International Executive Coach training - Coaching skills for leaders

 A world class education to become an executive coach!

• Designed and facilitated by top international executive coaches
• The coaching skills are applicable in leadership roles at major firms, but also outside of the organization context as a professional executive coach

Results you can expect from this education

• Understand the core concepts and tools of executive coaching
• Understand the underlying scientific theories on learning and development
• Know yourself and your strengths and weaknesses much better and be able to use them in finding your professional coach-attitude
• Understand and be able to leverage your strengths as a coach
• Develop your personal coaching vision and style
• Be able to create real positive impact for your coachees; help them realize insight and impact
• Be able to provide support for change processes through individual coaching

Target group: senior leaders interested in becoming more effective coaches

• Senior leaders interested in more effectively using coaching skills in their own professional context, and potentially long term becoming professional coaches

Content at a glance

• A concentrated business coach training within 9 months with 3 workshops only and many virtual elements
• The trainers are highly experienced and successful coaches 
• Cooperation with TU Munich / Executive MBA: training and coaching of real clients together with experienced executive coaches to gain coaching and facilitation experience and contact with the real business
• You will learn a variety of modern coaching and facilitation methods, based on the latest scientific research on coaching (coaching psychology)
• The coach training has a clear orientation towards the work in a company
• It has a high proportion of practical work
• • You will learn all the coaching tools in live-demonstrations. You will try them out and exercise them under the supervision of experienced coaches. You will also get coaching experience with external coachees.
• Comprehensive coaching for the participants is part of the training
• • As a part of the program you will be repeatedly coached yourself; you will thus get supported to extend your own self-awareness and problem-solving ability.
  • This will furthermore be supported through an intensive exchange within the training group. The development of a reflection and learning atmosphere that is marked by great openness and respect is an essential strength of this training.
  • As a result, there will be feedback processes helping to clear “blind spots”, to advance the own development and to grow into the role of a coach. 

Schedule

• You will start the training with filling in an online questionnaire and having a pre program group call (a call of approx. 1 hour) with your main trainers.
• The training days consist of 3 blocks. These will be delivered in four weekends of 4 days spread out over 9 months.
• In between each training block you will have one virtual mentoring of 3 hours with your trainers and a virtual peer meeting of 2 hours. Like this you will learn to work virtually, an important asset for the executive coaching work today.
• During the full length of the coach training you will have at least one coaching clients yourself. 
• At the final 2 days of the last block of training you will have an exam process. You will coach ‘live’ a coachee with two observers present.
• For an optimal result some hours of study each month is advised.   

Please find below a video from The International Coaching Federation. This illustrates that our Academies meet the ICF's rigorous standards. We are very proud to be accredited by the ICF.