The Life Coaching Institute is offering an exciting opportunity for individuals and corporations to link their business into our massive resource base through an innovative CoachIQ program. The CoachIQ program allows you to access nationally accredited coach training and ongoing professional development for you and your team, as well as a continuous stream of coaching products for your business to commercialise.

As I’m sure you’re aware, more and more businesses and individuals are turning to Coaching orientated solutions to enhance their performance. This has resulted in many individuals and corporations seeking to integrate coaching into the services they offer.

One of the most significant challenges facing coaches today is staying ahead of the pack - Innovation. To stay ahead you have to continually innovate - and that takes time, resource and significant ongoing investment.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could outsource product development to a team of industry leading professionals for only a small fraction of what it actually costs to develop?

Well that’s exactly what you can do through the Life Coaching Institute’s CoachIQ Program. LCI provides CoachIQ members a mechanism to link into our extensive Intellectual Property and resource pool. Specifically, this provides you and your team with accredited coach training, networking and support for all your coaching requirements, including: -

• Coach Education. You and your team can gain recognisable coaching qualifications through the Institutes nationally accredited Certificate IV in Life Coaching. With 9 core units, 430 training hours, practical workshops and comprehensive support systems, LCI’s Certificate IV in Life Coaching is one of the most thorough programs in the country – And one of only 2 nationally accredited coach courses. And through the Institute's Recognition of Prior Learning Process, you may be able to fast track the qualification by gaining credit for past studies and practical experience.
  
• Professional Endorsement. As a CoachIQ Member, your company will gain Organisational Membership with the Australian Life Coaching Association, which will identify your company as an organisation committed to providing the very best in Coaching support to your clients.
  
• Specialty Training. Your team will have access to the Institute’s advanced specialty training programs including Business Coaching, Executive Coaching, Life Cycle Coaching and Health & Fitness Coaching. This could allow you to add more value to your existing clients and enhance the opportunities of attracting new business by expanding your services.
  
• Ongoing Professional Development (OPD). Your team will be able to participate in OPD programs to enhance and expand their skills in acquiring new clients, maximising the value of existing clients and adding value to improve client retention.
  
• Ongoing Product Development. You will have access to the Institutes Product Development Team that continually develops new coaching products for your business to commercialise and profit from. You are guaranteed to receive a minimum of 6 new coaching programs every year for you to utilise in your business. Product development is driven by member priorities, so not only are you guaranteed new products, you are assured that they are relevant to your needs. Coaching products include seminars, workshops, courses, assessments and coaching tools. Each product is available for continuous use during your CoachIQ membership.

Here’s an example of product development in action: -

Value Demonstration 1: A member requests a generic coaching product to market to businesses as a client generation tool. The product “Attaining a work – life balance” was developed as a 3-hour interactive workshop. It was marketed bi-monthly, had an average of 25 people per workshop (at $45 per person), and generated on average 3 business clients per workshop (average value $4,800). The annualised commercial value of the product: $93,150.

• Prioritised Client Referrals. By linking into the CoachIQ Program you’ll be referred clients by the Institute. The Institutes powerful national brand and marketing generates business from large national and multi-national corporations that individual coaches would not otherwise be able to access or service. These referrals will compound on your own marketing efforts to assist you grow your coaching business faster.
  
• Coach the Coach Mentoring Program. You will have the opportunity to access your own Business Coach that will mentor you through the process of growing your coaching practice and beyond. Your Business Coach will assist you develop your business, focus on achieving your objectives, and overcome any obstacles you may come across. Your mentoring program includes one-on-one, group, phone, networking and email sessions.
  
• Professional Peer Support. Coaches within your organisation will have ready assess via phone and e-mail to LCI’s group of in-house coaching professionals. A group of highly trained and specialised business, executive, life cycle and health and fitness coaches who are on call Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm to review questions, offer guidance and help streamline case management skills, helping your coaches achieve the best outcomes for their clients.
  
• Network with other professional coaches in a structured way through CoachIQ Networking, a monthly forum where coaches get together either in person, on-line or via tele-conference to share ideas, discuss strategies and learn from each other.
  

Life Coaching Institute (LCI) is one of Australia’s most established and recognisable coaching brands. As a Registered Training Organisation we offer one of only two nationally accredited training programs in Life Coaching, proudly supported by our State and strategically located delivery and support centres.

LCI is committed to market innovation and leadership. It achieves this in several ways, including its focus on the development of Intellectual Property. LCI Educators and Product Developers have the highest academic and experiential standards of any coach organisation in Australia.

As a CoachIQ Member you will have access to our team of industry professionals for only a small monthly membership investment. Our dedication and diligence in product development is your assurance of market innovation.

Membership to CoachIQ requires you to be enrolled or to have completed the Institute's Certificate IV in Life Coaching. Applicants that have not enrolled, or completed, the Certificate IV in Life Coaching can enrol in the program and 2 specialty streams of choice at a reduced upfront investment of $2950.

The CoachIQ membership plans are detailed in the following table:

If you have already enrolled or completed the Institute’s Certificate IV in Life Coaching you can immediately access the CoachIQ Program for $249 a month.

This investment allows you to…

• Partner with one of Australia’s largest and most progressive coaching organisations;
  
• Provide you and your team with accredited coaching qualifications;
  
• Endorse your companies coaching skills through industry association membership and transparency of skills;
  
• Position your company as a learning organisation;
  
• Provide your company with client referrals;
  
• Provide you with a guaranteed, ongoing product stream to sell over and over again for the lifetime of your membership;
  
• Link you into a continuing innovation and business improvement system;
  
• Put you in touch with other coaches nationally for professional networking;
  
• Provide you with a source for continuing professional development and improvement.
  

Where to from here…

If you're an enthusiastic, motivated, experienced individual that is interested in CoachIQ please complete the obligation free, online expression of interest.

As there are a limited number of CoachIQ memberships available in each major geographic location, please act now to take advantage of this cost effective way of expanding your business and helping to ensure your success as a professional Coaching Organisation.