EMCC Accreditation for Coaches

Executive Coaching Certificate

Our flagship, 7-month coach accreditation programme

Two Formats:

EMCC Level 5 Certificate in Executive Coaching (Includes Exam): OTS10584

What is Coaching?

Coaching is about creating a reflective space for someone to grow, solve problems, and improve their performance through guided conversations and self-discovery.

David Clutterbuck

Programme Purpose

The aim of the programme is for you to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to coach effectively in any context. 

Successful completion leads to accreditation at Practitioner level, awarded by EMCC, or AC (Fastrack Application).

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Target Audience

The only criteria for attendance is that you have held a management position for at least five years.

You do not need to have prior training or accreditation as a coach to attend this programme.

Reasons people attend include

  • To coach formally within your organisation
  • To develop leader as coach skills
  • To upskill, having trained as a coach in the past

Approach

This programme was created in 2020 in response to the shift to online working. Since then it has proven to be extremely popular.

What differentiates this programme?

  • It is renowned for its rigour. Whereas many other coach training programmes focus more on written assignments, our focus is predominantly on practice and reflection.
  • Another differentiator is the focus on psychological processes of relating. The course philosophy is ‘the relational approach‘. A unique personal style is encouraged.
  • The quality of the feedback learners receive on submitted recordings of coaching practice is a programme USP. This ensures a truly transformational journey.

The Course at a Glance

Initial Brief

1:1 conversation with course faculty

12 Workshops

12 x live training sessions

Practice

Six clients. Thirty practice hours 

Feedback

Expert faculty feedback

Supervision

Ongoing support available

Journal

Interactive reflective journal

Discussion

Online community discussion forum.

Final Faculty 1:1

Professional Dialogue with faculty

Download the course prospectus

A 12 session programme

12 x 3-hour live, interactive learning sessions over a 7-month period.

Session

1

Programme Launch

Welcoming everyone to the programme. Personal introductions. Familiarisation with learning platform. Discussing a team contract.

Session

2

Introduction to Coaching

Ensuring a common understanding of coaching, and how it differs from mentoring and other kinds of intervention.

Session

3

Asking Powerful Questions

We look at the skills associated with asking the best questions. This also involves gaining a deeper understanding of the principles of coaching.

Session

4

Structuring the Session

Every good coach develops a unique style. We start by introducing some of the most effective coaching models and support you to develop your own.

Session

5

Advanced Listening Skills

Listening skills lie at the very heart of high-quality coaching. We introduce you to techniques for listening at a deep level based on Humanistic practice.

Session

6

Coaching in the Moment

Our aim on this programme is to instil a coaching mindset. This module focuses on exactly that – in order to reinforce a coaching style of leadership.

Recorded Session Exercise

This activity involves receiving feedback on a recording of your coaching. You will collect this from a range of sources, the client, a peer and faculty.

Session

7

Positive Psychology

Focusing on strengths, accessing intrinsic motivation, building strategies of hope, cultivating positive emotions and other important coaching principles.

Session

8

Constructive Challenge

The coaching relationship involves both support and challenge. We introduce a relational approach to using confrontative interventions.

Session

9

Interpersonal Dynamics

We introduce the principles of Transactional Analysis for coaches, sharing a ‘theory of relating’ that will empower your practice.

Session

10

Organisational Awareness

Introducing a Systems Thinking approach and applying it to an organisational development lens. Exploring the meaning of Complex Dynamic Living Systems.

Session

11

Contracting

This module looks at setting up and closing down the relationship; including multi- stakeholder, psychological, formal and informal contracting, & ‘managing endings’.

Session

12

Practicing Professionally

Finally, we consider how best to maintain a professional practice. We cover CPD, supervision, reflective practice, ethics, record keeping and more.

Recorded Session Exercise

This time you will submit a recording to faculty only. We use this to support our final assessment of your progress and accomplishment.

Accreditation

This programme has a dual accreditation with both EMCC (European Mentoring and Coaching Council) and AC (the Association for Coaching). 

Graduates who wish to be accredited with EMCC will automatically gain that accreditation. Those who wish to be accredited with AC will have access to an accelerated route to accreditation.

Whether you choose EMCC or AC as your professional body, it will be necessary for you to join your preferred organisation in order to obtain accreditation with them. 

Online Learning Platform

We use a very user-friendly online learning platform which acts as a secure base for all the work that we do over the 7-month period.

All the handouts contained within the programme will be available here, along with homework assignments and space for community discussion.

The platform acts as a container for the learning journey undertaken by participants. Progress is indicated visually, and overdue tasks are highlighted. 

Each module has a Community Discussion area where participants will share resources and reflections. Sessions are also followed up with a fun quiz.

Online Learning Platform
I enjoyed the programme and the requirement for me to invest time into the learning, as well as the experiential focus on coaching in practice. My coaching confidence has increased, and the course has been a hugely positive experience. I found a highly committed cohort who invested in each other throughout. The faculty were insightful, responsive, and professional, meaning every session felt like a good investment of time. Thank you!
Adam CaldwellLearning Director
Whether you are aspiring to be a professional coach; to coach within your working or home life; or just looking to pick up some great life skills, this programme is one to explore. It provides a great balance of theory, practice and discussion; enables safe connections with other like-minded individuals; and is broken into logical sections that can be easily accessed. Faculty were outstanding: true experts in their field. They made the learning accessible and administration easy. Having had the fortune to participate in several coaching courses before, I can safely say none have come close to this, either in delivery or content.
Ian MooreLieutenant Colonal, Royal Engineers
Tom's course came highly recommended to me from some very experienced professionals in high education and I can see why. The programme is compact, covers all of the essential elements in an easily digestible style, but it gives you plenty of chance to practice, build a support network around you for the future and the right platform to set up as a coach. Thank you to the whole team!
Matthew ConisbeeProgramme Director, Said Business School
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