ICF Coach Certification Level 1 Programme
ICF ACC Pathway
Elevate your leadership today. Become a globally recognised ICF coach with Bailey Balfour.
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Why Start with Level 1 Coach Training?
In today’s dynamic environment, senior leaders are expected to transform not only the business but also its people. While they are responsible for the bottom line, the true driver of these results is the people within the organisation.
With increasing pressures, maintaining a relational approach can be challenging. However, with strong coaching skills, leaders build trust, communicate better, and foster a supportive, high-performing culture.
By taking our Level 1 coach training programme, you will learn how to become a great leader who:
- Develops others: You will have impactful conversations on performance, give good feedback, have career planning conversations and display emotional intelligence in day-to-day.
- Influence stakeholders relationally: You will skillfully influence both internal and external senior stakeholders, enhancing collaboration and decision-making through curtiosity, active listning and empathy.
- Drive impactful change: You will leverage a coaching approach to effectively partner with the business and drive change at senior levels.
Your One-Stop Shop for Comprehensive Leadership Coach Training
A 1-day programme isn’t enough to build lasting skills. We believe in a holistic approach to leadership development, under the guidance of experienced coaches. This ensures sustainable growth and behavior change over a span of 6 months.
Emotional Intelligence
Benefit: Develops essential leadership competencies such as emotional intelligence, conflict resolution, and team management.
Impact: Leaders are better equipped to inspire and guide their teams and themselves resulting in improved team performance.
Career Coaching
Benefit: Helps leaders create career plans and have conversations on career transitions, promotions, development.
Impact: Leaders become more proactive in their career development, leading to greater personal fulfillment and professional growth.
Coaching Frameworks
Benefit: Provides structured approaches and models for coaching, ensuring impactful outcomes in short bursts of times.
Impact: Leaders can implement proven coaching methodologies to support their team’s development, driving sustained improvements.
Neuroscience and Psychology
Benefit: Provides insights into brain functioning and human behavior, enabling leaders to understand and influence their teams more effectively.
Impact: Leaders can create more engaging and motivating work environments, leading to higher employee satisfaction and productivity.
Powerful Questioning and Facilitation
Benefit: Leaders will ask impactful questions and effectively manage interactions, ensuring productive and inclusive participation.
Impact: Leaders facilitate deeper understanding and collaboration, harnessing team intelligence for innovation, and better decision-making.
Executive Coaching
Benefit: Leaders are able to enhance strategic thinking and decision-making abilities, improving their leadership presence, and fosters resilience in high-pressure environments. They’ll also help their team harness this ability.
Impact: Leaders become more effective in navigating complex organizational challenges and driving business success.
We Train Senior Leaders, HR Professionals and Executives from Fortune 500 and Other Leading Companies.
Our students are VP leaders and above at Standard Chartered, Société Générale, Herbert Smith Freehills, Schroders, Manulife, Abbvie Pharmaceutical, Clifford Chance, Accenture, Microsoft, Meta, INSEAD, Linkedin and KPMG.
“Through this programme I have become far more than a coach. I am a better leader, listener and manager as a result.”
–Bailey Balfour Alumni
Level 1 ICF Coach Certification Programme Overview
If you want to become a more effective leader, starting off as a coach, or you work in HR, Bailey Balfour offers the highest standards of ICF coach training for leaders and aspiring coaches.
Our Level 1 programme provides you with all the training education you need to become an ACC Level Coach with the ICF.
- Who is Level 1 programme for?
- Training hours and graduation timeline?
- Mode of training?
- When and how to enrol?
This programme is designed for you if you want to become an effective leader, if you are starting your journey as a coach, or work in HR
77 ICF Training Hours. Min. 6 months to complete your ICF coach certification journey
Online. Flexible and engaging – online learning lets you take part no matter where you are, and participate in experiential discussions and practice.
Enrol for our April 2025 intake now! Early-bird of 10% discount closes on March 28, 2025
ICF Accredited Coach Training
With 30 hours of self-directed learning and 2 hours a week of live, experiential training (12 sessions overall) – we value your time and ensure that each hour is well invested.
Live sessions, run by our experienced coaching faculty, are where you come together with your cohort to gain depth of understanding on the key concepts, coaching skills and coaching theory.
ICF Mentor Coaching Groups
23 hours of individual and group mentor coaching – peer and observed virtual coaching in small groups.
This includes the 10 hours of Mentor Coaching required for the ICF credential.
The coaching sessions are observed by our experienced faculty, who will provide verbal and written feedback.
ICF Performance Evaluation
At the end of the Level 1 coach certification programme, you will need to submit 2 recordings which we listen to and evaluate whether or not you have passed the standard of coaching at an ACC level.
If you do not pass the first time, you can submit another recording for a fee.
Modules
Each module is a series of online workshops, and supported by pre-work in our easy-to-use learning management system. Attending the workshops alongside your cohort gives you an opportunity to deepen your understanding of the theory and models by putting them into practice in breakout rooms.
Each module builds upon the knowledge acquired in the prior modules, so that you gain confidence as a coach as you move through the programme.
Module 1 - Introduction to Coaching Conversations
4 live workshops (2 hours per run) | 4 hours self-directed learning – Total length – 12 hours
By the end of module one, you will learn and apply the core coaching skills and frameworks needed to start coaching.
Module 2 - Coaching Tools and Techniques
4 live workshops (2 hours per run) | 4 hours self-directed learning – Total length – 12 hours
Building upon the core skills, you both acquire the knowledge and learn the application of frameworks and tools which will support your work with your clients.
Module 3 - Career Coaching
2 live workshops (2 hours per run) | 2 hours self-directed learning – Total length – 6 hours
Everyone needs help in their career journey at some point in their working life – we equip you with the tools necessary to work with clients to identify the next steps to building a successful career.
Module 4 - Coaching at Work and in Organisations
2 live workshops (2 hours per run) | 2 hours self-directed learning – Total length – 6 hours
We develop your skills to coach as a leader, internal coach or external coach – from the practical aspects of a coaching assignment, to preparation for the topics clients might bring to coaching.
You will be a more confident coach after Level 1
- Be fluent and confident in using core coaching skills and follow a coaching model in a coaching conversation
- Be familiar with the ICF framework of core competencies and able to apply an ethical coaching practice
- Develop experience in setting a coaching agreement, providing feedback and, as part of the coaching process, holding clients accountable.
- Gain tools and techniques to help both coach and client to increase awareness and inspire change
- Be skilled and empowered to take on coaching assignments with real clients in organisations
- Cultivate trust and safety in coaching conversations through honing listening skills and observing body language
Preview our Free ICF Coach Certification Course
One of the most effective ways to decide whether our programme is the best for you is to experience a short taster - to see what you could expect and get a feel for the different elements of our courses including mentor coaching, our self-directed resources and our learning system. You can enjoy this 1 hour taster at your own pace at any time so register now.
Programme Fees
Become a confident coach in 6 months. Learn with continuous practice-refine cycle under expert supervision.
Experienced faculty >10+ years
Unlimited mentorship
Learn live and online
Build global connections
Designed by master certified coach
To secure a 10% discount, sign up 4 weeks before the cohort starts.
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Accelerate your coaching journey with the world’s leading coaching accreditation body.
We want you to focus your energy on coaching skills – not on processes – so we have made the steps to prepare for your ICF accreditation as simple as possible
Bailey Balfour is an ICF-accredited coach training academy that offers the highest standards of coach certification programme.
The International Coaching Federation (ICF) is the largest internationally-recognised accreditation body that sets the standard for both coaching educators (us) and coaches (you) through the ICF competencies, ICF definition of coaching, ICF code of ethics and a rigorous assessment process for both education providers and coaches.
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