Coaching Development, Diploma in Business and Executive Coaching (ACTP)

We are delighted to announce the launch of our new programme, the Diploma in Business and Executive Coaching, starting in September 2011. Based on our existing highly respected Diploma in Coaching training (Part I Professional Coaching Skills and Part II Developing Mastery), this new programme is specifically oriented towards coaching within the corporate world. It is designed to develop and hone transformative coaching attitudes and skills for senior leaders and managers, and for internal and external coaches, at ICF PCC (Professional Certified Coach) level.

Business conditions are constantly changing and businesses that are the most able to adapt will survive, and survive well. Research strongly suggests that coaching helps organisations to evolve and thrive through developing their best people into creative, flexible and authentic leaders and extra-ordinary thinkers. Such development rapidly takes them beyond technical skills, sustaining business values as well as targets, minimising training budgets, and maximising job satisfaction and performance.

Coaching Development has created a dynamic programme to support organisations through these demanding times. The Diploma in Business and Executive Coaching will help to develop leaders, managers and coaches into the forces for positive individual and organisational change that are increasingly needed in the 2010s.

Based on our renowned in-depth coach training, this new Diploma is tailored to the corporate world through business-specific additional content, 1-1 high-level executive coaching and supervision of post-training corporate practice. It is delivered within a highly interactive and dynamic group of trainers, delegates and skilled coach mentors.

Key Elements

1	In-Depth Skills Training Sept 2011 – Jan 2012	Coaching Development’s in-depth, 20-day, ICF accredited Professional Coaching Skills training programme – tailored to develop the individual as a coach.
2	Corporate Applications Feb 2012	5-day business-specific training module – the integration of coaching into the corporate environment.
3	Client Work Mar - Jul 2012	Active coaching practice with ‘real’ corporate clients – integrated within the programme and supported by coach supervision.
4	Executive Coaching Mar – Jul 2012	10 hours of 1-1 coaching with a senior executive coach.
5	Practice & Supervision Mar – Jul 2012	Group supervision, peer practice, formal observation and feedback – 1 day per month of intensive CPD for 5 months following completion of the training modules.
6	Assessment Jul – Sept 2012	Written and oral examination at ICF’s Professional Certified Coach (PCC) level.
7	Professional Network Ongoing	Life-time access to Coaching Development’s professional peer network.

Course content, method and approach

Course content – Developing the Individual as a Coach
The intensive experiential training of the first 6 months is an original programme which teaches best professional theory and practice. The programme’s primary focus is to develop and refine our inherent interpersonal skills, such as perceptive, empathic listening and questioning, and our ability to engage with others to create real connection, clarity, choice, and forward action.

We build on this foundation with a thorough training in the co-active coaching model, together with selected processes from Neuro-Linguistic Programming. We think it is valuable to have a psychological model to aid our thinking and have chosen Transactional Analysis, widely used in business and personal development for this purpose. Throughout the programme the International Coach Federation (ICF) Core Competencies provide the criteria and framework for evaluating participants’ growing coaching skills.

Corporate Module
(Coaching in the Corporate World – issues of successful practice)
The final training module (month 6) focuses on creating best practice for executive coaches and for corporate users of coaching.

Leading practitioners present a series of interactive sessions focussing on the successful application and integration of professional coaching within organisational contexts.

Sessions already confirmed include:

The Organisational Development perspective (Anne McMurray)
GlaxoSmithKline case study (Sally Bonneywell)
BBC case study (Liz Macann)
Large-scale coaching programmes (Sharon Toye)
Coaching Teams (Sharon Toye)
Ethical complexities (Barry Goldberg)
Multi-party contracting (Hilary Cochrane & Philip Brew)

Post-training professional development
Following the intensive training of the first six months, the post-training phase of the programme provides rigorous continuing professional development during months 7 to 12. While applying and developing their coaching skills with real corporate clients, participants will meet monthly to continue and deepen their learning in a structured, challenging and rewarding environment:

Supervision to encourage and support the ongoing development of reflective, informed and ethical professional coaching practices.
Observed coaching sessions providing clean, objective, practical feedback from selected ICF qualified coaches for refining and extending coaching skills.
Personal executive coaching to support and accelerate learning.
A comprehensive practical and theoretical assessment process based on the ICF’s PCC-level examination requirements.

Approach & Methods
Our teaching style reflects a person-centred approach to adult learning. Our principal method is experiential learning: learning by doing, coupled with personal reflection and exploration. We include mini-lectures, course notes, discussion groups, experiential work in twos and threes, video input and audio recording.

Learning is facilitated by two trainers and supported by a select group of mentors. Places on this programme are limited to ensure that each student is regularly observed and receives detailed developmental feedback from the trainers as well as the mentors throughout.

Programme outcomes and qualification

What you can expect
Graduates of this programme can expect to be a significant resource to organisations wishing to embed a coaching style of leadership.

The structure of the programme gives time for each participant to integrate deep personal learning and translate it into effective ways of being and doing in their business or organisation. They will markedly develop their communication and relationship building skills, and deepen in self-awareness and authenticity. More aware of what’s really important to them self and others, they will know how to truly connect with, motivate and release the potential of individuals and teams, creating increased levels of accountability, responsibility and achievement in the people they work with.

For the organisation, they will provide authentic and mature coaching skills and they may become key role models of different and more effective ways of leading and managing.

Qualification
The Diploma in Business and Executive Coaching has been awarded Accredited Coach Training Programme (ACTP) status by the International Coach Federation (ICF), the world’s foremost independent professional coaching body.

Graduates of the programme will have met all training, mentor coaching and examination requirements to apply for an ICF credential at Associate Certified Coach (ACC) or Professional Certified Coach (PCC) level as appropriate*.

*[The level of credential applied for will also depend on the number of client coaching hours accumulated – ACC requires 100 hours and PCC 750 hours; participation in this programme includes 50 client coaching hours.]

DATES
All the training is face to face and comprises:

Professional Coaching Skills
5 x 4 day modules (Friday to Monday inclusive)
Module 1	09 - 12 September 2011
Module 2	07 - 10 October
Module 3	04 - 07 November
Module 4	02 - 05 December
Module 5	13 - 16 January 2012

Corporate Module - Coaching in the Corporate World
1 x 5 day module (Wednesday to Sunday inclusive)
Module 6	01 - 05 February

CPD - Skills Development, Practice & Supervision - Developing Mastery
5 single days all Fridays:
	02 March 2012
	13 April
	18 May
	15 June
	13 July

Assessment
Dates TBC

10 Hours of 1-1 Executive Coaching
Dates TBC

Venue
The venue is The Window, in Islington, central London, about 5-10 minutes walk from Angel tube. (There are no plans to hold this programme in Ireland in 2011.)

Cost
The cost of the Diploma in Business and Executive Coaching is £9,900 + VAT. This is a non-residential programme, therefore any costs for accommodation would be additional. The fees include the training, handouts and refreshments.

Contact Us
For more information please call us on 0845 122 7200 or email mail