBound certification program is structured to build feedback and reflection into your life while helping you reach master coach status. Through being observed coaching and observing others, cohort members address their own challenges and build skill and confidence. Through being coached, cohort members reflect on their journeys and discover new avenues. The experience creates a new level of self-knowledge and coaching competence that translates into serving students more effectively every day. May certified coaches comment that while the goal of certification is to become the best coach they can be for others, this process feeds them more than almost any other professional development experience.

Faculty and staff who have completed a LifeBound 3-day coaching training are eligible to apply for the LifeBound individual certification training. LifeBound runs certification cohorts three times a year -- in the fall (September through December), winter/spring (January through April), and summer (May through August). Certification cohorts meet once a month as a group, and the process also involves receiving coaching as well as meeting with cohort members to coach and be coached in three different pairs so that you can achieve coaching mastery on multiple levels with students, staff, peers and administrators.

Learn more about cost and certification elements, and find the application form, at this link to determine if this is right for you and your professional goals. Most people who pursue certification are interested in improving their own coaching skills and/or running a program where they manage others to establish and grow a campus-wide culture of coaching.

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