Accomplishment Coaching

Bottom line: Made big promises to get me to join, seemed more interested in my money than me, their coaching ultimately did not help, and coaches/trainers acted inconsistent to what they teach.

The company prides itself in offering one of the most expensive and rigorous coach training programs yet failed to deliver. By the end of the course I was worse off than when I started and had to deal with the emotional trauma of spending all that time, effort and money for naught. Far from the great life they claim they want others to have.

I was in a bad place in life when one of their coaches told me about the coach training program. After telling them what I really wanted from life the coach promised if I did the program I would get it. I regret not being more cautious.

The program is very intense and throughout the course they seemed more focused on making sure I paid my fees. Never mind that my goals did not seem to be getting any closer despite the coaching and all my efforts. For all their talk of loving people they were more keen on having us make declarations on when the next payment would be made.

"Trust the tools, trust your coaches, trust the process," they said. I complied believing that if I worked on getting past my issues with money I would eventually have my breakthrough and finally get what I really wanted from life, what they promised I would get from joining the program. That unfortunately didn't happen.

Each trainee is assigned a coach for the duration of the program. The assigned coach may be one with years of experience or they may have just graduated from the program before you came in. I don't know how the company can justify charging so much and then assigning less-experienced coaches.

On top of this the company does not act in a way consistent with its own teachings. They talk a lot about love yet once I'd paid all my fees and was no longer giving them my free labor, communication from the company quickly dried up even though they knew I was in bad shape. The few conversations I had with them after graduating generally went like this: "I'm sorry to hear about your predicament and I'm sorry the program didn't work out for you. By the way, will you be supporting the new round of the program? And who in your life would benefit from being enrolled into the program?"

They talk about responsibility and integrity but I saw little of it. They will brag about how all trainees graduated from the course satisfied, that no one has rated them below a 4 out of 5 and will plaster positive testimonials on their website while ignoring those whose lives were not improved by their coaching. Perhaps they ought to do a follow-up on graduates 6 to 12 months after leaving the program.

The content of the course is useful even if it is not unique. However the people who make up and represent the company fall far from the lofty ideals they espouse. I can be understanding and accept they are only human who make mistakes but given the amount they charge they only succeeded in setting the bar much too high for themselves.

If you are considering enrolling into a coach training program I would encourage you to at least research what other organisations offer. If you are seriously considering this course talk to graduates of the program including those who chose not to continue with the company or support the program. No doubt people have benefited greatly from this coach training program but those that don't seem to be swept under the rug.