Congratulations! You’ve had an amazing journey so far. You began with your basic “Core” training and it’s clear that this coaching thing is important for you. So important that you’ve continued on with your training, entering a rigorous and comprehensive coach certification program. You’ve attended the classes, studied the lessons, and no doubt given (and received) plenty of coaching.

why are prep calls important?

1) Let’s face it. You’re looking at this page most likely because you’re a little nervous about your exam coming up.   You’re still unsure of how to “get out of your head” and stop getting stuck with your client.  Of course you want to make sure you’re prepared. The more specific feedback you can get in how to strengthen and apply your coaching skills, the better you will feel. And because there’s that underlying pressure of “You got only one chance to do it right,” most likely your “saboteur” is having a field day with you.

2) As amazing as your basic and certification trainers and schools are, there’s just not enough time and structure built into the system for every coach to get the support they need.

III) Just about the best you can do is load yourself with practice sessions and an occasional triad coaching. Other than that, there's very little outside support in preparing for your exam. It's easy and very natural to feel overwhelmed and unprepared, or even worse, feel strangely over-prepared and confident, like you must be missing something.

Here’s how it works.  Most Certification exams come in two phases—a written exam, and an oral exam. 
The written exam tends to be relatively easy (time consuming, but easy) because it’s focused primarily on your “coaching knowledge” and is very brain oriented—thinking, reading, writing, talking, listening—you know, all the stuff you’ve been doing during your training. 

The good news is that when we’re uncomfortable, we naturally go to where we’re comfortable, and that usually is the brain.
The bad news is that when you’re uncomfortable in your coaching, you’ll usually go to where you’re comfortable… which means the brain.

The oral exam focuses on your “coaching application”, which tends to be more intuitive and body oriented, or “knowing”. 
How many times have you heard people say, “Get out of your head!” and you still do it?  Even more important, how do you do it?

These Certification Prep Calls takes the basic and advanced learning that you’re getting from classes, and helps you learn how to transition from head coaching to your body coaching, from intellectual to intuitive, from thinking to knowing.

If you’re ready to jump in and learn more about your coaching that you ever thought possible, click here.
Or to learn more about these amazing, confidence-building calls, keep reading.

why MY prep calls are really important... and valuable!

A) Over seven years of coach training, massive amounts of assisting, and having a full load of coaches as clients has kept me focused on the basics, learning and relearning deeper and deeper. I also lead the bi-weekly Coaching Skills Forum where we focus on a different Coaching skill for an entire hour. If I may toot my own horn a little, I know our coaching skills deeply and have helped many coaches expand their learning and more fully integrate their coaching skills—from the CTI Co-Active model, to the ICF Core Competencies. I have a great passion to help coaches discover how to step in to their best—either through full one-on-one coaching or through my amazing confidence building prep calls. If there’s something from your training that you don’t quite get, I’ll most likely be able to clarify so that you not only “get it” but you’re able to put it into action and experience it.

2) Before I discovered coaching I was an actor. Actors have to learn how to overcome performance anxiety and create powerful and engaging auditions almost every day. Through my experiences, I’ve developed some amazing techniques designed to shift focus and purpose that’ll COMPLETELY TARGET AND ELIMINATE ANY EXAM ANXIETY you may be experiencing (like freaking out about your upcoming exam).  Imagine being able to transcend beyond the urge to “do it right” or “don’t blow it” and be able to connect with your coaching wisdom easily and powerfully.

III) I failed my exam the first time. I mean, miserably. It couldn't go much worse. And yet, it was the single most powerful learning from my entire coach training. I now know what was missing. The learning I received not only turbo charged my own coaching, but provided me with valuable insight in how to not only pass the exam, but to carry it into everyday coaching. I discovered "The Secret," the "Super Skill" and how to build deep coaching confidence that will extend way beyond your exam and well into your coaching practice. Your coaching will never be the same.

In other words, my past experience is yours to take advantage of.

So how about it? Are you ready to turbo charge your coaching and tap into the poweful coach that lies within?

If you’re ready to sign up and take advantage of my experience to explode and empower your coaching, click here.
Or to learn more about these amazing and unique calls, continue below to read more.

what you get:

First off, I offer a complementary introductory conversation to clarify your thoughts and feelings about the exam. If you still need to take your written exam, there is some guidance also provided to help you keep focus. We also explore how to effectively use your transition time between the written and oral exams.

A total of SIX calls are included in the “Exam Prep to Confidence and Success” package. Each 75-minute call focuses on building your skills and coaching confidence and connection in a different way, each building upon the other.

• PRE-Package Call: We’ll connect and begin focusing on your current coaching status, addressing what concerns and questions you may have about your exam and get you started moving towards shifting from being “in your head” to your “whole body coaching”.  And that’s even before we actually begin working.  This is just the prep call.   This is also when we’ll schedule all your other calls so that you’ll complete this amazing work at peak timing before your exam. (so consider this your little extra bonus call, even before we really get started.)

• Call #1: provides a simple, yet powerful tool that you can use at any time to ground yourself and your coaching. It’s perhaps the single most important thing that you can learn in your coaching that will help you discover amazing power, energy and focus.

• Call #2: escalates your coaching proficiency in just 15 minutes. It’s a simple approach that instantly turbocharges seven of your coaching skills. It also provides amazing extra benefits and impact to your coaching practice. Your coaching will never be the same.

• Call #3: revisits your coaching skills with the Coaching Skills Game. You’ll comprehend your coaching skills like never before. It’s just like music where you have to learn all the basic notes and chords first before you can play jazz.  We’re talking about your “coaching jazz”, where you begin down the path towards your coaching mastery.

• Call #4: focuses on the actual exam experience and where you discover an added advantage and confidence for your exam. It’s guaranteed that you’ll be disconnected from your client at some point, and here is where you get three simple, proven techniques to instantly get re-connected.

• Call #5 is a continuation of the connection call with two more incredibly powerful (and easy to use) techniques that propel you into masterful coaching.  In this work we’ll discover the powerful and amazing Secret Super Skill that most coaches don’t consciously know about, but it’s what creates complete coaching connection.

• Call #6. Your final call is completely about YOU and your purpose. This is when we will target and ELMINATE any anxiety about your upcoming exam, creating for you a 100% exam success. This aspect alone is powerful and has helped many coaches keep their focus during their exam so they can do what they came to do and be who they came to be. Of course you’ll not only leave the call with this deeper knowledge, awareness and coaching skill, but with simple yet powerful structures to keep you in that focus from the moment our call ends until the moment your exam is completed.

Along the way. you’ll directly benefit from my personal exam failure and all the skills and exercises that have come as a result, including the tools designed to build deep comprehension and enable powerful application of your coaching skills. The package will help you:

• adjust your focus for your exam
• streamline your day-to-day coaching
• strengthen and enhance over 10 powerful coaching skills
• boost your coaching confidence, along with tips and techniques to keep you connected to your client and your skills throughout your exam, so that you can walk away feeling 100% successful.

The package provides up to 7.5 hours of working with a seasoned coach (not bad for only $500) whose expertise is helping coaches discover what I call their unique “coaching magnificence”. 

If you know you want to sign up for these SIX calls and work with me one-on-one to turbo boost your coaching skills, create coaching confidence and 100 percent exam success, to go directly to the Paypal link below and make your payment of $500 to lock your appointment.

It is recommended you allow at least two months before your exam to accommodate all SIX sessions, so you have plenty of time to not just learn this information, but to incorporate it powerfully into your coaching.

(The truth is this package isn’t really about helping you with you exam. It’s about helping you discover that powerful and confident coach within you. It’s about turbo-boosting your coaching so that it will never be the same. It’s about taking those steps towards coaching mastery, and coaching jazz.  Want to know more, then contact me.)

But wait, there’s more!!!
Sign up for some EXTRA SPECIAL “REVERSE-COACHING”.  Coach me, as a real client, and then receive at least 30 minutes of deep and direct feedback on your coaching. It’s a blend of triad calls and supervision calls, but with the specific context of not only covering all your coaching skills, but also sharpening your listening skills so you can begin to evaluate and guide your own coaching. This amazing experience is $75, well below my usual rates.

However, if you add this to your Exam Prep experience, the price drops to only $50.  Your coaching will never be the same. Sign up now.

EXTRA BONUS: If you are needing a letter of recommendation for your credentials, after witnessing your coaching and providing that your skills are competent, I’m easily able to provide you with the support to become an accredited coach,

OK, now you’ve read everything about these Certification Confidence calls.  If you want to know more, you’re going to have to contact me for a complementary consultation to see for yourself how this is exactly what you and your coaching is needing. 
Or I guess the real question is, knowing all that is available to you, why would you not contact me right now and get yourself on that path towards your coaching confidence and exam success.

Or you could go back and review the information on these links.

Now at this point, if you're even a little curious, I encourage you to take one of three simple actions, whichever best applies..

A. CERTIFICATION EXAM PREP PACKAGE--COACHING CONFIDENCE AND SUCCESS If you know you want to sign up for these six calls and work with me one-on-one to turbo boost your coaching skills, create coaching confidence and 100% exam success, click here to go directly to Paypal.com and make your payment of $500 to lock your appointment. It is recommended you allow at least six weeks before your exam for all sessions, so you have plenty of time.

2. EXTRA SPECIAL REVERSE-COACHING: Coach me, as a real client, and then receive at least 30 minutes of deep and direct feedback on your coaching. It's a blend of your tri-pod calls and your Supervision calls, but with the specific context of not only covering the skills above and below the line, but also sharpening your listening skills so you can begin to evaluate your own coaching. This amazing experience is an additional $50 (well below my usual rates). If you've ever wanted to explode your coaching, this is the call for you. Click this link and add this to your Exam Prep experience. Your coaching will never be the same.

III. ICF CERTIFICATION/MENTORING PACKAGE If you're taking your exams through the ICF then you require 10 hours of coach mentoring. This likely should be a combination of attention to your coaching skill development as well as skilled feedback to your coaching. What a cooincidence that I offer both in a special 10 hour ICF Certification Package. You get the 6 Certification Exam Prep calls, PLUS: Three Reverse Coaching calls ALSO PLUS: Three good old fashioned Coaching Sessions (so you can also learn by experiencing as well as getting some good coaching.) All for the low price of only $950 EXTRA BONUS: Since I'll have witnessed first hand your coaching skills, if you show the appropriate skill level, I'll provide one of your required letters of recommendation. --- ALTERNATIVE PAYMENT OPTIONS: You can also pay it in two monthly payments of $500 apiece. Or in three easy payments of $350

And of course if you have any questions or need further information, please... CONTACT ME:
It's pretty easy. Just pick up the phone and call me at 630-484-2336 or click here to send an e-mail directly to me at ben@bedo.org. I look forward to hearing from you and to see how I can support you as your step into this new leg of your journey into coaching exam success.