Whether you want to coach on the side or go full time later, this course teaches the craft in order. Coaching models, goal setting, ethics and how to run a session well. No experience needed, built for a working week.
The hard part of coaching is the middle of a session. Models, questions and structure give you somewhere to go when the room goes quiet.
Nothing here has a start date or a class time. Many people take their first clients on evenings and weekends while the pay cheque keeps coming.
Boundaries, inclusion and when to refer someone on. These are the parts people wing, and the ones clients notice.
Coaching in Australia is mostly small and self run at the start: a few clients, sessions over video, referrals doing the selling. Community programs and workplace wellbeing teams also take people on. The work is listening, notes, goals and follow ups, and it suits people who ask more than they tell.
Supporting an established coach's client load.
Goal and habit work with individual clients.
Helping people plan a move or a return to work.
Keeping a group program running week to week.
Scheduling, records and client communication.
Standards and boundaries inside a practice.
Roles where these skills are useful, not promised outcomes. Every role is different, and some need more study or experience. The college recommends further training or an internship for the hands-on experience employers look for.
Three things a weekend coaching badge tends to skip.
Inclusive and ethical coaching practice is taught in full rather than mentioned in passing.
Running the hour itself: opening, pacing, keeping notes and closing on something the client can act on.
The final topic covers coaching careers and business basics, so the money side is not left to guesswork.
Certificate of Achievement · The Career Academy
Awarded by the college once you finish.
A link in the platform you can share on SEEK.
Models and structure you can use from week one.
An advisor walks through the eleven topics.
Weekly plan, or pay upfront in full.
Foundations, models, then goals and change.
Friends first, then your first paying client.
No. There is no experience requirement and no business plan expected. It starts at the beginning.
From $29 a week on a plan, with no deposit and no credit check. An advisor confirms current pricing.
That is up to you. Study is self paced with no fixed class times, so people fit it around work and family.
Yes, and many do. Sessions run by video, so a few early clients fit into evenings or weekends.
No. Coaching careers and business basics come in the final topic, once you know you enjoy the work.
No exams, ever. You work through the topics and the assessment tasks that sit with them.
It carries a Certificate of Achievement, and the college holds ICOES and CPD Standards Office accreditation and belongs to the International Approval and Recognition Council. That is accreditation for professional development. It is not nationally recognised, and the college is not an RTO. Those are different things, and life coaching is not a registered profession in Australia, so no licence sits behind this work.
Yes. A 10-day money back guarantee runs from enrolment.
You enrol in this course through The Career Academy, an online college in Australia that delivers the course itself.
The college has run for over 15 years and helps more than 25,000 students a year, with tutor support by phone and email through business hours.
Picture the hour where someone finally says the thing out loud, and then writes down what they will do about it.