iWAM Certification Program
The iWAM is one of the most unique, powerful and comprehensive assessment tools available. It measures motivational and attitudinal patterns (also referred to as "metaprograms" by neurolinguistic psychologists) that have high explanatory and predictive power in performance and behavior.
The Institute for Work Attitude & Motivation
in cooperation with jobEQ, has instituted a professional certification program for the Inventory for Work Attitude and Motivation (iWAM) for North America. Certification is granted at various levels depending upon the background, experience, and goals of the candidate. The Certification is available in a 3-day training program format or in a 2 days plus 1 day pre-reading and online materials format, suiting your schedule and needs. OD consultants, coaches, HR professionals, headhunters, NLP professionals, trainers, and many others can benefit from getting certified and adding this unique tool and skillset to their repertoire. Find out how You can benefit from becoming a Certified iWAM Professional and decide for yourself! This might be your big chance. And this might be the perfect time to start something new and stand out from the competition!
Purpose of the Certification Program
The primary purpose of the iWAM Certification Program is to prepare qualified professionals to understand the nature of the test and what it measures, interpret the results of the iWAM for different individuals in different contexts, and apply the iWAM to a variety of individual, pair, team, and organization challenges.
Certification Goal & Philosophy
The overall goal of certification in the use of the iWAM is to provide qualified professionals with the level of knowledge and skill to understand and interpret the iWAM to client organizations and to assist client organizations and end-users in the proper application of the iWAM to various settings.
The Institute’s iWAM Certification Program meets all the standards of professional development and continuing education programs, yet is never viewed as sufficient to leave as it is. There is constant monitoring of the quality of the program, assessment of the impacts of the program on professionals, and solicitation of feedback about professional competencies and needs based on the field experiences of certified professionals.
Welcome to the World of the iWAM. We look forward to working with you.
Carl L. Harshman, Ph.D.
Founder and CEO
Why should you consider becoming a Certified iWAM Professional?
- Make a difference: Start impacting the things that really matter!
- Stand out from the crowd: have something unique to offer your clients!
- Be on the leading edge: Get a new tool now that others do not have!
- Manage change: Learn what to change and how to change it!
- Opportunity: Blaze a new trail in your part of the world!
- Knowledge: Learn something unique that your competitors do not know!
- Competence: Be able to do something that most professionals cannot do!
- Influence: Increase your power of influence to sell, deliver and achieve!
- Freedom/Flexibility: Manage your own assessment on your own schedule!
- Access to new clients/markets: Open new doors to new options in your work and future!
- Self-Awareness: Learn about you as you learn about it—make the most of both!
- Options: The more professional tools you have available, the more options you have!
- Challenges and problems: Help your client by knowing what problem to solve and how!
- Wealth: Put a value-added tool that will increase your margins and marketability!
"The iWAM has become an integral part of my coaching practice. It is by far and away the most useful assessment instrument on the market. It gets to the most critical aspect of human performance...a person’s motivations and attitudes."
Chuck Appleby, Ph.D.
Appleby & Associates
If you need more examples to be convinced, find out what other certified professionals say about the iWAM!
What does the Certification offer?
The iWAM Certification enables you to understand the concept of metaprograms and thei
r importance, and learn about their endless applications through the iWAM test. It also entitles you as a trained professional to:
- Administer and interpret the iWAM test and results to individuals, pairs, teams, and organizations;
- Create your custom test desktop with which to brand your iWAM tests (and to set up custom sites for your organizational clients if desired);
- Purchase iWAM test credits from the publisher through The Institute and to receive significant volume price discounts;
- Purchase subscriptions for your testing system that provide additional analysis and reporting options.
And much more....! See the full list of certification outcomes.
iWAM Certification Classifications
The Institute conducts iWAM Certification Programs as well as customized training and education programs for individuals and groups. iWAM certification is done at four levels and is renewed every three-years. (Click here for more on the renewal.)
Here are the current certification categories and descriptions of what they represent:
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(Introductory Level) |
The certified Coach or Consultant is a practicing professional who would like to have an introduction to the iWAM as an assessment tool and to its application in coaching and consulting situations, and is likely to utilize the iWAM primarily on an individual basis. Admission to the certification includes experience in coaching or consulting (at least one year) as well as corresponding professional education and/or licensing. The certification includes an orientation to the role of motivational and attitudinal patterns in human behavior, the performance model, interpretation of the iWAM scales, and applications of the iWAM to individual, dyad, and team situations. (>> More...!) |
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(Level 1) |
A certified Associate is typically someone internal to an organization who has limited background in assessment, cognitive psychology, and/or human/organization development. Often this individual is associated with the human resource or organizational development function and, because of his or her role and experience, is uniquely positioned to be a key internal resource for the administration of the iWAM system in the organization. The Certified Associate is able to schedule iWAM assessments for individuals, download and process reports, manage the assessments and reports related to a Model of Excellence, do a basic interpretation of the iWAM and give counsel to internal professionals who are using the instrument. (>> More...!) |
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A certified Professional has formal education and extensive (3 years or more) internal or external human resource, organizational development, or related field experience as a full-time professional administrator, manager, faculty member, and/or consultant. In addition, certified Professionals often have experience with and licenses to use other assessment tools. In practice, a certified Professional may be someone internal to an organization or an external consultant. The competencies at the Professional level include the use of the iWAM with teams, leadership, and organization applications. (>> More...!) |
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(Level 3) |
Being certified at the Partner level means that the individual meets all the criteria of a certified Professional plus the following: (1) has extensive (five years or more) experience in assessment and interpretation; (2) holds an advanced degree (masters or doctorate) from an accredited institution of higher education; and (3) has successfully completed the LAB Profile Consultant/Trainer Certification or has equivalent certification (e.g. licensed as an NLP Trainer). In addition to the requirements of the three-day certification program, to achieve Partner status the individual will need to demonstrate a good track record in the use of the iWAM with individual, group, and/or organizational clients. The evaluation Partner status includes a signed Partner Agreement with The Institute and jobEQ and marketing a specified level of business over a period of time. (>> More...!) |
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Effective September 1, 2010, there may be new standards for certification issued by jobEQ, the publisher of the test. Any changes in standards will be posted immediately on this web site. |