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The Diploma coaching model

The 6Cs Integrative Framework

The 6Cs Integrative Framework has been developed to blend a number of leading coaching

styles to form the most comprehensive and flexible approach yet to coaching taking in the whole person from their behaviours through to the core issues that drive them.

The Diploma in Coaching Excellence is built upon the Smart School’s 6Cs Integrative Framework which encapsulates the leading coaching disciplines available today to create a uniquely flexible, rigorous and powerful coaching approach.

The framework ensures that our coaches master the universal person-centred skills necessary for all coaching as well as a range of specific tools and techniques to help unlock the client at the right time.

The 6 Cs

Collaboration: Building powerful working partnerships for the client success
Connection: Developing genuine rapport and presence for a safe space for the coaching journey
Curiosity: Creating a desire and fascination to understand and grow through robust self-inspection
Challenge: Helping the client confront their own limitations and move past beliefs which have held them back
Create: The ability to inspire and generate new insights, options and possibilities to create a new future
Change: Supporting and holding to account to help the client move to real action which makes a difference

Held securely by these 6Cs the client is represented by the person’s layers with which you will work, from the most obvious such as their behaviour to the most hidden such as their driving values.

You will learn to work with using different approaches:

Behaviour: This is all the stuff we do. The tasks we perform, the way we act, our habits, our patterns. Usually behaviour is simply the tip of the iceberg for what has created it but it gives us a clear starting point for seeing how the person shows up in the world.

A lot of early coaching focused on behaviour and performance and they remain key aspects of coaching. From this early coaching style we take the tools from behavioural coaching.

Communication: Communication is words, body language and all the other subtle ways someone demonstrates and symbolises what is going on inside themselves.

Communication allows us to see what picture of the world someone is creating for themselves and how they are empowering or limiting themselves.

You’ll learn a range of tools, particularly from NLP, which will enable you to become a master of understanding and questioning the communication of your clients to help them become more in control of their world.

Cognition: This is the client’s conscious and unconscious thinking. These can be automatic, negative thoughts which hold someone back with the voice in the head that says “you can’t”. Or it can be powerful and determined thoughts that allow someone to dream, plan and challenge themselves to further success.

You will learn a number of key models emerging from cognitive behavioural coaching which will ensure you can work effectively with the thought patterns of your clients.

Emotions: Emotions are key to successful coaching since they are usually the final kick that will create action or lead to procrastination. Emotional development can be an end in itself in coaching depending on the people you are working with or it can be a part of a wider outcome.

You’ll become adept at dealing with emotions and the impact they have in holding people back or moving them forward. You’ll learn specific approaches from emotional intelligence and cognitive behavioural coaching to work with great affect at this level.

Drivers: Drivers are those things that make us do the things we do.

Often we’re not even aware of them until we bang up against them. A value is undermined. A need is not met. A belief is contradicted. These drivers form the core of our personality and with it the place that change has the greatest effect.

Working with approaches from NLP, Existentialism, Gestalt and Transactional Analysis you will learn to work at a deep transformational level.