The Coach Approach

Coaching is an ongoing, relational partnership built around a client-driven conversational process that empowers people to achieve growth and change in areas important to them.

Instead of giving advice, a coach applies a set of relational influence skills to draw solutions out of the coachee themselves and their own relationship with God. This client and context-oriented approach makes coaching a great tool for staff and leadership development and relevant in cross-cultural contexts.

By its very nature, the coaching approach assumes a level of initiative and responsibility that invites emerging leaders to step up and take greater ownership for the fruitfulness and success of their team and ministry.

What leadership skills are learned through a coach training program like this?

​Our training provides foundational and advanced coaching competencies which you can use to:

• Develop a coaching value-set that fits your belief system and cross-cultural context

• Create authentic relational environments that catalyze transformation

• Assist leaders and staff in clarifying their goals and forming effective action plans

• Broaden someone’s perspective through intuitive listening and asking of powerful questions

• Gain commitment, maintain motivation, and build support structures for lasting change

• Learn how to provide feedback, affirmation, accountability, perspective shifts, and support in ways that helps others succeed

​Applicants for this training should:

• Have a passion for staff and leadership development and empowering others.

• Possess the flexibility to learn a coaching methodology that listens and asks rather than instructs and advises.

• Be able to recruit their own coaching clients through their sphere of influence.

• Be willing to make a 12 month commitment to training and related coaching sessions. [Note: Any existing organizational affiliation continues.]