Description
Gain the credentials you need to become a successful Business Coach. The Global Professional Diploma in Business Coaching offers a comprehensive program designed to equip you with the essential knowledge and skills to effectively coach entrepreneurs, business owners, and executives. Learn the core principles of coaching along with the latest theories and best practices needed to drive business success today. Discover how to leverage a wide range of assessment tools with your clients to evaluate business performance, identify growth opportunities, and build strategic plans. Develop expertise in fostering innovation, applying emotional intelligence, and implementing ethical practices to solve complex business challenges. Gain the skills to guide clients in scaling their businesses, optimizing operations, and building high-performing teams that deliver sustainable results.
- Level: Aspiring Business Advisors, H-R / Learning and Development Professionals
- Courses: 8 (see course details below)
- Learning: On Demand 24/7
- CPD Hours: 160 Hours (each course takes approx. 20 hours to complete)
- Duration: 6 Months
- Certification: GMA Professional Credentials
Key Benefits
By enrolling in the Global Professional Diploma in Business Coaching, you will earn industry-recognized credentials that validate your expertise in business growth, performance improvement, and strategic coaching. The program equips you with practical tools and methodologies to help clients assess their business performance, analyze financial data, and identify areas for increased efficiency and profitability. You’ll develop the capability to guide business owners, entrepreneurs, and executives in setting and achieving commercial goals, improving operations, and expanding market reach. Through hands-on learning, you’ll gain the skills to support clients with business planning, sales strategy, and sustainable growth initiatives. You will also learn to use key business assessment tools to inform decision-making and track progress. Upon completion, you can showcase your certification and digital credentials on professional platforms, enhancing your profile and credibility as a qualified Business Coach.
Program Content
The program comprises the following courses:
COURSE 1: FOUNDATIONS IN COACHING
This course helps managers and H-R professionals develop the skills and knowledge to plan for and implement coaching sessions with their employees, and with teams. Learn about the best coaching models to use, and the skills of on-to-one coaching and helping employees develop their skills and capabilities.
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COURSE 2: BUSINESS COACHING ESSENTIALS
This course provides new business coaches with a comprehensive insight into the best practices used by professional coaches in advising business owners, entrepreneurs and business executives in understand business performance, identifying opportunities for improvement, assessing market conditions and identifying opportunities for growth. You will learn how to apply a range of diagnostic tools to analyze financial, market and operational performance, and identify areas for increased efficiency and profitability, and frame transformation plans.
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COURSE 3: PROFESSIONAL COACHING SKILLS
This course provides learners with the essential toolkit of coaching skills, and you will learn how to apply a comprehensive range of tools to plan, and deliver coaching to a your team, and to individuals across different roles and management levels. In addition, you will also learn how to evaluate outcomes of coaching, and how to evaluate your own effectiveness as a coach.
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COURSE 4: FINANCIAL ANALYSIS AND DECISION MAKING
Designed for business coaches, consultants and non-financial roles, this course in financial analysis and decision making will equip you with the knowledge to interpret financial statements easily, and to participate with confidence in management meetings and dialogue on the financial planning and performance of the organization. In this comprehensive course you will learn the fundamentals of financial and management accounting, including financial statements, profit and loss accounts, and balance sheets. and cash flow. In addition, you will learn about how to interpret the performance of a business using a range of the most commonly applied financial ratios.
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COURSE 5: DEVELOPING BUSINESS PLANS
The Global Business Planning course is designed to enable managers to develop a complete business plan, with associated business financials. Your plan will enable you to justify the cost-effectiveness of your budgeting, and submit requests for financing, whether bank or venture capital investment. The product of this course will be a fully viable 3 to 5 year business plan, which you can use to build your business, and gather support from your stakeholders, whether senior managers or investors.
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COURSE 6: DEVELOPING BUSINESS STRATEGY
This course is designed for senior managers and business coaches tasked with facilitating the process of strategic planning in the organization. You will learn about contemporary strategic theory and how to establish the groundwork for development of an organization-wide strategic planning program. You will also learn how to the develop Vision, Mission, Values, Goals, Objectives and Action Plans for your organization.
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COURSE 7: STRATEGIC MARKETING MANAGEMENT
This course provides a comprehensive overview of the strategic and tactical considerations required in developing and deploying a viable and successful marketing strategy. You will learn how to use a range of models to evaluate your marketing strategy and product positioning, and develop strategies to drive growth.
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COURSE 8: MANAGING A SUCCESSFUL COACHING BUSINESS
Managing a Successful Coaching Business is a practical training course designed for professionals looking to launch and grow a thriving business coaching practice. The course covers all essential aspects of setting up and running your own coaching business, from defining your niche and structuring your services to handling legal and financial setup. You’ll learn effective strategies for customer acquisition, lead generation, and client relationship management, along with how to price your services and build a steady client pipeline. The program also explores key resource requirements, including tools, platforms, and support systems needed for efficient operations. Finally, you’ll develop a clear growth strategy—covering brand positioning, service expansion, partnerships, and scaling—equipping you with the knowledge and confidence to build a sustainable and profitable coaching business.
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Skills / Knowledge
On completion of the courses in this program, you will be able to:
Certification
Professional Credential Awards
CPD Certificates – On completion of each course in the program, you will be able to download and print a Course Completion Certificate, detailing your Continuing Professional Development Credits.
Digital Credentials – On successful completion of all your courses, you will receive an email with a link to your Digital Credentials. These will include your Digital Badge and Digital Certificate.
Social Share – You will be able to share your digital credentials on LinkedIn and other social media platforms.
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