The Coaching Achievement Awards are coaching’s most prestigious awards for coaching from the IIC for success and achievement through coaching. If as a coach you are proud of your achievements why not gain international recognition by asking your clients to support your entry to the IIC’s Coaching Achievement Awards.

The Coaching Achievement Awards celebrate the achievements of coaching clients by awarding the coach with an internationally recognised Coaching Achievement Award. These awards highlight the vision, the commitment, and the will to succeed of those who have used coaching to ensure achievement. Get the international recognition that your coaching deserves.

If your clients think you’ve got what it takes to become a winner, ask them to tell us about your coaching and their achievements and you could be collecting your Coaching Achievement Award in the new year.

WHAT ARE THE COACHING ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS?

The IIC’s Coaching Achievement Awards are internationally recognised awards for coaches who have worked with their clients to lasting success and achievement. Effective coaching enables clients to achieve their dreams, their aspirations, and their goals. The IIC’s aim is to recognise coaches who create this achievement through their coaching skills – to give you the reward and recognition that you deserve.

Being recognised through the Coaching Achievement Awards builds your professional reputation, and all Coaching Achievement Awards finalists will be celebrated at the next International IIC Conference. The use of the Coaching Achievement Awards logo on your web-site, stationery and literature is a mark of your coaching excellence.

The quality that all winners of the Coaching Achievement Awards show is that they will all be able to demonstrate the success and achievement of their clients. Coaches may be coaches who are working with clients in an organisation or coaching individuals. Winners show, not only their coaching skills, but also the outstanding results achieved by their clients.

HOW TO ENTER THE COACHING ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS!

Enter the Coaching Achievement Awards by sending your entry by email to awards@the-iic.org. Each application will be acknowledged by email. Closing date for application is 30^th November, 2010.

The Coaching Achievement Awards are internationally recognised awards for coaches whose clients can demonstrate lasting success and achievement through the benefits of coaching. Although the Coaching Achievement Awards are run by the IIC, these awards are open to all coaches, whether Members or not of the IIC. The Coaching Achievement Awards are a means of recognising and rewarding coaching excellence. Being entered for these coaching awards will promoted your skills as a coach. Winning one of the Coaching Achievement Awards allows you to use the Coaching Achievement Awards logo on your web-site, material, and literature; and will build your professional reputation.

The quality shared by all entrants and winners of the Coaching Achievement Awards is each entry will demonstrate the outstanding results, the achievements and successes of each client.

The quality that all winners of the Coaching Achievement Awards show is that they will all be able to demonstrate the success and achievement of their clients. Coaches may be coaches who are working with clients in an organisation or coaching individuals. Winners show, not only their coaching skills, but also the outstanding results achieved by their clients.

The IIC is looking for entries that demonstrate the achievement and success of clients through the skills utilised by their coaches. Therefore entries are welcome from all coaches – from those employed by organisations to coaches who are self-employed (in any capacity).

GETTING STARTED

If you know you’ve got what it takes to be an applicant and to become a finalist, the application process is a simple one. We need to receive your application form detailing your details, your coaching case study, and supporting evidence from your client of their achievements and successes.

As the information submitted will include sensitive information, all information received by the IIC is treated in the strictest confidence. Only that which is detailed in the application as information to be published will be made available to the public.

ELIGIBILITY

Any coach or coaching client is eligible to apply. Both Members and non-Members of the IIC may apply. A coaching client may apply on behalf of their coach. Where this is the case, we would request that the client notifies their coach of their intention. Where the application is from a coach employed by an organisation and the client is the organisation, we would request that the coach gets permission from their employment organisation.

Each element of the entry has a maximum word count – no entry will be eligible if the entry exceeds the word count in one element of the entry. Please verify your word count carefully – remember that using Microsoft Word Count includes bullets, paragraph numbers and other functions.

DOCUMENTATION

The application form does allow for enough space for element of the entry, where additional space is required, please clearly cross reference and insert additional A4 sheets at the end of the application, as required. Only documentation submitted at the time of the entry of the application will be taken into consideration. Where documentation is submitted by post, it should be submitted as individual pages and should not be bound or laminated. The application forms must be completed in BLOCK CAPITALS. All additional documentation submitted must be submitted in typewritten format. It is important to remember that all documentation submitted supporting the standards of the coach must show and support the achievements and success of the client.

Your application can include photographs, graphs, charts, table, etc.; and the words count towards the total number of words within your application.

All documentation must be submitted in English. Where English is not the first language of the client or the coach, the first language must be included in the submitted documentation.

Where the client selects to submit the information directly to the IIC, the coach must provide the client with the outline requirements for the entry.

PUBLICITY

The IIC will assume approval from the coach as part of the entry. The details of all winners (name, company name, web-site) with a 150-word outline and photograph will be published on the IIC’s web-site.

The IIC will run a publicity campaign after the Coaching Achievement Awards are awarded. The information submitted for this campaign will include the details listed in the paragraph above, unless the IIC is informed otherwise. We will ensure that the national press of the country of each winner is included in this publicity campaign. Therefore where you have contacts with your national press please do not hesitate to provide these details as part of your application. As with any publicity the IIC cannot guarantee press coverage.

Outline details of all coaches entered, will be published on the IIC’s web-site.

COLLATING YOUR APPLICATION

Reading through this section of the notes will ensure that your application is completed successfully. Please do not hesitate to contact awards@the-iic.org where you have any questions before you submit your entry.

There is no restriction to the number of applications that are submitted for each coach. It is important that each application is supported by the evidence from the client, is completed accurately and within the guidelines published in this documentation.

Evidence
The evidence included for each application must include:

Major changes brought about in clients life (this must include a minimum of 3 major changes)


Coaching beyond the call of normal duty


What impressed the client most about the coach (a minimum of 3 points)


Why the client thinks the coach deserves an award (no more than 500 words)


Any memorable moments from a coaching session (in bullet form and the benefits brought about this by these moments)


Would you recommend this coach to a colleague or a friend?

Goals, Successes and Achievements
The application must include:

Goal(s)


Date that coaching commenced


Where the client was at the start of the coaching relationship (no more than 100 words)


Successes (in bullet form – highlight where these relate to the goal(s))


Achievements (in bullet form – highlight how these relate to the goal(s))


Any memorable moments from a coaching session (in bullet form and the benefits brought about this by these moments)


Return on Investment – Value for Money