Performance Coach Training

Performance Coach Training for Leadership

A joint venture with Sir John Whitmore's Performance Consultants International

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Accreditation with Performance Coach Training Ltd

For our workplace courses we can design accreditation to suit your requirements.

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Please contact us to discuss your requirements .

The Open Executive Performance Coach Training Course:

  • is Recognised by the ILM (Institute of Leadership & Management)
  • is Recognised by the Association for Coaching
  • puts you on the pathway to the University accredited MSc in Coaching & Development delivered in partnership by Performance Consultants Ltd, The Performance Coach and Portsmouth University Business School
  • draws from the work of Sir John Whitmore and Carol Wilson
  • gives you the opportunity to apply for Sir John Whitmore’s Coaching for Performance Accreditation and become a Coaching for Performance Accredited Coach. John’s seminal book of the same name has set the standard for coaching principles for the last 15 years and is well known in the corporate world among HR and other executives. The industry is currently unregulated everywhere in the world, so accreditation linked to this best-selling book, which has been translated into 19 languages, is a passport to excellence internationally

Accreditation on our Open course

The Institute of Leadership and Management is a government funded awarding body for general and specialist management qualifications. It is the leadership arm of City & Guilds, which awards NVQ qualifications and its awards are recognised nationally and internationally.

All of our courses are Recognised by the ILM either as Endorsed or Development training. Please note that our ILM Recognition does not confer ILM accreditation on the individual, simply that the coach has qualified in an ILM Recognised course.

  • The Endorsed pathway includes assessment. Successful participants become accredited and receive an ILM Endorsed Award Certificate. There is an additional registration charge of £99+VAT per candidate in addition to the course fees. Registered candidates are given access to the ILM’s on line Leadership Knowledge Base for 1 year from registration.
  • The Development pathway does not include formal assessment and all participants receive an ILM Development Certificate. There is an additional registration charge of £55+VAT per candidate in addition to the course fees. Registered candidates are given access to the ILM’s on line Leadership Knowledge Base for 1 year from registration.

Candidates who do not wish to pay the additional fees for ILM recognised certificates may opt to receive a Performance Coach Training Ltd Diploma confirming their status as a CfPAC (if they pass accreditation) or Certificate of Completion (if they do not undertake or pass accreditation). There is no additional charge for these documents.

Whether opting for an ILM Endorsed Certificate or a Performance Coach Training Diploma, all candidates who pass the accreditation process will be entitled to put the letters ‘CfPAC’ (Coaching for Performance Accredited Coach’ after their names, reflecting the fact that the course is based on Sir John Whitmore’s book ‘Coaching for Performance’ and approved by Sir John Whitmore.

1. ILM Development Certificate or PCT Completion Certificate requirements:

Complete all the modules on the  Coaching Skills for Leadership Open Executive Coaching course, including the practice sessions in between. Missed modules can be made up at extra cost.

2. ILM Endorsed Certificate or PCT Accreditation Diploma requirements:

  • Complete the Coaching Skills for Leadership Open Executive Coaching course
  • Pass an assessment by delivering a session to another participant on Day 5 of the course, observed by a PCT trainer.
  • Produce a professional liability insurance certificate (or confirmation from your organisation that you are covered if you plan to work only as an internal executive coach).
  • Give details of regular Coach Mentoring/Supervision plus a reference from your Coach Mentor/Supervisor (this may be another participant from the course)
  • Provide confirmation from a coachee (which may be a participant form the course) that you have completed 4 sessions of at least 20 minutes each in length
  • Produce a written case history of a coaching session, or a coaching series, or an example of how you have used the skills in your workplace. Include details of which tools you used. To protect confidentiality, do not disclose names but you must ask the permission of anyone else involved in the case history (800 - 1000 words).
  • Provide written confirmation from your coach (which may be another course participant or an accredited coach who has not trained with PCT) that you have completed 4 sessions as a coachee, each at least 20 minutes in length. If your coach is not from PCT, you must include details of their coaching qualifications, which must be a minimum level of accreditation with a coaching body or coach training organisation.
  • Write 800 - 1000 words about your coaching philosophy including what techniques you use.


View PDF details of the MSc.

3. The University accredited MSc in Coaching & Development entry requirements:

  • Produce your ILM Endorsed Certificate or PCT Accreditation Diploma.
  • Either accreditation counts as Accreditation of Prior Learning on page 5 of the PDF enabling you to skip that process, the APL fee, and some of the course work and fees in year 1.