Free coach and mentor Continuing Professional Development

Coach and Mentor CPDWe are overtly expanding our free Continuing Professional Development (CPD) to target both coaches and mentors. We have many coaches graduating from our PGC EMCC Senior Practitioner and EMCC Foundation level programmes. Both these programmes necessitate a certain number of CPD hours for coaches to attend, so we want to support our alumni with this need. In addition, we also have large numbers of mentors within organisational programmes, which we support.

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Transformative Postgraduate Diploma in Coaching and Mentoring

Postgraduate Diploma in Coaching and MentoringWith your previous studies and practical experience, are you rethinking your coaching identity and realising you need more substance to your coaching repertoire? This Postgraduate Diploma (PGD) will provide a deeper dive into your coaching and mentoring practice, ethics and systemic considerations, and equip you with knowledge in new areas such as team coaching, self-care and self-deception.

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Coaches and Mentors — Agents of Hope

Lis runningI’ve just been for a long run. A time when I reflect and usually come back with a long list of jobs for the team! Today’s reflection gave me something quite different, a new understanding about hope and such a strong realisation about how it is such a powerful catalyst, facilitator and change agent in many coaching and mentoring conversations. Continue reading


Accredited & certified coaching and mentoring postgraduate course

Cutting edge coachBuild your coaching skills on top of your existing specialisms, to develop your own coaching identity. This Level 7 PGCert, accredited by Leeds Beckett University, also provides fast-track award of EMCC EIA Senior Practitioner from one of the leading coaching and mentoring bodies. You will find the interactive live webinars grounded in your life and leadership experiences. Through your study, you will create your own individual coaching and mentoring approach, rather than slavishly following taught models.

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Fast track to EMCC EIA foundation accredited coach and mentor

CCMS EMCC EIA studyThis dynamic interactive virtual programme gives you an EMCC EQA Foundation qualification with just 30 hours of study. Previous graduates appreciated that nine 90-minute webinars, plus practice and assessed reflection, provided a fast-track route to becoming an EMCC EIA accredited coach! Perfect for those starting out in coaching and mentoring, or working in-house as a coach.

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The Power of Good Questions — in coaching, at work and in life

Good QuestionGood questions lead to good listening (and vice versa: good listening leads to good questions)! They build interpersonal bridges and create connections. Questions such as: ‘What moves you?’, ‘How does that make you feel?’ or ‘Would you like to tell me more?’ are usually sufficient. Yet it is more helpful to ask a disbeliever ‘What makes you doubt?’ than to give them advice, nag them or try to reassure them with ‘It’s not that bad’.

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Core coaching skills can change you as a Manager

Managers need core skills to deliverBeing a manager is tough, I’d argue it to be the toughest job in any organisation. You’re expected to deliver the strategy from above while also supporting, motivating, and developing the people in your team. In today’s working world, without core coaching skills, that squeeze can feel relentless.

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Listening. Better performance for the talker, the listener and organisation!

Listening for performance‘Listening leads to better performance — in the person who listens, in the person who is listened to and, as a consequence, in the whole organisation’, concludes listening researcher Guy Itzchakov [1]. Plus I would add: it also leads to better change processes and campaigns. So, why has listening training not long since become part of every organisational development project and campaign? Probably because people don’t think they have time for it.

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