Gold

'If you are in any doubt of which option to go for - I say GO FOR GOLD! In addition to the inspirational weekend with Curly herself building on the coaching skills you've learnt from her book, and her brilliant practical marketing advice. You also get the opportunity to be a featured coach on her website. This incredible marketing bonus aimed at interested people generated my first client within days! The 12 Mentoring sessions accelerated my progress in the early days of my practice, and in addition the ongoing lifelong support in the form of Teleclasses, Coaching Clinics, and a Members Forum adds up to one incredible value for money package. Go for it!' - Carole Dukes L.C.H. Dip

The Achievement Specialists Gold Protégé Option is the most popular fast track route to the LCH Diploma and includes everything contained in the Silver Option plus outstanding 1-2-1 mentoring.  ‘There are two types of companies, those that work hard to charge customers more, and those that work hard to charge customers less. Both approaches can work. We are firmly in the second camp.’ Jeff Bezos Amazon - We are also proud to be firmly in the second camp, by working hard to charge you less! The cost our your investment in your future career/business as a life coach is at the bottom of this page. 

Fast track six months of private personalised protégé mentoring programme which follows the workshop part of the diploma. You will work with your private Life Coach/Mentor on an individually tailored program designed by you and your mentor to maximize your talents and competencies. Your mentor will be fully qualified and running a successful coaching practice for a minimum of 3 years, he/she will have attended exclusive mentor training with Curly Martin.
Your 6 month protégé programme consists of twelve highly focused 45 minute sessions to inspire and maintain your motivation during your start-up phase. This protégé programme is intended to protect you from the normal distractions and energy dips which are created by outside influences and the demands of starting a new venture. It has been said 'Two heads are better than one' and we agree.
Your mentor/coach will use a couple of the sessions to observe/supervise you coaching one of your clients and afterwards to offer you valuable feedback on your strengths as a coach and ideas on areas where you could improve your skills to enhance the coaching experience for your clients.
A copy of 'The Business Coaching Handbook' to give you ideas for your business and your future business clients..
Copy of the CD/DVD set which includes 3 visual/audio CD’s (visual media on your computer) of highlights of the 9 sessions of Curly training on the weekend workshop with demonstrations of all models used and also includes Curly coaching a client.
All the recorded master classes volume 1 & 2 master classes on CD in mp3 format for you to listen to time again on a huge variety of coach improvement topics.
Upon graduation you will be eligible to attend the workshop again as a crew member to refresh your skills, your competencies and strengthen your passion for life coaching. We are consistently updating the workshop with the latest techniques and this will give you the opportunity to gain extra insights into the new developments.

All the above is included in this option

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All the below is also included in this option 

1. Pre-workshop Study
   Includes guided reading to prepare you for the models and strategies used during life coaching. Completing your goal plan on how to introduce life coaching into your life with maximum results and minimum disruption. Keeping your life in balance whilst growing your practice.

2. Your entry in the Coaches section of this website, plus membership of the Achievement Specialists' Achievers Club. The focal point of the Achievers Club is the Discussion Forum. This is where ideas are shared, corporate coaching contracts are posted, requests for life coaches are made, wide-ranging questions are asked and answered.
3. Accelerated Learning Workshop [View Course Content ]
   

   This intensive workshop includes Life Coaching demonstrations and rehearsals of Achievement Specialists' unique and copyright Life Coaching Models, exclusive training and coaching presentations from Curly Martin, author of the number one bestseller from 2003 every year up to and including 2010) The Life Coaching Handbook, and bespoke Life Coaching rehearsals with insighful demonstrations. The workshop is highly practical based and you will be practising coaching in a safe environment, before lunchtime on day one. All the activities on the workshop and in the distant learning modules, are supervised and seamlessly incorporate the most effective NLP methodologies and techniques described in The Life Coaching Handbook, You will learn how to market and build a business within the following sectors, life coaching, small & medium business coaching, executive coaching, corporate coaching, coaching the public sector, ect. We show you how to harness your experience, skills, competencies and knowledge to fast track your coaching business.Please take time to view the course content as this will give you the details of the extensive topics covered on the 2 Day workshop.  Course numbers are restricted to ensure you have the perfect environment to learn and practice your new life coaching skills and competencies.
   

   ‘After completing a 12 day course somewhere else, I started to appreciate Curly's workshop weekend even more. In just two days with Curly - you get it all: Transfer of knowledge, practical exercises, set of tools that you can use while coaching and your own personal heaven - coaching circle to support you for life, if needed! With Curly there is no small hidden print, she is outstanding trainer and her generosity to share her knowledge and experience is one time fix! You are able to walk and even sooner run on your own! Therefore, highly recommended!!!’ Top qualities: Expert, Good Value, High Integrity Natasa Mihajlovic 2011

4. Self study modules. Once you have attended the workshop you are given your Life Coaching manual/workbook. The manual contains 9 fully accredited, comprehensive self study modules, [View Course Content ]  The manual is enhanced with conference coaching clinics, master classes (live delegate participation and recorded - 24 hour access), E-group and E-mail assistance. The complete manual, thesis, practical coaching sessions and final assessment paper are all fully supported by E-mentors.

5. Ultimate training workshop. The final event of your LCH diploma programme (optional extra training day). You can choose to attend this workshop, only after all your work has been submitted and marked. The workshop includes supervised practical coaching sessions, full diploma course overview, final assessment paper, master class business projection planning and graduation.
6. Total study time 300-350 hours including pre-course study, workshop attendance, coaching module completion, marketing material creation and strategy, start-up of practice, coaching log and final assessment.
7. Life Coaching practice sessions, together with your own Life Coach, are arranged for post workshop skills enhancement and coaching confidence. This will help to build towards your required 50 hours of coaching and also your confidence as a life coach. You are encouraged to start practicing as soon as you leave the workshop (whilst still in training) as you are required to have completed 50 coaching hours to qualify. These coaching hours can be paid or charity. If you decide to have paying clients you must cover your coaching with a full money back guarantee and make your clients aware you are still in training. We have many highly skilled, experienced professionals who attend our courses and who already have peer networks whom respect their expertise and who want to be coached by them. Therefore it would be unrealistic and detrimental to the coach not to charge for their services. The significant thing is; YOU get to choose when YOU feel ready to start your practice and when YOU are ready to start charging for your services. Integrity is the key factor.
8. Your individual marketing strategy. This will focus your marketing efforts and target specific prospects for your life coaching practice. Accelerating your marketing responses. You will be shown marketing strategies, including social network marketing, with the added extra, how to use QR codes in your marketing to increase your website traffic and profile. 
9. Unlimited recorded telephone master classes. Over 50 hours of recorded master classes are available for you to listen to 24/7 with topics ranging from :-  recordings of Curly Martin coaching one of her own personal clients (not a life coach); Presenting to businesses 1 & 2, Insight Profiling for Coaching 1 & 2, 8 coaching models and how to use them, 30 ways to produce press releases that work, spiral coaching model and many more useful topics. (cost of telephone call not included)      
10. Unlimited live telephone master classes. You can participate in all the live master classes if you wish. The topics are notified in advance in your achievers area. (cost of telephone call not included. 
11. Unlimited Email Support & E-Group Support.
12. Full L.C.H. Diploma qualification.
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13. You will learn how to promote and grow your Life Coaching practice through an exceptional networking, referrals and presentations system.  You will have decided on your pricing policy and have used these prices to experience converting a coaching enquiry into a paying client – this is a very important skill.
14. The main business options, self employed, limited liability company (Ltd.), limited liability partnership (LLP) or ordinary partnerships, will be explored and the advantages and disadvantages will be made clear. Business insurance, data protection, contractual agreements, etc. will be explained. You will know where to go and what to do, for setting up your coaching practice.
15. A Life Coaching Starter Kit - (includes enrolment/registration forms, client contracts, coaching model forms, selling strategy forms, client preparation forms, client agreement letters, etc..). All the paperwork needed to instantly set up a Life Coaching practice.
16. A signed copy of The Life Coaching Handbook.
17. Discounted professional indemnity and public liability insurance.
18. Your entry in the Coaches section of this website.
19. Client lead generation opportunity becomes activated from the moment you put your entry onto the Coaches section of this website. These leads are prospective paying clients looking for a coach. See the testimonial on the achievers club page. We consistently advertise our website and traffic comes to the website because of the outstanding reputation of Curly Martin this means you can benefit from two very powerful lead generating systems.

20. Training delivered by the expert pioneer of Life Coaching, Curly Martin. Curly delivers the workshop and is supported by a fully qualified team of coaches and experts, who will supervise your practical coaching from the beginning to ensure your coaching techniques and methods are world class from the very start. Curly will answer your questions personally and ensure you have competence and confidence when you leave the workshop part of the course. Remember that Curly Martin’s book ‘The Life Coaching Handbook’ was the first book published worldwide on the subject. Give yourself the best chance of success as a life coach and train with the world leading expert.

21. Access to our Mentor Helpline which is manned by fully qualified, experienced and working life coaches.
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22. Continuous Professional Development (CPD) Manual Section (Provides a continuous record of your development). A safeguard mechanism for future changes in the profession, this maintained document will provide you with evidence to apply for a licence should this ever be required by the government.
23. Discounted life time membership to the Find a Coach Directory.

24. Eligibility for membership to the International Coaching Institute. Achievement Specialists has negotiated a rate for our coaches to this professional accreditation body. We have negotiated the right to use the International Coaching Institute's logo on your marketing once you become a member. This is a hugely valuable benefit and a very low cost. Imagine your business cards with your logo and the logo of this prestigious coaching organisation and the impact this will have on your prospective clients.

The Gold Option investment:

Easy Payment Plan

An easy-to-pay instalment scheme is available. We have been approved for the Goverment career development loans scheme.

On our workshops we aim to have 1 mentor for every 4 delegates (1:4 ratio) which means help is always close at hand and all your activities are supervised from the start preventing bad practice. Your practical activities and exercises are held in mentor hosted conference rooms  to reduce noise pollution (distraction) which occurs when too many delegates work in one area.

Places are available on a 'first come' 'first served' basis so early booking is recommended, become a coach take action now.

‘Professional and Career Development Loans are commercial bank loans that canbe used to help pay for work related learning. You can borrow between £300 and £10,000 to help support the cost of up to two years of learning (or three years if it includes one year’s relevant unpaid practical work). The Government will pay the interest on the loan while you are learning and for one month afterwards. You will then need to start repaying the loan as you would any other commercial loans product. The loan can be used to pay course fees or other costs such as travel and living expenses. You can also use the loan to supplement other forms of support such as grants or bursaries. As the Professional and Career Development Loan is a commercial loan product, you should make sure you have investigated all the funding options that may be  open to you to ensure you take an informed decision about whether the Loan is right for you. For further  information on financial assistance to support your learning, visit www.direct.gov.uk/adultlearning or contact Next Step on 0800 100 900. Our learning provider registration number is: 11593’