Certified Productivity Coach
Credential

Complete and graduate from Coach Approach Training Institute’s Foundation Training program.

Completion of these graduate-level courses:

• Holistic Time Coaching or
• Productivity Coaching

and

• Cultivating Coaching Courage or
• The Identity Module (self study) or
• An Independent Project (self study in collaboration with CATI)

• Completion of 10 mentor coaching hours
• All 10 required hours may be individual mentoring hours with a qualified Coach Approach Training Institute mentor coach
• Up to 7 hours may be from the group mentor/lab course (no fewer than 3 hours must be individual mentor coaching hours)
• The 10 mentor coaching hours must extend over no fewer than 12 weeks
• The mentoring (group or individual) must be with an ICF-credentialed coach who has been trained and designated as a Coach Approach Training Institute Mentor Coach
• Mentoring sessions must address the applicant’s coaching skills and competence in support of a strong certification recording (not marketing, for example)

Students should create a client coaching log starting when they began comprehensive coach training (in Coaching Essentials). To be included on the log, the client must be aware in all cases: 1) that they are in a coaching interaction; and 2) the expectations of the client and coach.

The logged client coaching hours must meet these requirements:

100 Hours of Whole-Session Coaching
Stand-alone coaching using an awareness-action-learning coaching process that is independent of another client service

• At least 80 of the 100 hours must be paid hours (bartered coaching is considered paid)
• At least 8 clients
• No more than 20 hours where another Coach Approach student is the client
• At least 25 hours must have been logged in the 18 months before submitting a credential application

15 hours of Integrated Coaching
Designated spot coaching that often is tangential to another client service

• At least two clients on the log
• Coaching time should be tracked in fractions of an hour
• Examples
  • a pause in a consulting or hand-on session to engage in targeted coaching to resolve client indecision;
  • a coaching interlude to align a client’s goals or perspective immediately before an on-site or virtual consulting session;
  • a coaching interlude after an on-site or virtual consulting session to identify, explore and capture any resulting client learning or awareness
  • brief coaching (typically by phone) with a client at the time of task engagement (aligning, initiating energy, preparedness, perspective) or task completion (client celebration, learning, next steps).

Record and submit an actual client coaching session, 30-60 minutes long, that demonstrates whole session coaching and ICF core competencies at a minimum Associate Certified Coach level.

Summary of relevant professional organizer or similar professional and life experience. (For a CPC proof may include a CPO® or CPO-CD® credential or business start-up date, summaries of client hours and related time management or productivity training, and life experience.)

PLEASE NOTE: For all up-to-date information, details, and requirements, students seeking any CAT Institute credential should refer to the application for that calendar year.