Program: Executive coaching for managers

Vision and goals of the program

The Executive Coaching Program aims to train managers to develop their coaching skills in order to enhance the performance of their teams, to develop coaching activities within corporations as internal coaches or act as external coaches. In order to be admitted in the program, participants should have experience in managing teams.

After completing the program, participants:

• Will acquire practical and theoretical knowledge about coaching
• Will have expanded opportunities to develop skills under the guidance of faculty.
• Will understand how to apply coaching in a corporate environment
• Will asume ICF ethical standards
• Will have ICF’s basic coaching skill and know how to use them in a coaching process.
• Will develop leader coach skills

This program is accredited with 64 hours ACSTH

7th Cohort, Strathmore University, Nairobi, Kenya, November 2021 – January 2022

This module will introduce the basics of coaching and learn participants on how to build a trustful relationship with the client.

In this module, participants will receive individual coaching supervision and the first of the three 1 hour coaching sessions that they will receive during the program.

Concepts to be developed:

• Introduction to coaching
• Introduction to ICF’s coaching concept and philosophy
• What is and what is not coaching
• Types of coaching
• Introduction to professional coaching kils
• Powerful questions
• Valus and limiting beliefs
• Levels of listening
• Self knowledge

In this remote module, participants will have to go through some material and develop their coaching practice, doing at least 3 sessions with a client.

They should record a session with a client and select 20 minutes of it to have a 1 hour supervision with a certified supervisor.

Participants will also receive the second individual 1 hour coaching session to deepen in their coaching practice.

In this module we shall concentrate on how use the different skills and combine them in a coaching process. We shall have emphasis on the “action part of coaching”, developing and accountable action plan and following it.

Participants will receive individual coaching supervision and the last of the two individual coaching sessions included in program.

Concepts to be developed:

• Coaching skills: Coaching presence, use of language: direct communication, clarify, intuition, giving recognition, challenging, the use of paraphrase and metaphors.
• Finding powerful perspectives
• Facilitating learning: models and frameworks
• Developing a coaching culture
• The Leader Coach
• Feed back y feed forward
• Managing progress & accountability

Use of selected videotaped participants’ coaching exercises as a base to discuss coaching skills.

There will be practical exercises in every module

Training hours

The program has  total of 60  training hours and each participant will receive 2 hours of individual coaching plus 5 individual supervision, including 1 hour supervising on a real coaching coaching session previously recorded.

Participants will be requested to allocated study time to complete exams at the end of each module.

Coaching philosophy, model and approach

The program is based in a multi-sytem methodology in which we combine classroom teaching, individual and group exercises.

The coaching approach used in the program is based on the core competencies of ICF competencies with contributions inspired by the co-active model developed by CTI, in the ORSC organization and systems coaching  and the Feedback & Feedforward model developed by John Whitmore.

Training model

• Classroom training: Co-leaders presentations, group dynamics, coaching demonstrations, coaching and peer coaching exercises, role-plays, video shoots and group feed back of selected fragments, group discussions and feedback from facilitators. Individual Coaching Sessions
• 360 evaluation to all participants and group and individual return
• Remote module: individual coaching sessions and supervision of recorded coaching sessions with real clients.
• Individual study: Manual of the program, recommended articles, online support from facilitators.
• Assessments: written exam at the end of the first and third module.
• Language of program and materials: English
• Program content and materials developed by esTalento

Faculty

Patricia Ferrando: Philologist from the University of Navarra, MBA from IESE, Professional Certified Coach (PCC) by ICF Professional Coach and Co-Active Coaching (CPCC) by CTI. She also is Licensed Practitioner of the Science of Happiness at Work. Patricia has an extended experience as an executive coach with over 2,000 hours of practice and solid experience in training and energizing groups.

Marta Salgado: Graduate in Law from the Complutense University in Madrid as well as a postgraduate degree in Business Administration from the CEOE in Madrid.  She is certified by the International Coach Federation (ICF) as Professional Certified Coach (PCC), by the Coaches Training Institute (CTI) as Certified Co-Active Coach and by the Centre for Right Relationship Systems as Systems and Organizational Coach. Marta has an extended experience as an executive coach with over 1,700 hours of practice and practice and solid experience in training and energizing groups

Tuition fees per participant: 4.000€

These fees include participation in the program, didactic materials, coffee breaks and meals.

Special fees for groups