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Certified Fixing Negative Habits and Behaviour Coach

Online Certification  ·  10 Week  ·  Globally Recognised  ·  (CFIX)

✅ 2026 Edition 🎓 CPD Accredited 🌍 100+ Countries 📜 Digital + Physical Certificate 100% Online
Executive Summary

Certified Fixing Negative Habits and Behaviour Coach

Designed for today’s high-impact professionals, the Certified Fixing Negative Habits and Behaviour Coach (CFIX) delivers a rigorous Intermediate-level curriculum that equips participants with the knowledge, tools and frameworks needed to excel in instructional design, training delivery and learning management.

This 10 Week programme is structured around recognised instructional-design, quality-assurance and CPD standards, ensuring every graduate applies internationally validated methods to real-world challenges.

GLI’s CFIX holders are recognised by leading organisations across Africa, the Gulf, Europe and the Americas as qualified, results-driven professionals. Whether you are advancing your current career or transitioning into new responsibilities, this certification provides the competitive edge you need in 2026 and beyond.

Programme Overview

Certification at a Glance

Certification
Certified Fixing Negative Habits and Behaviour Coach
Acronym
CFIX
Category
Learning & Development
Level
Intermediate
Duration
10 Week
Delivery Mode
100% Online
Assessment
Online Examination
Certificate
Digital + Physical
CPD Eligibility
CPD Accredited
Alumni Benefits
GLI Network Access
Self-Paced
USD 399
Live Virtual
USD 599
Target Audience

Who Should Enrol?

  • The Working Alliance — applied to your own work
  • Questioning and Restraint — applied to your own work
  • Challenge, Safety and Change — applied to your own work
  • Boundaries, Ethics and Supervision — applied to your own work
  • Evaluating What Changed — applied to your own work
  • Contracting the Engagement — applied to your own work
Programme Inclusions

Everything Included in Your Enrolment

  • All study materials and study guide
  • Access to GLI online learning portal
  • Online examination and assessment
  • Digital certificate and digital badge
  • Physical certificate (shipped to you)
  • CPD credits for professional bodies
  • GLI alumni network membership
  • Facilitator and tutor support
  • Resource downloads and reference library
  • Automatic enrolment confirmation
Certification Benefits

Why This Certification Matters for Your Career

Career Advancement
Accelerate your career towards senior L&D, academic and learning-leadership roles
Professional Recognition
Credential aligned with recognised instructional-design, quality-assurance and CPD standards
Leadership Capability
Develop the strategic and operational skills to lead complex instructional design functions
Organisational Impact
Design and implement instructional design systems that drive performance and measurable results
Compliance Readiness
Master the standards, compliance and ethical governance central to instructional design
Global Employability
Qualify for instructional design roles across training providers, universities, corporates and education institutions worldwide
Competency Framework

Core Competencies You Will Develop

Counselling Theories and Models
Facilitation, Delivery and Learner Engagement
Positive Psychology and Wellbeing
Mindfulness, Resilience and Self-Leadership Assurance
Meaning, Purpose and Flourishing
Professional Ethics and Governance
Course Curriculum

Programme Modules

Click any module to explore the detailed curriculum topics included in this certification.

1
Foundations and Professional Context of Certified Fixing Negative Habits and Behaviour Coach
  • Certified Fixing Negative Habits and Behaviour Coach: industry context, trends and professional standards
  • The helping relationship and its purpose
  • History and scope of counselling and coaching
  • Professional roles, boundaries and settings
  • Ethical principles and codes of practice
  • The self of the practitioner
  • Cultural competence and diversity
  • Confidentiality, consent and safeguarding
  • The evidence base for talking therapies
  • Wellbeing and the biopsychosocial model
  • Career pathways and professional development
2
The Working Alliance
  • The working alliance and coaching presence
  • Questioning, listening and the coach’s restraint
  • Feedback, challenge and psychological safety in coaching
  • Sales forecasting and territory planning
  • Contracting and the three-way agreement
  • The boundary between coaching and therapy
  • Goal setting and behavioural change in coaching
  • Mentoring, sponsorship and developmental relationships
  • Ethics, supervision and reflective practice
  • Evaluating coaching outcomes
  • Team coaching and the team as client
  • Cultural context and coaching across difference
  • Building and running a coaching practice
  • Clinical assessment and shared formulation
  • Therapeutic modalities and choosing an approach
3
Questioning and Restraint
  • Questioning, listening and the coach’s restraint
  • The working alliance and coaching presence
  • Goal setting and behavioural change in coaching
  • Stages of change and readiness
  • Analytical techniques and bias
  • Preparing financial statements
  • Interpreting financial statements
  • Management accounts and dashboards
  • Budget vs actual and variance
  • Relapse prevention planning
  • Cost and profitability analysis
  • Forecasting and planning
  • Data visualisation for finance
  • Decision support and insight
  • Recovery capital and community
4
Challenge, Safety and Change
  • Feedback, challenge and psychological safety in coaching
  • Goal setting and behavioural change in coaching
  • The working alliance and coaching presence
  • Presenting, demonstrating and proposing
  • Negotiation and closing techniques
  • Risk assessment and safeguarding in practice
  • Trauma-informed delivery and its limits
  • Working with ambivalence and motivation
  • Group facilitation and group process
  • Record keeping, notes and professional documentation
  • Remote and telephone practice
  • Endings, relapse and maintaining change
  • Practitioner wellbeing and vicarious trauma
  • Outcome monitoring in therapeutic work
  • Referral, multi-agency work and the client pathway
5
Boundaries, Ethics and Supervision
  • The boundary between coaching and therapy
  • Ethics, supervision and reflective practice
  • Contracting and the three-way agreement
  • Psychodynamic and psychoanalytic approaches
  • Peer support and consultation
  • Sustaining ethical, effective practice
  • Ethical frameworks and codes of practice
  • Professional standards in the field
  • Coaching principles and ethics
  • The coaching relationship
  • Duty of care and risk management
  • Strengths-based coaching
  • Group and team coaching
  • Complaints, accountability and fitness to practise
  • Habits and behaviour design
6
Evaluating What Changed
  • Evaluating coaching outcomes
  • Goal setting and behavioural change in coaching
  • Contracting and the three-way agreement
  • Legal responsibilities and professional bodies
  • Driving effective, ethical outcomes
  • Psychoeducation and workshops
  • Designing an intervention or programme
  • Ethical, risk and feasibility considerations
  • Evidence-based practice
  • Values-based living
  • Coaching for resilience and wellbeing
  • Risk assessment and safety planning
  • Brand strategy, identity and architecture
  • Brand equity and positioning
  • Integrated marketing communications (IMC)
7
Contracting the Engagement
  • Contracting and the three-way agreement
  • The working alliance and coaching presence
  • Ethics, supervision and reflective practice
  • Treatment planning and review
  • Managing complexity and comorbidity
  • Social media and community management
  • Email marketing and automation
  • Workplace and organisational contexts
  • Marketing technology and the stack
  • Goal setting and action planning
  • Accountability and follow-through
  • Meaning, purpose and values
  • Behavioural and process addictions
  • Risk, protective and social factors
  • Outcome and process measures
8
Coaching Practice
  • Coaching challenging situations
  • Measuring coaching impact
  • Coaching, mentoring and on-the-job development
  • Coaching and skill development
  • Guard force management and supervision
  • Solvency, capital and prudential supervision
  • Wellbeing and resilience coaching
  • Measuring coaching outcomes
  • Coaching and developing team members
  • Mentorship, networks and the community of practice
  • Sales enablement and coaching
  • Supervised and unsupervised learning
  • Coaching and reinforcement
  • Financial regulation and prudential supervision
  • Coaching leaders and managers
9
Therapeutic Practice
  • Evidence-based practice and research literacy
  • Working with organisations on wellbeing
  • Practice management systems
  • Employment relationship and the psychological contract
  • Wellbeing and holistic health strategy
  • Resilience, wellbeing and stress management
  • Wellbeing and personal-effectiveness learning
  • Workplace wellbeing strategy
  • Wellbeing, fatigue and psychosocial risk
  • Innovation culture, incentives and psychological safety
  • Reputation and crisis communications
  • Psychometric and screening tools
  • Ethics of technology in practice
10
Ethics and Safeguarding
  • Professional ethics and responsibility (PMI)
  • Conflicts of interest and procurement ethics
  • Professional standards and ethics
  • Marketing and sales ethics
  • Emerging tools and innovation
  • Psychoeducation and public communication
  • Ethics and fair customer treatment
  • Professional ethics in customer service
  • Responsible and ethical service
  • Ethics and integrity in banking
  • Professional ethics and banking conduct
  • Ethics and professional conduct in security
  • Security ethics, use of force and accountability
  • Projects, programmes and portfolios
  • Ethics and treating customers fairly in insurance
11
Communication Skills
  • Corporate social responsibility communications
  • Presentation and public speaking
  • Assessment and feedback online
  • Professional report and presentation
  • Voice, communication and delivery
  • Feedback and developmental conversations
  • Language and communication training
  • Continuous feedback and performance conversations
  • Safety communication and campaigns
  • Communicating risk to the workforce
  • Toolbox talks and safety communication
  • Communicating financial results
  • Client feedback and satisfaction
  • Professional case study and presentation
  • Communicating with families and carers
12
Development and Learning
  • Advertising and creative development
  • Attachment and developmental theory
  • Lessons learned and development
  • Scaling delivery capability
  • Project management plan development
  • Schedule development and optimisation
  • Team development and effectiveness
  • Your one-year professional development trajectory
  • Business case and strategic alignment
  • Deep learning and neural networks
  • Complaint data and learning
  • Learning cultures and the learning organisation
  • Blended and hybrid learning design
  • Career and talent development
  • Motivation and self-directed learning
13
Groups and Facilitation
  • Designing and facilitating groups
  • Working with referrers and multidisciplinary teams
  • Leading groups and workshops
  • Collaboration and teamwork
  • Servant leadership and self-organising teams
  • Facilitation and workshops
  • Virtual and distributed teams
  • Team leadership and motivation
  • Leading project teams
  • Managing virtual and cross-cultural teams
  • Building high-performing project teams
  • Team formation and effectiveness models (Tuckman, Lencioni)
  • Managing team performance and dynamics
  • Cross-functional and matrix teams
  • Leading remote and hybrid teams
14
Behaviour and Change
  • Habit change and behaviour design
  • Change control and configuration
  • Organisational change management
  • Change and adoption in projects
  • Measuring change and project impact
  • Baseline setting and change control
  • Motivation and engagement
  • Managing organisational politics
  • Behaviour change and adoption of innovations
  • Foreign exchange and treasury operations
  • Technology governance and change control
  • Change talk and readiness
  • Foreign exchange and hedging
  • Engagement and motivation
  • Change management and adoption
15
Goals and Measurement
  • Dashboards and performance reporting
  • Capacity and performance management
  • Setting objectives, indicators and targets
  • Yield, productivity and profitability metrics
  • Evaluation metrics and monitoring
  • Linking CX to business performance
  • Net Promoter Score and satisfaction metrics
  • Performance management in service
  • Service quality and turnaround metrics
  • Credit risk measurement and mitigation
  • Sales performance and pipeline management
  • Social performance and outreach
  • Investment principles and objectives
  • Learning objectives and outcomes
  • Metrics and reporting
16
Leadership Context
  • Case management and referral
  • Category management and strategy
  • Theories and models of leadership and management
  • Absence and health management
  • Safety management systems (ISO 45001)
  • Project management principles and lifecycle
  • Financial, management and cost accounting distinguished
  • Management reporting and decision support
  • Capital structure and financing decisions
  • Reading financial statements as a manager
  • Conflicts of interest management
  • Security governance and management systems
  • Key account management
  • Performance management in sales
  • Journey management and tracking
17
Culture and Inclusion
  • The business case for diversity and inclusion
  • Belonging, culture and employee resource groups
  • HR's role in culture, values and employer brand
  • Safety culture and leadership
  • Cross-cultural communication
  • Creating a coaching culture
  • Agile and digital transformation projects
  • Brand strategy, identity and equity
  • Sustaining benefits and change
  • Earned value and forecasting
  • Lessons learned and knowledge management
  • Financial inclusion and agency banking
  • Financial inclusion strategy
  • Financial inclusion and serving underbanked markets
  • Nomination, succession and diversity
18
Client Relationships
  • Managing boundaries and dual relationships
  • Goal setting and contracting
  • The project environment and stakeholders
  • Stakeholder and sponsor management
  • Stakeholder rights and fair treatment
  • Procurement and contract value
  • Delivery, quality and stakeholder plan
  • Stakeholder identification and analysis
  • Procurement and contract management
  • Stakeholder engagement strategy
  • Building project relationships
  • Contractor and visitor safety
  • Contractor safety and shared workplaces
  • Categories of spend and stakeholders
  • Contract types and risk allocation
19
Risk and Compliance
  • Model risk and provisioning (IFRS 9)
  • Regulatory compliance and central-bank rules
  • Regulatory reporting and audits
  • Interest-rate risk and gap analysis
  • Asset-liability committee (ALCO) governance
  • Derivatives and risk instruments
  • Regulatory liquidity ratios (LCR, NSFR)
  • Control environment and risk assessment
  • Governance and the three lines model
  • Fraud risk and controls
  • Audit risk and materiality
  • Permit to work and high-risk task control
  • HSE legal duties and enforcement
  • Project management maturity assessment
  • Environmental, social and governance (ESG)
20
Evidence and Research
  • Service analytics and dashboards
  • Text and interaction analytics
  • Data privacy and consent
  • Influencing and presenting insights
  • Data ethics and customer privacy
  • Data protection and customer privacy
  • Data, analytics and customer insight
  • Data analytics in audit
  • Evidence, judgement and scepticism
  • Data migration and cleansing
  • Audit evidence, sampling and professional scepticism
  • Customer personas and insight
  • Marketing analytics and attribution
  • Web and campaign analytics
  • Customer data platforms and segmentation
21
Wellbeing and Resilience
  • Managing growth, risk and resilience
  • Operational risk and resilience
  • Stress testing and scenario analysis
  • Stress and psychosocial risk
  • Developing the project business case
  • Stress testing credit portfolios
  • Stress testing and scenarios
  • Crisis, resilience and contingency planning
  • Organisational resilience and adaptive strategy
  • Business continuity and resilience
  • Digital marketing strategy and channels
22
Workplace Context
  • Strengths, flow and engagement
  • Building trust and engagement
  • Advocacy and policy engagement
  • Workforce management and scheduling
  • Proactive engagement and success
  • Win-back and re-engagement
  • Workforce planning and scheduling
  • Employee experience and engagement
  • Customer and community engagement
  • Customer and employee satisfaction
  • Assurance engagements and standards
  • Measuring engagement and impact
  • Stakeholder mapping and engagement
  • Employee engagement models and drivers
  • Data protection and employee privacy
23
Practice and Business
  • Content marketing and editorial planning
  • Go-to-market and channel strategy
  • Marketing planning and budgeting
  • Setting objectives and marketing KPIs
  • Marketing and sales: scope, roles and value
  • The marketing concept and customer orientation
  • The marketing mix and the 7 Ps
  • Aligning marketing and sales (smarketing)
  • Digital disruption and modern go-to-market
  • Sales and marketing transformation
  • Digital and data-driven go-to-market
  • Listing, marketing and selling property
  • Real estate marketing channels and property portals
  • Insurance products and lines of business
  • Insurance pricing, premiums and loadings
24
Digital Delivery
  • Digital and market transformation
  • Digital advisory, e-extension and mobile services
  • Digital and self-service transformation
  • Self-service and digital support
  • Customer service technology stack
  • Technology selection and integration
  • Emerging service technologies
  • Digital, mobile and internet banking
  • Digital disruption and the future of banking
  • Digital transformation in banking
  • Branch-to-digital migration
  • Digital transformation and IT strategy
  • Digital procurement and the future of the profession
  • CRM and sales technology
  • Security technology selection and operation
25
Programme Delivery
  • Project roles and the project manager
  • Project governance and assurance
  • Project governance frameworks
  • Compliance and regulatory projects
  • Leading project governance
  • Innovation and continuous delivery
  • Building project management maturity
  • Sustainability and social impact in projects
  • Health, safety and compliance in delivery
  • Project KPIs and performance metrics
  • Quality and delivery metrics
  • Scheduling and planning tools
  • Project data, reporting and analytics
  • Automation in project delivery
  • AI and predictive project analytics
26
Community and Family Context
  • Corporate social responsibility and community impact
  • Group dynamics, facilitation and community mobilisation
  • Social media customer care
  • Corporate responsibility and community
  • Social media management: platforms, communities and algorithms
  • Measurement and analytics for media and social campaigns
  • Gender, youth and social inclusion in agricultural development
  • Community engagement and equity
  • Social and digital PR
  • Family intervention planning
  • Cost-benefit and investment appraisal
  • Community natural-resource governance
  • Social and collaborative learning
  • Governance in state, donor-funded and family-owned entities
27
Health Context
  • Measuring brand health
  • Brand health and measurement
  • Healthy work design
  • Confidentiality and health data
  • Forecasting and pipeline health
  • Project budgeting and financial control
  • Public health programmes: prevention and outreach
  • Funding, cash flow and financing
  • Healthcare quality, safety and accreditation
  • Health financing: budgets, insurance and out-of-pocket realities
  • Procurement and stock management for health commodities
  • Customer and brand health metrics
28
Standards and Quality
  • Reporting quality and governance
  • Evidence-based improvement
  • Project management standards (PMI, PRINCE2)
  • Continuous improvement and retrospectives
  • Driving measurable delivery improvement
  • Quality planning and assurance
  • Quality control and continuous improvement
  • Integrated risk and quality control
  • Data quality and governance
  • Continuous improvement and optimisation
  • Professional roles, ethics and standards for agricultural practitioners
  • Expected credit loss and portfolio quality
  • Product safety and standards
  • Sustainability standards (GRI, ISSB)
  • Board effectiveness and the quality of board information
29
Conflict and Resistance
  • Managing risk and difficult cases
  • Managing difficult conversations
  • Managing resistance and readiness
  • Negotiation and conflict management
  • Conflict resolution and negotiation
  • Conflicts of interest and transparency
  • Commercial negotiation and value capture
  • Sponsorship and negotiation selling
  • Negotiation with clients and partners
  • Managing difficult customers
  • Negotiation with buyers, suppliers and financiers
  • Negotiation strategy and planning
  • Negotiation tactics and behaviours
  • Property viewings, offers and negotiation to close
  • Conflict resolution over land, water and resources
30
Records and Reporting
  • Financial reporting frameworks (IFRS/GAAP)
  • Integrated and sustainability reporting
  • Record-keeping and data protection
  • Data, records and confidentiality tech
  • Professional writing and reports
  • Writing advisory reports that drive decisions
  • Reporting to boards and executives
  • Monitoring, control and reporting
  • Reporting and dashboards
  • Document and configuration management
  • Reporting to leadership
  • Control monitoring and reporting
  • Tender planning and documentation
  • Board reporting and investor relations
  • Board reporting and information flows
Learning Outcomes

What You Will Achieve

  • The Working Alliance — applied to your own work
  • Questioning and Restraint — applied to your own work
  • Challenge, Safety and Change — applied to your own work
  • Boundaries, Ethics and Supervision — applied to your own work
  • Evaluating What Changed — applied to your own work
  • Contracting the Engagement — applied to your own work
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Frequently Asked Questions

Common Questions

What is the CFIX certification?

Yes. GLI certifications are recognised across 100+ countries and are aligned with recognised instructional-design, quality-assurance and CPD standards. Graduates receive a digital certificate, a physical certificate and CPD credits recognised by employers worldwide.

Who should enrol in the CFIX?

This certification is ideal for Trainers and Facilitators, Instructional and Curriculum Designers, Learning and Development Professionals and Academic and Education Administrators, and other professionals seeking to formalise their expertise in instructional design, training delivery and learning management with a globally recognised credential.

How long does the CFIX certification take to complete?

The programme is structured over 10 Week and offers flexible learning modes. Self-paced learners can progress at their own schedule, while live virtual participants follow a structured cohort schedule with facilitator-led sessions.

Is the CFIX internationally recognised?

Yes. GLI certifications are recognised across 100+ countries and are aligned with recognised instructional-design, quality-assurance and CPD standards. Graduates receive a digital certificate, a physical certificate and CPD credits recognised by employers worldwide.

What is the cost of the CFIX certification?

The Certified Fixing Negative Habits and Behaviour Coach is offered in two formats: Self-Paced at USD 399 and Live Virtual at USD 599. Corporate group rates are available for organisations enrolling 5 or more participants. Contact GLI for a bespoke corporate training quotation.

What does the CFIX certification include?

Enrolment includes all study materials and study guides, access to GLI's online learning portal, online examination, digital certificate and badge, physical certificate (posted), CPD credits, GLI alumni network membership, and ongoing facilitator support.

What is the assessment format for the CFIX?

The Certified Fixing Negative Habits and Behaviour Coach is assessed through an online examination consisting of multiple-choice questions, case study analysis, and practical application assignments. The assessment is designed to evaluate real-world competency, not just theoretical recall.

What CPD credits do I earn from the CFIX?

The Certified Fixing Negative Habits and Behaviour Coach carries Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credits, which can be applied towards professional body requirements including recognised international professional associations.

Can I study the CFIX while working full-time?

Absolutely. The self-paced option is designed for busy working professionals and allows you to study when and where it suits you. Live virtual sessions are typically scheduled in the evenings or on weekends to accommodate professional commitments.

What career outcomes can I expect from the CFIX?

Graduates progress towards senior L&D, academic and learning-leadership roles. The CFIX strengthens your expertise in instructional design, training delivery and learning management and positions you for advancement across training providers, universities, corporates and education institutions.

Graduate Voices

What Our Alumni Say

The curriculum was directly applicable to my daily work. I immediately applied what I learned and saw results within weeks of completing the programme.

Head of Learning
Private Sector

GLI's certification is the most practical professional programme I have attended. The international frameworks gave me credibility with my employer and clients.

L&D Manager
NGO Sector

I earned my CFIX while working full-time. The self-paced format made it possible, and the quality of the content is genuinely world-class.

Lead Facilitator
Government
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