Thank you for expressing your interest in the Principles Coach Certification course.

The Principles Coach Certification course consists of two sections: PrinciplesYou Certification and PrinciplesUs Enablement.

PrinciplesYou was built to help people learn about themselves—their key strengths, engagement styles, and motivations. Its creators include Ray Dalio (entrepreneur and investor), and expert psychologists Dr. Adam Grant, Dr. Brian Little, and Dr. John Golden.

30,000 individuals take the PrinciplesYou assessment each month. For this reason, the PrinciplesYou Certification was developed to empower coaches to administer individual debrief sessions post-assessment.

The insights provided by this course will give you the ability to debrief the assessment report and, through it, give your clients a deeper understanding of themselves, their strengths and weaknesses, and how to use self-awareness to engage more effectively in the meaningful projects in their work and lives.

Through a combination of self-study videos, readings, knowledge checks, and live practice sessions, you will learn:

One of the main principles of the PrinciplesYou Certification course is the process of reflection and experimentation. So you’re constantly learning how to advance your skills and integrate your knowledge with clients along the way, rather than sticking with the model and training you’ve gotten and just doing that over and over again.

After you complete the PrinciplesYou Certification part, and become a PrinciplesYou Certified Coach, you have the opportunity to learn how to coach teams to elevate interactions using the PrinciplesUs platform, which provides valuable insights and comparisons into personality dynamics.

PrinciplesUs Enablement will give you a solid understanding of the core functionalities and features of the PrinciplesUs team platform and how it can be effectively incorporated into team coaching sessions.

Principles Coach Certification is an expanded version of the program, which now includes the previous PrinciplesYou Certification with the addition of PrinciplesUs Enablement.

This expansion allows coaches to work not just with individuals but also with teams, leveraging insights into personality dynamics to enhance team interactions and performance.

The 8-module course spans over a 10-week period and employs a diverse range of effective learning techniques.

It combines:

On top of the self-study modules, there are two types of live sessions available within the course:

They developed this unique Certification course to teach you how to facilitate debrief sessions for the PrinciplesYou assessments with individuals through a combination of theory-based and experiential sessions.

You will also have one live session about PrinciplesUs with Zack Wieder, introducing the PrinciplesUs team coaching platform and its features.

Principles assessment is grounded in scientific research in the field of personality psychology.

It holds validity across different cultures, as it has been designed to be applicable to a global audience and is not limited to only English-speaking populations.

Unlike other personality assessments, Principles both splits and expands beyond The Big Five traits other assessments usually anchor in.

Besides:

It expands into an additional 12 sub-traits and traits. These additional personality dimensions provide a comprehensive, actionable understanding of an individual's personality.

Thank you for reaching out!

I’m sending a short version of the sample report of the PrinciplesYou assessment.

You can also take the assessment yourself on this link and see all the details of the full online version of the assessment and its features.

Yes! You are welcome to offer this to your clients, and in fact, they can take it for free at principlesyou.com.

The PrinciplesYou Certification program gives you the ability to debrief the assessment report and, through it, give your clients a deeper understanding of themselves, their strengths and weaknesses, and how to use self-awareness to engage more effectively in the meaningful projects of their work and lives.

Also, completing a PrinciplesYou Certification will open doors for you to debrief previous and new assessment takers by ensuring your profile is listed on the Coaching.com Principles Marketplace.

There are currently 1.5 million PrinciplesYou assessment takers to date and 30,000 new users a month yet to engage in a paid discovery session with a Certified PrinciplesYou Coach.

However, the assessment is available to all without charge, and individuals are free to take it and utilize it as they see fit—but without taking a course, cannot officially hold the title of a PrinciplesYou Certified Coach.

The assessment was launched publicly in 2021.

To date, it has had over 1.5 million people take the test, and sees over 30,000 new test takers per month.

The assessment has not been localized yet, but will be launching new languages in the near future.

Completing a PrinciplesYou Certification will open doors for you to debrief previous and new assessment takers by ensuring your profile is listed on the Coaching.com Principles Marketplace.

There are currently 1.5 million PrinciplesYou assessment takers to date and 30,000 new users a month yet to engage in a paid discovery session with a Certified PrinciplesYou Coach. And because you've previously been certified in another assessment, you'll pick up the new materials and be able to integrate the tools much more effectively.

Thanks for the question. Here are a few ROI examples for you:

Great question! 30,000 people take this assessment monthly, and once they do, they’ll be directed to our PrinciplesYou Certified Coach Directory to select a coach to do a paid debrief with. This is where you'll have an exclusive listing.

Once the individual does a debrief with you and has a great experience, they’ll be invited to engage in further sessions with you as their coach.

For the initial debrief session, you'll receive 75% of the debrief rate, and 75% if clients purchase an ongoing extended package.

How many hours of live training is it per week?
​How many hours of home study do you recommend?

To get the most value out of the course, be prepared to invest between 25–28 hours to fully immerse yourself in the content and apply it to your work over the course of 11 weeks.

Absolutely! The course would be highly beneficial for new coaches as it will equip them with skills to communicate effectively with different personality types.

Yes! We’ve heard from many experienced coaches how well this training has expanded their practice. This course is designed for experienced coaches that want to be challenged, practice with peers, and learn how to debrief results with PrinciplesYou assessment takers.

Both! Whether you're working with corporate clients or leading teams within a company, you will benefit from being trained to thoughtfully and accurately “debrief” individual assessment results and help them incorporate personality insight and feedback in a way that enhances them and helps them expand their practice.

👉 You can watch a free masterclass about PrinciplesYou here:
​https://www.coaching.com/principles/

Absolutely! The Principles Coach Certification program includes:

The Principles Coach Certification course empowers professionals to administer individual debrief sessions on the PrinciplesYou assessment. The insights provided by this course will give you the ability to debrief the assessment report and, through it, give your clients a deeper understanding of themselves, their strengths and weaknesses, and how to use self-awareness to engage more effectively in the meaningful projects of their work and lives.

The PrinciplesYou framework provides the foundation for accurate self-knowledge — and this is the key to achieving goals. In a team setting, each team member will discover their tendencies, talents, and opportunities for growth, pointing the way toward maximizing their potential. Even though you are working with a team, you are still working with each person as well.

Completing the PrinciplesYou Certification qualifies you to continue with PrinciplesUs Enablement, where you will learn how to utilize personality assessment data to facilitate meaningful conversations and interventions within a team setting. The PrinciplesUs Enablement course will primarily focus on creating a culture of growth to unlock team performance.

👉 You can watch a free masterclass about PrinciplesYou here:
​https://www.coaching.com/principles/

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The 9-module course spans over an 11-week period and employs a diverse range of effective learning techniques through a combination of self-study content, readings, knowledge checks, and live practice sessions.

For information and the most up-to-date schedule, visit:
👉 https://www.coaching.com/principles/certification/

All of the Module activities are self-study, meaning you can take them at your own pace. They get released on a weekly basis as you progress through the course.

Thank you for your question. You will have a dedicated 60-minute Q&A time with the course creators, Zack Wieder and Denise Clegg, where they will address the most common questions from the online community, as well as ones posted in the chat box during the session.

In case your question doesn’t get answered in the live session, you always have the option to post it to the dedicated thread inside the exclusive community platform.

Zack, Denise, and their faculty are monitoring the Community on a daily basis.

Where do I find materials, assignments, and other course information?

All course materials will be released under the Modules page on a weekly basis.

In order to access them, please note you need to complete the prior Module's activities.

In order to become a PrinciplesYou Certified Coach, you need to complete the following graduation requirements:

The Final Assessment will be multiple-choice and will be made available in the last week of the course. You must score 100% on the assessment to successfully complete the course; however, you can retake the assessment as many times as you need to achieve that score.

Attending the Q&A sessions is encouraged for your own learning enhancement, but these do not count toward the overall graduation requirements.

You can make up only one Practicum by following this procedure:

👉 Find the Missed Practicum Makeup process document here.

The Final Assessment will be multiple-choice and will be made available in the last week of the course, under the condition you’ve completed all of the prior module activities.

You must score 100% on the assessment to successfully complete the course; however, you can retake the assessment as many times as needed to achieve that score.

Thank you for your question. In order to attend the Q&A session:

Upon selecting your sessions, you will have the option to add all sessions to your calendar.
​Note: You will have your own unique join link for each session, so make sure to add them to your calendar.

Thank you for your question. In order to attend the Practicum session:

Upon selecting your group, you will be redirected to a page with the option to add all sessions to your calendar.
Within the calendar event, you will find your unique join link to each of the Practicum sessions.

A Practicum session is a live facilitated session with a group of up to 25 people.

During the session:

Past graduates consider these sessions their favorite part of the course.

Given that Practicum sessions are not recorded, it’s important that you try to attend all sessions live.

If you anticipate missing a Practicum session:

You can switch groups as many times as needed.

Note: To graduate, you are required to attend at least 6 out of 7 Practicums LIVE.

After you successfully pass the final assessment and complete all course requirements, you will receive an email from us with:

If you’ve completed all the requirements, your Certification Materials can be found in your Membership Area under:
​Graduation > Certification tab

Yes! The PrinciplesYou program is accredited by the International Coach Federation (ICF) with a Continuing Coach Education (CCE) accreditation, earning you 33 CCE Units.

CCE Units can be used toward renewing one of ICF's individual credentials—ACC, PCC, or MCC.
Please visit the ICF website to learn more about the individual accreditation process:
👉 coachingfederation.org/credentials-and-standards/renew-credential

You will receive:

CCE Units can be used toward renewing one of ICF's individual credentials—ACC, PCC, or MCC.
Please visit the ICF website to learn more:
👉 coachingfederation.org/credentials-and-standards/renew-credential

The PrinciplesYou course is accredited by the International Coach Federation (ICF) with a CCE accreditation. We haven’t considered applying for other accreditations at this time.