Diploma in
Coaching Excellence

Which is the right course for me?

If you want to train as a life coach, executive coach or corporate coach using a range of coaching skills to create change, then the Diploma in Coaching Excellence is for you.

This combines the traditional models of coaching with a whole new set of approaches and techniques drawn from a wide range of styles to create the integrative style and give you flexibility of approach.

If you want to become a highly-skilled NLP Practitioner using the full range of skills such as trance, hypnosis and the wide range of NLP interventions, then our NLP Practitioner and Hypnotherapy course is for you.

Both courses aim to create excellence and this website offers you a full overview.

What makes your courses different?

Our courses were built with the principle question of “What creates excellence?” and that shines through.

The small group training makes sure we can get to know you personally and offer you precise and timely feedback to help you improve. The supervision, which is a core part of all our courses, ensures you are on track in terms of progress towards qualification as well as the quality of your client work.

The monthly meetings, open to both our coaches and NLP practitioners, ensure a regular network to share challenges and seek solutions.

And the online resources, documents and videos along with full course manuals ensure you always have the information you need to hand.

Are your courses accredited?

Credibility in the coaching industry is extremely important. That's why our courses are fully accredited to ensure you can be confident of their quality and standing.

In fact, the Diploma in Coaching Excellence is a recognised UK qualification awarded by the independent body, the Institute of Training and Occupational Learning.

Our NLP course is accredited by the highly respected British Institute of Hypnotherapy and NLP.

We know that you want to feel you have a good backing for your training and our accreditation offers you that assurance.

Who is the Diploma for?

The Diploma in Coaching Excellence is for people who want to train to become a life coach, a performance coach within an organisation or an executive coach.

We particularly attract two kinds of people. We find we are highly sought after by people who want to become independent, self-employed coaches who build their own practice. That’s because we pay a lot of attention to what each coach wants to do with their course after they qualify and we provide the forum and workshops to explore issues like discovering your niche, learning how to market what you do and also looking at other ways to help your target market.

But we also attract HR managers and learning and development professionals who want to learn advanced coaching skills to use within the workplace. In this case, it's the depth of the learning and the formal qualification that makes it so attractive.

What kind of qualities do you need?

This course is for you if you want to become truly excellent at coaching. In other words, it’s not just about getting a certificate – it’s about getting good!

And that means being prepared to put the time into coaching outside of the training weekends, reflect on your practice and engage in the supervision to improve continuously. The course is fun and inspirational but you need to want to learn, to challenge yourself and to take the action needed to become exceptional as a coach.

It’s about finding the passion that makes this whole process make sense, so we’re looking for people who really care about what it means to them to become a coach and to make a difference with what they do.

We also provide a real sense of community and a place for likeminded people to share their coaching journey so it’s important to be happy to mix and bond with your fellow coaches.

Overall we attract positive, determined people who want the coaching course to make a difference in some way to their lives and are enthused about the journey.

How is the course different?

There are plenty of coaching courses out there. So what’s makes ours different?

We can sum up the difference in three phrases: integrative coaching, real qualification, highly practical.

Firstly, the diploma teaches the latest developments in coaching which have emerged from coaching psychology and fuses a range of styles into the integrative framework we call the 6Cs. You will learn coaching skills that few other schools teach. Time and again this has been highlighted by our coaches as one of the most attractive elements of the school when they joined. Ultimately, it’s one of the things that will turn you into an exceptional coach.

Our course offers a real qualification because although we teach the skills and provide the support, the certificate and record of success is awarded by a UK awarding body, the Institute of Training and Occupational Learning – that’s still pretty rare in the coaching world.

Finally, our course is all about how you take what you learn and apply it in the real world. We teach some highly specialised coaching knowledge but we always boil it down to “what do you do with it?” as ultimately this is what’s important.