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Core Coaching and Mentoring Skills — EMCC EQA accredited programme

A practical nine-session foundation for individuals to develop core coaching and mentoring skills. You will learn practical skills including creating reflective space, contracting, various models, tools and techniques and time for developing coaching and mentoring skills through practice and reflection.

Ideal for managers who wish to coach their teams, or individuals who wish to acquire a foundation level knowledge of coaching and mentoring to use within their organisations or across organisations.

An EMCC Foundation level programme delivered by skilled practitioners

As well as being academically qualified, your course leader is an experienced practitioner in coaching and mentoring. This means that you will benefit from their real world current experiences when you bring your actual situations into the programme.

“This coaching experience has been transformative, enabling me to grow as a leader and significantly enhancing the impact of our programs. The insights gained have not only improved my own effectiveness but have also fostered a culture of excellence and resilience within the team and even family.”

Programs Director, 2024 EQA participant

Core Coaching and Mentoring skills plus EMCC Foundation benefits

Programme Content

Your commitment is 30-hours of study, across nine 90-minute webinars totalling 13.5 hours. Plus nine 1-hour practice sessions, each with assessed reflection notes.

Webinar One

What do you want to get out of the programme?
What are coaching and mentoring?
The role of reflection in C&M
Listening Skills with practice

Webinar Two

Using questions
Using Process Models, with practice

Webinar Three

Building a safe space, developing trust and psychological safety
Contracting – creating an agreement
EMCC Global Code of Ethics
C&M practice

Webinar Four

Adapting your C&M to the context and adjusting your approach (to cover performance coaching, coaching as a line manager and technical skills mentoring)
Using a Solutions Focussed Approach with practice

Webinar Five

Understanding motivation, goal focus and performance as a coach/mentor
Building self-awareness in your mentee/coachee and identifying blind spots
Providing constructive feedback
C&M practice

Webinar Six

How to help identify development opportunities
Supporting as a Coach or Mentor to develop a Growth Mindset
C&M practice

Webinar Seven

Using challenge in C&M
Being aware of and reducing bias
Helping individuals to speak up and speaking truth to power
C&M practice

Webinar Eight

Understanding the Grief Cycle and commitment to change
Considering Bridges’ Model of Transition and tools and techniques to use as a coach/mentor in each stage
C&M practice

Webinar Nine

C&M to develop better mental health
C&M in burn out situations
Developing resilience through C&M
Supervision
Next steps as a coach and mentor to create a personal statement

Programme delivery

Join an open programme of like-minded individuals, or let us know if you'd like to run a closed programme within your organisation.

When delivered virtually, webinars every 2 weeks work well, allowing time for individuals to practice. However, if your organisation prefers a more intensive in-house approach, face-to-face sessions over 2-3 days is an effective option.

PGC for leaders

For more in-depth learning, a postgraduate certificate in coaching and mentoring for leadership in organisations.

Bespoke training

Choose any coaching and mentoring topic for an interactive webinar or 1-2-1 training session.

EMCC EQA Quality award - Foundation

Programme Structure

Nine x 90-minute webinars covering theory and models, skills practice, and group discussion.

Learning Activities

Presentation, skills practice, group discussion, reflection notes, and tutor feedback.

Focus of Each Session

A different aspect of coaching and mentoring is covered in each 90-minute session.

“The coaching has brought a significant shift in my approach to leadership and teamwork. I’ve become more intentional about listening deeply and asking open-ended questions, which has helped me move away from simply providing solutions to empowering team members to find their own.”

Education Program Manager, EQA participant

Programme Benefits

Delivered by a team of experts who are coaching and mentoring practioners.
Each programme is run as a ‘closed’ course tailored to the culture of the organisation the EQA is being delivered within.
There are also periodic ‘open’ programmes for all-comers to join like-minded individuals.
The programme can build internal coaching and mentoring organisational competence at any level of the organisation.

The programme creates a close-knit network of coaches and mentors who have journeyed together through the course and who can continue to draw on each other for support, peer supervision and learning.

Download the Core Coaching and Mentoring Skills brochure

See how this programme will benefit you or your organisation.

“I've become more reflective, taking time to pause and assess situations before reacting. And I’ve adopted a growth mindset, focusing on continuous learning and development rather than just outcomes.”

Monitoring, Reporting, Evaluation & Learning Manager