'The State of the Coaching Profession':
Coaching today is a demanding discipline.
The professional coaching discipline has evolved dramatically over the last few years and bears little resemblance to its fuzzy predecessor. Today's organizational leadership group needs to be assured they are employing best-practice standards and effective, validated tools and resources.

Coaching, by nature, is in a continual process of development and draws from a wide range of behavioral sciences and professional disciplines. Professional coaching has little resemblance to the fuzzy 'model' promoted by the large online course marketers, many regional providers and commercially oriented "international coaching" associations.

Achieving measurable, sustainable outcomes isn't a matter of simplistic goal setting, personality profiling and cheerleading but requires the skilful use of validated, proven behavioral change methods and learning tools grounded in the behavioral sciences. The success of any coaching program is dictated by the program's resources depth, scientific validity and measurability.

Recent studies have revealed the greatest challenge to any organization is to change people's behavior. Of recent years there has been a growing demand from coaches and their clients for an industry-proven coaching model based on scientifically validated methodologies. It is in response to this demand that the evidence-based Certified Master Coach Course was developed.

-For over a decade, the Institute has worked with many of the world’s leading organizations engaged in coaching to realize outstanding business outcomes through successful validated, initiatives. Our real solutions have produced real results. Our text books (published and distributed in multiple languages by McGraw-Hill International -Education), contain input from our clients worldwide, and document many outstanding success stories.

By working with hundreds of American, UK , European, Australian and Asian organizations, our team of expert facilitators understand the unique regional organizational coaching challenges and support requirements faced by our corporate, government and private clients. Equally, as the world's leading researcher and developer of coaching technology and after training and certifying thousands of coaches around the world, we intimately understand the personal and technical needs and ongoing support necessary for organizations and coaches to achieve continued coaching success.

    The Institute's Organizational Support Program:

Keeping the momentum and keeping pace with current world-best standard practice
Our long-term experience clearly shows that you will significantly enhance your program's success factor and simultaneously lower your overall coaching costs with the right 'technical and intellectual support'. Because we only work with a small number of select clients we are able to customize their Support Program to meet their changing requirements and provide 'need-to', personalized support at the highest level. This helps you to meet your ongoing coaching needs, manage a coaching program at 'world-best industry standard', stay within budget and produce the bottom-line results you expect.

Option 1.
Customized Courses
       "The mission of our Institute is to develop and deliver customized, experiential learning
       experiences that create a competitive leadership advantage for our clients." -Dr Skiffington

Introduction
The Institute works with select organizations on a one-to-one basis to develop coaching learning experiences tailored to their specific in-house practice needs. Whether you have an established coaching program or are establishing one, the custom program solution can help provide your key personnel with the latest valid, industry-proven coaching knowledge and practices and support.

            "Working with your expert team, we've been able to develop a powerful program for addressing strategic
              executive development issues. A key element of our success with this custom program is that our
              people were directly shown one-to-one by your facilitator how to apply the best practices to our situation
              and address the issues at hand. Our coaching program sponsors, drivers and coaches were also
              provided an invaluable, individualized blueprint for moving to the next level and beyond."  
                   -John Beresford [Senior Vice President], BP Services


Example: 3 Day -Customized (delivered onsite) Master Coach Certification Course:
This unique very small group course (delivered by us on-site, in your offices) features tailor-made, hands-on, personal skill and program task learning modules, allowing you to roll up your sleeves and get right to work. With the Institute's expert Faculty Team's training, guidance and support in just a matter of days you’ll be learning powerful skill applications and embracing proven program management practice standards. (see: Master Coach Certification - 'Course Content' and Group Rates ) 

Option 2. 
Organizational Associates:
Organizations who wish to partner with us to obtain a world-best standard, customized certified coaching program (for example; Specialist Management Coaching Practice Management Courses (for HR, L & D etc..), Internal Coach Certification Courses, Management and Leadership Coaching Courses, Management and Leadership Mentoring Courses etc..). These learning programs typically focus on specialist areas of knowledge and can be a one-off event or conducted 3 or 4 times over a year, for different participants. For organizations who require courses as an ongoing event we are frequently able sell the customized courses (excluding the Master Coach Course) proprietary rights of use to the client. In this situation the first few courses are delivered by us with the assistance of 2 or 3 of the client's facilitators (who are already Certified Master Coaches). Typically after 3 events the facilitators receive their appropriate facilitators certification to deliver the course themselves and the client acquires the course license of use.

-See: Latest examples of the types of customized Small Group, In-House Courses -delivered by Dr Skiffington
 to our Corporate, Business and Non-Profit Clients around the world.

Option 3.
Licensed User of Dr Skiffington's level one coaching courses:
Coaches / businesses / organizations can license our Introductory-level Coaching Programs (for example; the 'Manager / Leader as Coach' and 'Mentor Certification' -Course Training Manuals etc) within a defined territory or nominated organization. -Read more...

      Summary of Types

          - Consulting/Advisory Services:  Services   

      
       If you are interested in applying for project support, please go through the four step process below to ensure that you receive
      a prompt answer to your request...

      1: Eligibility: BCI project resources are restricted to registered Support Members who are graduates of our Graduate School
               of Master Coaches or are looking to undertake 'Master Coach' certification as part of their initial support program.

      2: Submit Online 'CMC Course Registration of Interest Form'  -or - Assignment Consulting/Advisory Request Form

      3: Schedule Appointment: Once your registration of interest form has been submitted, you can expect a response within
               24 hours.

      4: Interview: We will call you, at an appointed time, to: a) ascertain what training and/or support program can best work for you,
              b) answer any questions you have and, d) any approval is subject to a mutually satisfactory outcome of the interview..

      5: Application Approval:  Note that a successful applicant is notified within 24 hours of application.

."Guy Innes, national sales coach for real estate group L J Hooker, went through Dr Skiffington's program. "The benefit for us
    was that it enabled us to critically review our own coaching processes and then take our sales and leadership programs that
    we offer to our sales agents -to the next advanced level." Innes says." -The Financial Review. Nov.2005

Some recent Support Members: