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Birkman Master Coach Training Overview

The skilled coach knows that there is an art and a science to this discipline.  The art comes from years of experience in working with people and knowing how to help clients move towards greater success in their personal and professional lives.  For the science, coaches have relied on numerous assessments to provide them with data on the unique characteristics of their clients.  SSI's Master Coach training program integrates the best that science can offer with the coach's instincts and people skill to ensure the highest quality experience for the client.

The foundation of the SSI Master Coach program is the premier assessment tool available today, The Birkman Method®. The instrument is based on more than 50 years of reasearch that has resulted in a tool for the Coach that ensures success with each client. Onc straightforward but detailed questionnaire is used to provide all the information. The questionnaire itself is completed on-line and takes approximately 30 minutes to finish.

"Over the last six years, using Birkman to profile many of my clients has been a sound basis for both individual executive coaching and top team development.  Even the most cynical of candidates has found the information invaluable and vital for improving their work preformance and results."  Pauline Crawford, Managing Director, Corporate Heart Ltd.

The Master Coach Objectives

As a Professional Master Coach, you will be able to:

  • Give complete feedback and interpretation to individuals of their leadership style in 90 minutes or less
  • Understand how to apply the data to personal development opportunities for your client
  • Create a process for Executive Coaching that is customized both in content and delivery style for any individual
  • Develop illustrations that describe behavior based soley on data
  • Interpret Birkman Data for Behaviors in four categories
    • Interests—Hidden motivators that energize
    • Usual Style—Behaviors of productive individuals
    • Needs—Hidden motivators that allow Usual Behavior
    • Stress—Behaviors that result when needs are not met
  • Identify data patterns and what they represent in terms of behavior
  • Learn how to integrate the concepts into your own coaching methods
  • Create a development plan for an individual through techniques used to evaluate their Birkman Method® assessment
  • Provide more value to your clients through more prescriptive consultation

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About SSI and Your Instructor

Connie Charles, CEO of Strategic Solutions International, Inc. is one of only a handful of Birkman specialists trusted by Birkman International in Houston to deliver for you (and for them) the quality of teaching you expect and need.  She will help you build your knowledge of The Birkman Method® and give you the skills needed to get immediate value-for-money from your investment in training.  You can use her expertise and experience to shorten your learning curve, and identify situations where your new Birkman skills will help you achieve immediate impact.  Connie well provide you with practical examples, case studies and pragmatic processes that use the Birkman data as the foundation for coaching your clients.

Developing greater self-understanding forms the basis for much of the Master Coach program.  The key to success is helping individuals use this increased understanding as the springboard for managing and adapting personal behavior.  Connie will work with you so that you are able to use Birkman data to help your clients manage relationships more successfully.  Whether as a leader, team member colleague, as a generalist or a specialist!  The Master Coach class gives you the opportunity to achieve in-depth understanding of your own coaching skills and suggestions about how you can enhance your professional and personal performance.

Connie Charles, founder/CEO of Strategic Solutions International, Inc., has specialized in helping organizations meet their objectives through improvement of the way they motivate, manage and educate their people.  She has overseen the growth of SSI both domestically and internationally, which currently has a client base that includes Fortune 1000 companies such as ITT, DuPont, Boeing, First Data Corporation, Visa, Aramark, HSBC, JP Morgan, Lockheed Martin, and Wells Fargo Bank.