Frequently Asked Questions About the 2-Part Certified Tough Transitions Career Coach Program
ICF CEU Credit: The CTTCC program has been granted Continuing Education (CCE) credit by the International Coach Federation (ICF) for 18 hours of Core Competencies and 6 hours of Resource Development. Note that half of those credits (9 hours of Core Competencies and 3 hours of Resource Development) are granted for the 6-week life-to-work session and the remaining half are granted for the 6-week work-to-work session.
The Certified Tough Transitions Career Coach Program will give you a proven process and targeted techniques to help clients from unemployment, under-employment, or un-happy employment. You will be equipped and inspired to help even those making tough transitions to choose and market themselves wisely as they transition their careers or get back to work. Your new confidence and expertise will allow you to respond to clients at all levels, and build your business by coaching the growing number of people making tough career transitions!!!
Other benefits you’ll receive:
- 5-Step Framework that has helped thousands of jobseekers find their motivation to work and implement very practical strategies to impress decision makers
- 3 subtle but important levels of motivation to discover
- 3 steps to uncover and reduce the client’s fears & shift them into confident action
- A 3-part model to clarify job and career direction
- 4 techniques the client can use to prove they can do the job
- A 5-step process for saying the hard things to clients in a supportive way
- 6 very practical solution tools to overcome barriers
- 4 keys to unlock “side doors”
- 4 strategies to decide how to search
- Dozens of examples clients can use to “language” responses to barriers
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How to Become Certified
To earn the Certified Tough Transitions Career Coach, you must complete The Academies’ two 6-week tough transitions training courses:
Complete both courses to become a Certified Tough Transitions Career Coach. This allows you to display the unique CTTCC logo and market yourself a “Certified Tough Transitions Career Coach”. Each course offers great learning and continuing education hours, and can be completed separately from the Certification.
Technology:
Class sessions are done via teleseminar. You will call into a telephone bridge line. You will need a computer for obtaining email and downloading handouts. Also, if you don’t already have one, purchase a good quality telephone headset and use a telephone that is not dependent on a battery charge.
Time Commitment:
In addition to class-time hours, you will likely need to spend between one to two hours each week for reading pre-class material. Participants from other certification programs report spending additional time implementing new coaching and marketing concepts learned in class (e.g., revising their web site to include job search coaching services; writing value statements to articulate the return-on-investment that coaching clients receive; setting aside “think” time to envision the direction they’d like to take their business, etc.) – and we expect this will be the case for the Certified Tough Transitions Program as well.
This certification includes a beautifully designed unique logo. To earn the certification as a “Certified Tough Transitions Career Coach,” register for both of the 6-week tracks now and save nearly $700!
Tough Transitions Career Coach
(includes BOTH of the 6-week Tough Transitions training courses listed above):
1 payment of $1,997 or 4 payments of $525
Email Shelly for more details: Shelly@TheAcademies.com
Taste Test
5 Steps for How to Say the Hard Things (audio)
How To Help Jobseekers Avoid Getting Screened Out (video below)

