For Coaches · Adaptive Effectiveness™ Coach Training
Differentiate Your Coaching With Adaptive Effectiveness™
Give your clients a way to recognize what is driving their behavior under pressure—and a practical method for changing it.
Adaptive Effectiveness gives coaches a diagnostic framework for identifying the effectiveness needs beneath clients’ emotions, testing the beliefs shaping those needs, and helping clients develop more adaptive strategies.
Free 26-minute video
Coaching Leaders Through the Leadership Application Gap
Why do capable leaders keep repeating behaviors that undermine their effectiveness—even when they know better?
Discover how Adaptive Effectiveness™ coaching helps leaders recognize what their emotions are telling them, change the beliefs driving their behavior, and develop more adaptive responses under pressure.
Ready to Explore Adaptive Effectiveness Coach Training?
Learn how to use this methodology to help your clients retire recurring derailing behaviors, solve problems more effectively, resolve conflicts, and develop greater ownership and accountability.
Three Reasons This Opportunity Is Emerging Now
Coaches need a stronger differentiator.
An ICF credential establishes professional credibility, but it no longer necessarily distinguishes one qualified coach from another.
Leadership development has an important unmet need.
Organizations have invested heavily in teaching leaders what effective leadership looks like. The remaining challenge is helping leaders access and apply those capabilities when pressure rises.
Adaptive Effectiveness creates a new specialty for coaches.
AE equips coaches to work upstream of behavior—helping clients recognize the emotional information, assumptions, and strategies driving what they do under pressure.
The payoff for your coaching
See What Your Clients Can’t Yet See
“The Adaptive Effectiveness framework has given me X-ray vision into what’s driving my clients’ behavior, and a fast, reliable method for helping them change it.”— Coach training participant
Most coaching begins with the behavior a client wants to change. Adaptive Effectiveness helps you go farther upstream.
When a client becomes defensive, micromanages, avoids conflict, overcommits, reacts angrily, or keeps repeating a pattern they already know is ineffective, AE gives you a systematic way to ask:
Eight High-Impact Leadership Practices
What Adaptive Effectiveness Enables You to Help Clients Do
Adaptive Range
Reduce Blind Spots
Help leaders recognize emotions they habitually overlook or misinterpret and accurately decode the effectiveness needs those emotions signal.
Retire Recurring Derailing Behaviors
Help leaders identify and change the habitual interpretations and responses underlying defensiveness, avoidance, blame, overcontrol, and other recurring patterns.
Adaptive Thinking
Get Unstuck
Help leaders identify the effectiveness need requiring attention, test the beliefs and assumptions keeping them stuck, and develop better strategies.
Build Momentum From What Is Working
Use positive emotions to identify and reinforce the beliefs and strategies producing successful outcomes.
Adaptive Collaboration
Resolve Conflict
Help leaders move beyond blame and defensiveness to understand the effectiveness needs underlying disagreements and develop mutually effective solutions.
Accelerate Innovation
Help people combine their perspectives, insights, and needs to discover better solutions together.
Adaptive Empowerment
Inspire Ownership and Accountability
Help leaders coach others to take greater responsibility for meeting their own effectiveness needs rather than relying on direction, rescue, or control.
Accelerate Learning and Growth
Help leaders use everyday experiences, challenges, and successes to strengthen the adaptive skills of the people they lead.
A repeatable coaching process
Go Beyond Behavior Change
Effectiveness Need
Adaptive Effectiveness gives coaches a repeatable process for moving from the behavior a client reports to the underlying problem the client needs to solve.
Four Transformative Skills
The Method You Will Learn
Adaptive Range
Feel and Name Emotions → Decode Needs
The breadth of emotions you can feel, and how accurately you decode them into your effectiveness needs.
Adaptive Thinking
Feel and Name Emotions → Decode Needs → Test Beliefs → Upgrade Strategies
Help clients convert emotional information into better judgment and action.
Adaptive Collaboration
Identify Needs → Validate Assumptions → Build a Win-Win Solution
Help clients work through disagreement without blame, avoidance, or escalation.
Adaptive Empowerment
Help leaders use the same process to increase ownership and effectiveness in others.
Adaptive Effectiveness™ Coach Training
Become an Adaptive Effectiveness™ Coach
A four-week training program.
- Adaptive Range Assessment
Experience the methodology yourself and identify opportunities to expand your own Adaptive Range.
- 6 Hours of Online Learning
Learn the Self-Effectiveness Theory of Emotion and the four transformative AE skills.
- Four 90-Minute Live Practice Sessions
Build proficiency in applying AE coaching techniques through guided practice.
- 10 ICF Resource Development Continuing Coach Education Units
- Demonstration of Coaching Proficiency
Demonstrate proficiency in coaching clients using the eight AE practices to earn certification.
- Certification
Upon successfully completing the program requirements, earn the designation Certified Adaptive Effectiveness™ Coach.
Who it’s for
Adaptive Effectiveness Coach Training Is Designed For…
Executive coaches, leadership coaches, internal coaches, organization development consultants, and other experienced practitioners who want a deeper methodology for helping leaders change derailing patterns under pressure.
Build on your existing coaching capability with a differentiated framework and a structured method you can apply with clients.
Your next step
Help Leaders Close the Leadership Application Gap
Adaptive Effectiveness coaching helps leaders do more than understand what effective leadership requires. It helps them change their automatic responses so they can apply what they know when pressure rises.
Become a Certified Adaptive Effectiveness™ Coach and bring this methodology to your clients.
Interested in the Opportunity for Coaches?
Watch our 12-minute video: Why Now Is an Ideal Time to Become an Adaptive Effectiveness™ Coach.