The Coaching Institute
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The Coaching Institute has 1.3 star rating based on 35 customer reviews. Consumers are mostly dissatisfied.
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Pros: Are great at sales and marketing, Unscrupulous tactics, Manipulated.
Cons: Lack of credible qualifications, Money grabbing, Upselling.Recent recommendations regarding this business are as follows: "Joe Pane program who used to work for this company", "DO NOT SIGN UP", "Dont sign up.", "Beware of these people - do not hand over your money!", "Steer clear: ponsi scheme cult".
The aggregated data is based on reviews and questionnaires provided by PissedConsumer.com users.
The Coaching Institute has 1.3 star rating based on 35 customer reviews. Consumers are mostly dissatisfied.
- Rating Distribution
Pros: Are great at sales and marketing, Unscrupulous tactics, Manipulated.
Cons: Lack of credible qualifications, Money grabbing, Upselling.Recent recommendations regarding this business are as follows: "Joe Pane program who used to work for this company", "DO NOT SIGN UP", "Dont sign up.", "Beware of these people - do not hand over your money!", "Steer clear: ponsi scheme cult".
Most users ask The Coaching Institute for the refund as a solution to their issues.
Consumers are not pleased with Billing Practices and Reliability. The price level of this organization is high according to consumer reviews.
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Verified Reviewer | Melbourne, VictoriaI need people to save their hard earned money and walk away !!
- Learning about business tactics
- Everything else
Preferred solution: Full refund
User's recommendation: Joe Pane program who used to work for this company
Very negative experience
When you are feeling alone, this company are all encompassing as they reel you in with nlp marketing strategies and promises. From the start I told them I was broke, couldnt make mortgage, on a disability pension, before I knew I was in deep.
I kept telling them im broke, they promised i would have clients within 3 months hang in there.
that didnt happen i said i hadnt touched much of the course as it not right i cant pay, they kept delaying payment and telling me i can do this, before i knew it i was well out of withdraw time, they then started taking 175 a week, this was almost half my pension. I havent touched the course for 7 months, i am now homeless, sick and distressed, these guys are strategic clever, and get real nasty when you dont comply.
i told them it was my food money, they ignored me and kept doing it.
I dont want anything to do with them
what company in their right mind tangles vulnerable people with no money up into 25k courses gives them the whole 3 yrs worth of material when they can't pay, I told them its to much, overwhelming I dont want it,
I have talked to so many others going through the same yet they tell you that you are an isolated incident making you feel at fault
TCI's service not congruent with their teaching
TCI over promises and under delivers! Follow up calls and cards with chocolates enclosed are frequently delivered during the initial sign up period. This then stops quite abruptly.
Much of the course content is plagiarised. Complete tests can be found freely on the internet.
Backend products (sold at in-house training) are horrifically over-priced. A complete set of products from the world's no 1 performance coach can be purchased for less than the cost of 1 of TCI's products.
Communication between the so called 'WOW' team and the accounts department appears to not exist - you can talk to a member of the WOW team one day and two days letter receive notification from the accounts department that you have not contacted them.
Their Facebook sight is strictly monitored and any derogative comments are hastily removed.
I undertook this course at the same time as studying an on-line coaching program. The online program, which was less than a third of the cost of TCI's program, was much more comprehensive, offered more support and had none of the backend sales included.
I urge anyone interested in becoming a life coach to look beyond TCI for training.
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Verified Reviewer | Melbourne, VictoriaNO STAR RATING
Preferred solution: Full refund
User's recommendation: DO NOT SIGN UP
I did the certificate. I was at the time looking for something to fulfill me. A lot of very skilled up selling from the start. They did not like to be questioned on anything and put you down if you dd
User's recommendation: Dont sign up.
Previous member
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Verified ReviewerBeware of these people - trying to get a refund is exhausting and demeaning.
- Are great at sales and marketing
- Run around and hand-offs with communication for months
- Will not honour refund policy
- Lack of integrity
Preferred solution: Full refund
User's recommendation: Beware of these people - do not hand over your money!
Beware
I worked behind the scenes as a technician a few years ago , witnessed there call centre manipulating customers anyway they could to squeeze money out of the client , you name it laying down guilt trips , asking clients to to borrow from there parents , these are very cunning people who know how to pull your strings , avoid at all cost! They target the vulnerable , I noted they even had a white board with $$$$$$$ targeted sales More more , these people are in it to milk you all they can , a classic conversation I heard was a client telling the consultant they were not interested in the next level of there brain wash session , the sales consultant replied how disapointed they were and had spent so much of there valuable time on them , yukkkkkkkkkk!
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Verified ReviewerRipped off , money stolen
I attended a hyped up presentation. I was persuaded by an over zealous sales person who offered me a free trial of a product.
The product was never delivered .
There was no invoice , no confirmation, email , no link to where it could be accessed. In fact zero communication. 4 weeks later I am being billed $155 with out authority from me. Not having reviewed or trialled the product.
I am $800 in debt and rising .
TCI strategy is to keep me on hold or transfer me to another section . E.g. Admin to wow team , wow team to accounts . The issue is avoided and not resolved.
I have no access to the free trial thats cost me $800 so far. No resolution.
They dont invoice properly, dont receipt properly. No onboarding process .
No Normal business practices happen at TCI.
Feels like scam . Service Delivery is poor.
- Unscrupulous tactics
- Manipulated
- Over promise and under deliver
- Traps and tricks
- Upselling
Preferred solution: Full refund
User's recommendation: Don’t go for anything free . Beware of salesmen
Long overdue
User's recommendation: Steer clear: ponsi scheme cult
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Verified ReviewerNon-communication, Rediculously high fees, no fee disclosure
Currently, fighting this company through Consumer Affairs because of their Breach of Duty of Care. Fees are ridiculous, they take advantage of vulnerable people and all they do is try and dig up your fears.
If youve gotten over your fears, why did it up again.
Total brainwashing scam. If anyone else has gone through Consumer Affairs with this mob, Id love to hear about it.
- Are great at sales and marketing
- Unscrupulous tactics
- Manipulated
- Upselling
- No communication
- Unreasonable fees
Preferred solution: Price reduction
User's recommendation: If you want to be a coach, there are better more honest companies to look at. Don’t join this one.
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Verified ReviewerPositive Feedback
- Free services material
- Good service
- Services all good
- I am unable to attend tci grounds
Preferred solution: My testimonial for the company I believe in. Is Sharon’s and Matt Lavar who I connected with and All years pain,suffering (60 yrs April) All I went through no one was able to help.yet Today I am here and ALIVE I Owe TCI. I am very Grateful thank you.
User's recommendation: It works if You Want it too. All about you and how you handle and deal.
Unethical behaviour
Misleading and manipulative sales of education
User's recommendation: Do not believe their promises of a high income earning business. The successful coaches they show in the videos are fake
Manipulation all the way through
The school mainly sucks in the vulnerable people who are looking to help themselves, people who are easily manipulated and brainwashed. The school revolves around worshiping the founder of TCI and whatever she says becomes the part of the studies at TCI.
Anyone who may speak negatively about TCI is ridiculed and ostracized in the community. All the gossip and the opinions students expressed about TCI and the trainers go straight to the team.
Anything that does not fit in the frame of SP thinking is negated and ridiculed.
The fact is that the main goal for this school is to make profit at any cost possible.
Life coaching is a great discipline but the way it is delivered at TCI is manipulative, disrespectful and dehumanizing.
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Resolved: To avoid others getting being conned.
No resolution was necessary - I pulled out first..
The presenter was very amateurish and said there were 50 participants.
She got people to put their names in the chat box. I think there were about 10, 2 of those were current students and another 2 or 3 were staff members.
We were encouraged to ask questions however the response to my question about how the supervised hours work when we are all remote got brushed aside.
The presenter didn't give any information of substance about the course content and I trusted my gut and pulled out feeling grateful that I had only wasted a couple of hours of my life and not a chunk of my income.
As others have said, there are other options.
- Great marketing and website
- Prompt response to initial enquiries
- Over promise and under deliver
Preferred solution: none - just want others to know they are dodgy as.
User's recommendation: Do your due diligence before you commit. There are other options.
About
The Coaching Institute is a school of coaching based in Australia and founded in 2005. It is intended to achieve goals in the coach career and personal development. The Coaching Institute gives possibility to take career based upon a remote training as well as a stationary training. The school has its own online coaching portal where learning plans, assessment schedule and events calendar are presented. The educational establishment provides different kinds of coaching, methodologies and certified programs. The Coaching Institute has its own support network and a huge Facebook group community. It teaches students, coaches and public members all over the world. The school has assisted over 4000 people.
The Coaching Institute is ranked 312 out of 1589 in Education category
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Where did you do your other training?
I encourage all of you to leave google reviews for TCI (on TCI google ratings). Then others too will get this information and would hopefully not fall into their trap and suffer.
Thank you!! I'm going through a rough patch at the moment and in a vulnerable state, then received one of their persistent emails.
Curious - I thought I'd look deeper into reviews on them and it turns out they're exactly what I assumed.
I think it's absolutely disgusting and disturbing that false organisations like this are allowed to practice. @@@
Thank you. Saved me
We need do something to stop this avoid more people become victims. I notice TCI has been using this scam and brain washing for many years to rip off money.
I admit I didn’t do lots of research before I enroll. Not many people have cool head to see clear of their cult character.
It is hopeless to hear this company would revenge on previous students with influence on government and other big company. The company is a shame and disgrace of Australia educational system.
We need organize all the student here to take an action. This company is totally against ethics .
I agree, what do you propose?
Total scam. One of the brain washed recruits approached me for a three days course brainwash to get my money.
He explained the brain wash methodology to get new recruits. They operate as a cult and scam.
I agree with you TCI over promises and under delivers and much of their course content is plagiarised.
SP has Trade Marked her critical thinking model and coaches have to credit TCI if they have done her Metta Dynamics training AKA NLP with SPs twist on it.
SPs critical thinking model is a combination of other NLP models, what SP has done is put them all under one umbrella and called the Critical thinking or ESIP
I heard one of her Mastermind group say she's out of control and has some big issues especially around money
Please, please, please everyone that’s upset, contact Annie or Max, we have the Media onside and I need everyone’s stories, I’m not TCI, be anonymous if need be. All confidential. Spread the word and pass on my email....kydalla@***.com.au