Coaching for Organisation Consultants

What does this programme cover?
This is a highly interactive programme which combines psychological and organisational perspectives on coaching. Flexible to the needs and interests of the group, it will teach you how to engage with your clients at a profound level - dramatically increasing your impact on the organisation.

What will I learn?

• What makes people tick!
• High level coaching skills to increase your impact and effectiveness
• How to achieve great coaching through the relationship between coach and client
• How to be an insightful and creative coach rather than just a knowledgeable coach
• How to respond to and enable change.

You will also have the opportunity to gain the prestigious Ashridge consulting accredited coach qualification.

Who is it for?
You already work as a coach and you wish to broaden and deepen your coaching experiences and skills.
You are an independent consultant working with a number of client organisations, an internal consultant or an HR professional. You may also be a Senior Manager or CEO responsible for coaching people with whom you do not have a line management relationship.

How will my business benefit?
Your improved coaching skills will help the coachee/your clients to know themselves better, identify their existing strengths, develop new skills and encourage experimentation.

Programme Content

This experiential (and definitely not didactic) programme includes five modules, with an optional one day practicum to become an Ashridge accredited coach. Each module includes co-coaching with fellow participants as well as skills practice, live supervision and plenty of group feedback.

This experiential (and definitely not didactic) programme includes five modules, with an optional one day practicum to become an Ashridge accredited coach. Each module includes co-coaching with fellow participants as well as skills practice, live supervision and plenty of group feedback.

Module 1- developing coaching strategies

• The nature and purpose of coaching
• The power of inquiry
• Choosing a focus for coaching
• Building the working alliance
• Coaching interventions: expanding the repertoire.

Module 2 - psychological theories of personality: working in the relationship

• Psychological theories and models
• Raising self awareness
• Coaching as a relational process.

Module 3 - repetition and change: working with patterns

• The emergence of pattern
• Addressing repetition and 'stuckness'
• Team coaching
• Patterns in organisations.

Module 4 - creative change interventions

• Perspectives on organisational change
• Six areas of focus in the coaching context
• Creative experimentation.

Module 5 - professionalism in the coaching relationship

• Articulating your coaching proposition
• Assessing the value of coaching relationships
• Differences and diversity in coaching
• Ethics and professional practice: issues and considerations
• Ending the coaching relationship.

The accreditation process

After completing the five modules you have the option to take part in a further half day workshop followed by a one day assessment to gain the qualification of an accredited Ashridge Consulting coach.

Programme Structure

Pre programme - Members of your tutor team are available for discussion and you will be sent materials to help you prepare.

Programme - Over five two-day sessions you will experience a unique learning process. We offer models and frameworks to practice and experience rather than teaching you how to coach.

Between the modules you will be given articles to read and you can bounce ideas off your allocated 'learning buddy'.

Post programme - You have the opportunity to qualify as an Ashridge Consulting accredited coach.

You automatically become a member of the Ashridge Alumni for the current year, enabling you to keep in touch with latest thinking.

What makes this programme different?

• Your tutor team combine and integrate psychological perspectives with in-depth business knowledge, there are no known alternative courses which offer this.
• Rather than presenting you with one theory, we take an integrative approach. This means that you don't have to force the coachee to fit a particular model.
• We offer contemporary and leading-edge ways of getting organisations to understand themselves. For example, you will learn how to take a relational approach to change and strategy in organisations. In the wider area of counselling, relational is where it's at.
• You leave with the skills and confidence to make immediate improvements to your coaching and generate change.
• Access to the Virtual Learning Resource Centre
• Virtual community facility to maintain valuable networks established on the programme.
• The inspirational surroundings of Ashridge to stimulate your creativity and your ability to look at things from a different angle!