International Coach Federation (ICF), the largest global organization of professional coaches with over 20,000 members in 100+ countries, awards ICF credential to coaches who have successfully undergone an Accelerated Coach Training Program. The ICF Credential demonstrates that one’s coaching practice is based on Global Standards and will therefore give him the distinction and the edge over other professional coaches. Moreover, an ICF Credential is similar to a degree or professional designation with global recognition. So with it, you can practice Professional Coaching anywhere else in the world.

In the Philippines, Benchmark Consulting, the country’s premiere coaching, training, and leadership development company, offers Accelerated Coach Training Program (ACTP), one of the few courses in the world approved by the ICF.

To become a credentialed coach, the program gives coaches  60 coach training hours for their Associate Certified Coach (ACC) Application. It is the ONLY training package that comes FREE with the following requirements for ICF credential: (1) 10 hours Mentor Coaching over 3 months, (2) mentoring  to surely pass the Written Exam; and (3) assistance in logging coaching hours. Moreover, participants are assured they are learning the ICF Core Coaching Competencies correctly because the mentor coach has an ICF – Master Certified Coach (MCC) credential.

“ACTP has opened my eyes to the real world of Coaching. I had so many misconceptions about coaching before I took the course – that coaching is guiding and mentoring the coachee on what to do, based on the Coach’s expertise of subject at hand and suggesting solutions to issues/problems. I had to unlearn all these after ACTP taught me that Coaching is not content-directive, and it requires an entirely different set of skills and process. Julius is a very effective coach, trainer, and mentor as he practices what he preaches. He is sincere and patient in his approach.” – Alma Horn, Independent HR Consultant; Former Country HR Director at Citibank NA, Philippines.

THE CURRICULUM

ACTP is a 4-month course with three phases:

Phase I: 4-Day Coaching Intensives. This workshop immerses participants in the science and art of coaching with focus on the ICF Core Coaching Competencies.

Phase II: Supervised 3-Month Practicum. Phase II gives  the opportunity to practice coaching with chosen client while being supervised, coached, and mentored by a Master Certified Coach (MCC).

Phase III: 2-Day Coaching Clinic & Close-Out. This workshop reinforces  coaching capabilities and will serve as the final assessment of one’s coaching proficiency.

In this learning journey, participants will experience and internalize the following:

• The True Power of Coaching: Why Coaching Works
• The Context of Coaching: The Many Applications of Coaching
• Coaching as a Profession: The Joys & Rewards of Being a Professional Coach
• Coaching Specializations: What’s your Niche?
• Understanding the Science Behind Coaching
• The Cornerstones of Coaching
• Heavy Influences of Coaching
• Practical 3-Step Coaching Dialogue: A Transformation Process
• ICF Core Coaching Competencies
• Situational Coaching: Coaching Styles
• Coaching and Culture
• Jumpstarting Your Coaching Practice
• The Coaching Ethical Standards based on ICF Code of Ethics
• The ICF Credentialing Process

This coming June 29-30, Benchmark will run the 3rd phase of ACTP for the 1st batch of coaches enrolled this year. The next schedule of Benchmark’s ACTP (Phase 1) will be on August 15-18.

For more program details, contact:
MR. ADAM BAUTISTA
tel: +63-2-8127177
mobile: +63-920-9125329
email: adam@benchmark-consulting.net

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Leadership and learning are inseparable. The best leaders are constant learners. When you become a manager, it doesn’t mean that you already know everything on how to manage your team or how to bring success to the company. Attending a coaching course will definitely help you improve your leadership skills.

This coming June 22-23, Benchmark Consulting, the country’s premiere coaching, training, and leadership development company, will have its second batch of “Coaching for Success” workshop. This 2-day session is an ICF-certified Continuing Coaching Education (CCE) course that teaches leaders how to coach based on global standards.

“I believe all leaders should attend Coaching for Success. With the war on talents that has been going on right now, coaching is a key driver in unleashing the potentials of people who matter most to the organization.” – Buena V. Chanco, Executive VP, HR Management
Marketing & Customer Relations Cluster Head

Learn from the Masters

Coaching for Success©, is the only coaching course for leaders approved by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) in the Philippines. As such, it meets the highest global quality standards and is conducted by no less than ICF-credentialed coaches led by Julius Ordoñez who is a certified Master Coach.

Here are some important facts about the course:

Key Take-Away

• 3-STEP PROCESS AND STATE-OF-THE-ART SKILL-SETS THAT SET YOU APART from others to uplift your people’s performance
• PRACTICAL TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES TO HELP YOU UNLOCK YOUR PEOPLE’S ABILITY to further develop themselves, achieve maximum performance, and contribute more to your organization
• COACHING SKILLS THAT DRIVE MEDIOCRE AND POOR PERFORMERS to happily take charge of their own progress and step up to higher ground
• KEY APPROACHES TO GROW PEAK PERFORMERS to greater heights of excellence

Course Content

• NEW Leadership Challenges in this VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) World
• Why Coaching is the Leadership Style of the Future
• What is Coaching Based on Global Standards: A LIVE Coaching Demo by an ICF-Credentialed Coach
• How Coaching Impacts Behavioral Change: The Science Behind Coaching
• Sustainable Benefits of Coaching for the Coachee, Leader, Organization, Customer, and the Business
• Similarities and Differences between Coaching and Mentoring
• When to Coach, When to Mentor, and When to do Both
• Easy 3-Step Process in a Coaching Dialogue that Elicits New Behaviors
• How to Handle Coachee-Initiated and Coach-Initiated Coaching Conversations
• The ICF-Way: Skills, Techniques, Tools for Meaningful Coaching Conversations
• Growth-Oriented and Change-Oriented Types of Coaching in the Workplace
• Turning Positive & Constructive Feedback into a Productive Coaching Dialogue
• Coaching Approaches for Different Types of Performers and Personalities
• Reinforcement Activities that Sustain the Gains of Coaching
• Implementing Coaching Based On World’s Best Practices

Details and Reservations

Date: June 22-23, 2017
Venue: Marriott Hotel Manila
For more details and seat reservations, contact: MS. TRIXY GABRIEL at +632-8127177 or +632-8123277 or email her at trixy@benchmark-consulting.net.

Visit the Benchmark Consulting website at www.benchmark-consulting.net or email them at info@benchmark-consulting.net.

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Executive Coaching is a persuasive win-win model approach, with a main thrust of improving the client’s behaviors, skills, attitudes and practices so that there is an increase of high probability in attaining the personal and organizational goal.

Aggressive and productive companies employ this model because of the following advantages:

1. It produces more positive attitudes to the clients.
Executive coaching generates attitudes that lead to positive action. Emphasis on respect, sensitivity toward others and teamwork as well is essential to the development of positive attitudes; thus, creating a never-ending opportunity to perform better and so succeed then.

2. It builds high morale.
With the knowledge of his or her client’s personal dreams, interest and expectations in the work, the coach can help him or her achieve them. The encouragement and recognition and other forms of appreciation from coaching can change the behaviors of the client.

3. It leads to higher productivity.
Executive coach tells his/her client the value of performing the best or be excellent in his/her work. He tells him or her to maintain a high morale and commitment to get the work done which will result to higher productivity.

4. It commands mutual respect.
Coaching inspires and challenges the client to perceive the strong relationship between effort and performance, performance and rewards and satisfaction of personal goals. Since both individuals desire for improvement and contentment, the full trust and confidence of the client to his or her coach will lead to mutual genuine respect.

5. It enhances openness and honest communication.
The process of coaching helps build trust, confidence, and loyalty between the executive coach and his or her client as a result of their openness and honest line of communication. It is the careful listening and accurate feedback of the coach that their interactions become more meaningful and acceptable. “The more an idea is put to use, the better it is understood and remembered.”

6. It enriches experienced responsibility.
The client has the opportunity to feel and undergo personal reflection on his or her responsibility for the work’s quantity and quality. A sense of responsibility will give him or her meaningfulness, accomplishment, new learning, and a strong need to grow let in an enriched job.

7. It reduces turnover, stress and burnout, fear of failure, and job dissatisfaction.
One of the advantages of executive coaching is to help the client discern and understand the possible consequences of healthy organization. The coach enhances his or her client’s growth, sustains high levels of productivity and provides a sense of meaning and purpose in their relationships.

Executive coaching focuses for the improvement of the behaviors, skills and abilities of the client, not for perfection; for excellent performance, not predominance; for consistency and not impressionism. A coach facilitates his or her client for a greater performance in satisfying his or her personal needs and organizational growth; thus, attaining a higher productivity.

To attend Coaching Programs, contact Benchmark Consulting, the country’s premiere coaching, training, and leadership development company, you may call (02) 812 7177 or email info@benchmark-consulting.net. You may also visit their website at www.benchmark-consulting.net.

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“The most rewarding part is when you see the person progressing on his stated goals and when you see him becoming a better leader and a better person.” – Julius Ordoñez, Master Certified Coach

What comes on top of your mind whenever you’re asked about happiness and fulfilment? Aside from being together with our family and loved ones, our answers will surely include a successful career and achieving our goals. But we seldom find someone who would give a selfless answer. And this made me more curious about The Master Coach, Julius Ordoñez.

Early Leadership Journey

Julius learned to be independent at a very young age. He lost his father when he was just two months old. Despite being the youngest of the seven siblings, he wasn’t the usual ‘spoiled’ kid. He was driven, passionate, ambitious and a take-charge person. And this can be credited to his mom who motivated and instilled in him the significance of learning.

“My mom was a teacher who instilled in us that education is our weapon in battling the challenges of life, and therefore we must value it, and that we must finish our chosen degrees. And we must not stop learning as long as we live. This is the biggest influence in my life and in my chosen career. I value hard work in everything I do, and to give my heart and soul to every goal or task that I do,” Julius shares with The Village Connect.

The Road Towards Coaching

After college graduation, Julius worked in the academe for three years before venturing into the corporate world as an HR practitioner. His stint in a Management Consulting company eventually led to his coaching career.  He realized the real essence of leadership lies in one’s ability to ignite positive change and transformation in people, helping them become successful.

“This inspired me to pursue executive coaching and eventually set up my own coaching, training, and consulting company,” he shares.

He then took up a Management Consulting Course at New York University and completed a 3-Year Corporate Coaching Certification Course at Corporate Coach University.

At a young age, Julius decided to set up his own company. Just like other start-ups, Julius wasn’t an exception. He experienced the challenges of being self-employed, which means no fixed salary and the need to work harder to get clients to ensure cash flow.

“As [a] new player in the industry, I had to start building my client base from scratch; I had to build my name and reputation. [Moreover,] being perceived a “junior,” I had to prove that I have content and expertise to introduce to or share with the client. “

But everything was worth it. In 2002, Benchmark Consulting Company was born. Since then, the premier training and coaching firm has worked with more than 500,000 senior executives, managers, supervisors, and teams from the US, Europe, and Asia.

The Master Coach

Aside from being the President and owner of Benchmark Consulting, Julius is one of the few executive coaches in the world and the first and only in the Philippines to attain the Master Certified Coach (MCC) credential, the highest level of certification granted by the International Coach Federation (ICF), the recognized authority of professional coaching worldwide.

In 2015, he was part of a global panel of experts chosen by the ICF in its efforts to study and define the competencies of a coach and their roles in building and maintaining a successful coaching practice. In the same year, he was also elected President of Asia Pacific Alliance of Coaches (APAC), the leading organization of professional coaches in the Asia Pacific Region. He is also the founder of the ICF-Philippines Chapter. His advocacy is to bring the gift of coaching to everyone.

Yes, Julius is a respected global leader in the field of professional coaching, but for me, what really makes him a “Master Coach” is his humility and passion for motivating people.

Q & A with the Master Coach

Nadj: What inspired you to become an executive coach?

Julius: As an educator and HR practitioner, my passion has always been into people development, personal growth and transformation. I feel a deeper sense of fulfillment whenever I see people improve themselves. As a leader myself, I know how crucial a leadership role is, not just in influencing people to get things done, but in growing them so they become more effective in what they do and they achieve their aspirations. I realized the real essence of leadership lies in your ability to catalyze positive change and transformation in people, helping them become successful. This inspired me to pursue executive coaching and eventually set up my own coaching, training, and consulting company. Since then, my company has been helping grow and develop executives and leaders through coaching and training.

Nadj: What’s the hardest part of being an executive coach?

Julius:  The hardest part varies from one coach to another depending on the level of proficiency and experience of the coach. To me, the hardest part of being an executive coach is self-management – managing your possible biases and judgements about the person and making sure they don’t get in the way when you coach them. This is an easy trap. When this happens, you unknowingly limit the possible approaches you can use to help the person and therefore limiting the possibilities available for him.

Nadj: What’s the best part of being an executive coach?

Julius: The best part is when you see the person experiencing an AHA / eureka moment and you see his eyes lit, and the face brightens. You can feel that the person is feeling excited and raring to take action immediately. The most rewarding is when you see the person progressing on his stated goals and when you see him becoming a better leader and a better person.

Julius: REWARDING

Nadj: What are your tips for people who wish to pursue a coaching career?

Julius: The opportunity to help someone achieve what he wants must be your primordial motivation in becoming a coach, not the financial reward. When you have the genuine intent to help, learning how to coach and building your coaching practice become easy.

[Veering away from coaching…]

Nadj: Who is Julius as a husband?

Julius: I am generally a supportive and loving husband to my wife. I listen to her and try my best to always see where is coming from. When it comes to decision making on small things, however, I have the tendency to call the shots without consulting her. This may be attributed to the fact that I am used to making quick decisions, and independent at that, in my life. But I am learning.

Nadj: What’s your parenting style?

Julius: I am a visible and a hands-on father to my kids. I make sure I spend time with them, play with them, and laugh with them.

Nadj: How do you balance work and family time?

Julius: With my roles and responsibilities, I admit I find it very challenging to give time to my kids and the quality time they rightfully deserve. I made a promise beginning of this year that I will constantly challenge myself to be fully “present” with my kids as I tend to be distracted by a lot of things which affect my quality time with them. So I am a work in progress. I am continuously learning on how to be the best dad I could be to my kids.

Nadj: If you weren’t an executive coach, what career path could you have chosen?

Julius: I love traveling to different countries and learning their different cultures. If I were not an executive coach, I could have probably embarked on a career along this line.

If you’re also interested to take on a coaching career, you can enroll in Benchmark Consulting’s coach-training programs that are certified by the International Coach Federation. You will not only be trained by The Master Coach Julius himself but you’ll also take the first step in becoming an international credentialed coach.

Call to Inquire or Reserve your slots NOW! Call (02) 812 7177 or email Benchmark Consulting at info@benchmark-consulting.net.

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