Fundamentals of Coaching

How do you bring out the best in others?

This is the fundamental question of coaching. Great coaches are masters at bringing out the best in others. It’s what coaching is all about.

Different sorts of coaches have various other skills as well. When someone coaches a particular subject area, like a ballet coach, it’s important to know that subject area deeply. In the Hornick School of Coaching, we train coaches for certification by the International Coaching Federation. The certification training involves learning a variety of “methods” for helping life coaches bring out the best in others.

But, before any of that “specialized” training, there are the fundamentals. What are the fundamentals of bringing out the best in others?

That’s what we cover in this seminar.

They include seeing the possibility in others, seeing them as capable, seeing them as deserving, creating a relaxing and psychologically safe space, helping them see the primacy of making choices, taking responsibility, and moving into action, understanding how desire is variable and can be scaffolded, knowing the fundamental importance and absolute power of imagination and creativity, and recognizing that people really do change their whole lives long. You can read a more detailed discussion of these elements on the Hornick School of Coaching website.

The program used to be called Fundamentals of Coaching, but after running it several time, it became clear that becoming better at bringing out the best in others was of fundamental importance to all people. So, we changed the name to simply The Fundamentals Seminar. Adding the word Seminar also helped people understand that this program is not a passive experience. You can’t have this kind of experience from reading a book or watching a video.

A curious and beautiful thing about what it takes to bring out the best in others is that you already know how to do it. We all do. It’s a wisdom that we all have inside us. This seminar is not so much about “teaching” you to get better at bringing out the best in others. It’s about having conversations in which you clarify (and sometimes discover) what you already know. This is a profoundly gratifying experience. The process is part of why people enjoy the seminar so much.

That kind of clarification doesn’t “teach” you much at all. What it does is allow you to “transform.” When the seminar is over, you perceive things differently. You notice different things. Your enhanced perception translates into your bringing out the best in others more powerfully than you had before. It doesn’t matter how good you are at bringing out the best in others before the seminar, after you experience The Fundamentals Seminar, you will be better.

Sliding Scale Fees:

The Hornick School for Coaching was set up to bring the best coach training in the world to everyone. One way we live that principle is by providing discounts for anyone who can’t afford the investment.

Standard fee $299.

At checkout, you may elect to pay instead

1/2 standard fee: $149 or

1/4 standard fee: $74.

If you want to attend and cannot afford the one quarter price, email [email protected] and we’ll see what we can do for you.