Diploma in Advanced Executive Coaching: Bermuda

Overview:
Diploma in Advanced Executive Coaching:

A challenging programme delivered over 12-15 months that will transform experienced coaches into exceptional executive coaches.

Your Experience
The programme requires substantial knowledge and experience of developing people either as a:

• business leader or senior manager
  with a coaching style
• consultant or trainer
• life or business coach

In addition you will be required to have four coach specific clients by the start of the programme, building up to six by the second module.

You will also be in tune with our core values, and while you are experienced in your field, you will be open to learning from any source rather than simply attending a course for a coach qualification.

Programme objectives

• create your own coaching model
• be explicit about your own style and approach
• have a strong ‘signature presence’
• attain the skill to work at a performance and developmental level

Programme benefits

• coach competently with leaders and executives within an organisational context.
• target the type of clients / business you work best with
• ensure you get the results you contract for
• feel confident to coach at a rational and intuitive level

Overview

Self responsibility and co-directed learning
There is no freedom without responsibility – a wonderful paradox which sums up the essence of co-directed learning.

You have the freedom to choose the optimum path of learning, but have to take considerable responsibility for negotiating and creating that reality with others.

This mirrors the trend that 21st century organisations are having to grapple with if they are to survive in the complexity of a rapidly changing world.

Personal coaching on the programme
Each participant will be a client and have the opportunity to address their real personal development issues.

You will have the same coach for the duration of the programme, who will coach you on each event and your progress.

A peer observer will take notes and give feedback both to the client and the coach.

Systemic approach
Coaching always happens in a context, so understanding the web of relationships and patterns of influence in the organisational system, will give you an insight into how to address the more confusing and complex client issues.

Large group work
In order to appreciate fully the interconnectedness of individuals within a system, we will be studying our own development as a small organisation.

We will be alternatively in our system and observing or analysing it. This is a hugely complex and often confusing process, but with skilled guidance from the tutor team, this becomes a very enriching and insightful experience.

The lessons learnt in the large group will be constantly transferred into the business coaching environment.

Programme structure

In order to create a vibrant learning community that parallels many of the dynamics of an organisational system, we have chosen a structure that draws on all our experience of best practice. This involves:

1. Four 3-day modules that are spaced 10 - 12 weeks apart to both maintain momentum, continuity and allow time for the integration of new material into working practice.
2. Peer groups which will meet physically or virtually between events to compound learning and share expertise.
3. Regular individual tutorials or small tutorial groups which will meet as necessary to fulfill development needs.
4. Shared responsibility for the output of the programme
5. A non-residential assessment day involving:
   Morning:
   Presentation of your coaching model - evaluated by self,peers & faculty.
   Afternoon:
   Demonstration of coaching practice - evaluated by self, peers and faculty.
   Submission of learning journal and theoretical basis of your practice - evaluated by faculty.  
6. A residential venue that is 'co-managed' to create an environment where we can live and work intensively and privately.

Programme modules

1. Core coaching - skills,
performance and development coaching
It is expected that you will be familiar with one or two coaching models as a starting point for building your own model. We will present a range of models that represent the range of coaching styles and practices.

The collective knowledge and experience will be harnessed to make the theory alive and practical, and highlight the inherent strengths and limitations of any model.

2. Business and leadership perspective
Depending on the group's needs we will address topics in the region of :

• leadership - vision, presence, inspiration, innovation, communication
• business acumen - strategy, corporate governance, financial management
• marketing / selling, entrepreneurial approach
• operational knowledge - specific to industry sector, technical skills, customer handling, performance measurement
• management of - teams, people, time, projects, resources

3. Psychological theory and therapeutic practices
The psychology of human development can shed great light on our motivation and self-limiting patterns of behaviour. Coaching is not therapy, however there are many overlaps, and much of the complicated coaching issues can be understood and addressed using a therapeutic theory.

A good working knowledge of these theories and practices is key to facilitating the coach, in both defining boundaries and working with the client to move beyond their 'sticking points'.

4. Skills practice
The AoEC recognises the value of experiential learning, and the importance of practising new skills in a 'safe' feedback-rich environment. About half of the programme will be devoted to practice development and supervision.

The tutor team will be constantly demonstrating their skills which participants will be critiquing, evaluating and modelling.

In client / coach/ observer triads, participants will practise the use of new skills and cognitive frameworks. Observers, clients and tutor coaches will give live feedback on performance.

5. Personal development
Through understanding yourself you are able to understand others. Being aware of and utilising your emotions and personal reactions for client interventions, is a very effective skill to master.

"The Highest goal man can achieve is the awareness of his own attitudes and ideas - knowledge of himself provides him with the means to gain intimate knowledge of the minds of others" - Goethe.

We are identifying four components to [ersonal development:

• emotional awareness
• cognitive knowledge
• behavioural skills
• transpersonal / existential awareness

These components are inextricably linked, so change in one area affects the other three.

Accreditation

EMCC Qualification
Senior Practitioner level
Equivalent to PG Certificate

ICF Qualification
ACTP (Accredited Coach Training Programme)
127 Coach Specific Training Hours (CSTH) towards the minimum 125 CSTH for PCC (Professional Certified Coach)

Association for Coaching
AC Recognised course

Middlesex University/Professional Development Foundation 
40 level 7 (formally known as Masters level) credits through Middlesex University Work Based Learning.

Overview

Entry requirements & process

To ensure that the Advanced Programme is right for you, there is a very thought provoking entry process. This uses four questionnaires with a follow-up individual tutorial that will enable you to identify your strengths, development areas and then to create a personal learning plan for the programme.

Qualification

The Diploma is awarded on passing a rigorous assessment by self, peers & tutors involving:

1. Presentation of Coaching Model,
2. Demonstration of Coaching Practice,
3. Submission of a Learning Journal. 

The programme has received ICF (International Coach Federation) Course Accreditation (ACTP) for PCC level and EMCC accreditation at Practitioner Level.

Overview

Stage 1:
Initial Selection and Application

1. Application form and CV
2. Onilne Coaching Competency Questionnaires for Self Assessment: Business & Leadership, Self Management Core Coaching and Psychological.
3. Online Learning Plan
4. Read primary text – 'Executive Coaching with Backbone Heart' by Mary Beth O’Neill

Stage 2:
In depth Personal Review and Individual Tutorial

1. Individual tutorial of 1.5 hours
2. Four Self Assessment Questionnaires review
3. Discuss draft learning journey document prepared beforehand
4. Design a Learning Plan for the programme
   

Stage 3:
Full AEC Participant

1. Contact details and learning objectives posted on participant only site
2. Start contacting fellow participants

Fees, dates and location

Our primary aim is to create a programme of the highest standard that reflects value for money.

We make a promise to get you through to graduation or refund 50% of your course fees.

The course fees are $10,500 plus residential costs and local tax.

Application Process ($395 + tax)
- a very thorough learning process in its own right:

Stage 1 Fill in on-line application form

Stage 2 Fill in and return the 4 Self-Assessment coaching competency questionnaires that are sent.

Stage 3 Individual Phone Tutorial to confirm readiness to join the programme and have guidance on creating a personal Learning Plan to guide you through the programme.

Stage 4 Orientation event with the confirmed applicants and faculty to ask questions, confirm your Learning Plan, gain additional information in preparation for Module 1.

Dates and applications

Faculty

External Team
A group of 18 participants requires 3 dedicated assistants throughout the entire course and 6 accredited assessors for the Assessment.

John Leary-Joyce
CEO

John had a successful 25-year career in Gestalt as a practitioner, teacher and trainer at Masters level with appearances on radio and television. Becoming MD of the Gestalt institute in London triggered his entrepreneurial spirit and took him into the business world.



As Founder and CEO, the AoEC is the culmination of his 30 years in the field of training and people development. The AoEC model and structure draws on his academic research and wide experience of Business Leadership, Executive Coaching and Psychotherapy. His passion is the pursuit of learning to help others to grow professionally and personally.