Performance Coaching for Leadership: Executive Coach Training

Trainers & Designer

All our trainers are highly experienced executive performance coaches and are chosen for their rapport skills and ability to create a safe but stimulating learning environment.

Course designer Carol Wilson draws from 25 years at corporate MD and board level including 10 years reporting directly to Sir Richard Branson, and has studied personally with the foremost thought leaders in coaching related fields, including Sir John Whitmore (pioneer of coaching), Tim Gallwey (founder of the Inner Game), John Grinder (co-founder NLP), Richard Barratt (founder of Cultural Transformation Tools), Nancy Kline (founder of The Thinking Environment) and the late David Grove (founder of Clean Language). She has collaborated with organisations all over the world to enable them to create a coaching culture and is working on a doctorate at Middlesex University. Carol is the author of "Best Practice in Performance Coaching: A Handbook for Leaders, Coaches, HR Professionals and Organizations", featuring forewords by Sir John Whitmore and Sir Richard Branson, and is contributing author to Excellence in Coaching: The Industry Guide, edited by Jonathan Passmore and The Handbook of Knowledge Based Coaching, edited by Leni Wildflower and Dianne Brennan.  She has also published over 50 coaching articles, including a monthly column in Training Journal.

Keynote speaker James Wright, MSc, is a specialist in team building and dynamic communication. He has worked in the UK and abroad training people to become outstanding communicators. In the 1980s James was a National Sales Manager in the telecommunications industry, then moved into team coaching and lecturing. Over the next twelve years he worked as Great Britain Men's Volleyball Team Coach, achieving the highest overall mark in FIVB Stage II, the highest international volleyball coaching award. Simultaneously, James was a lecturer at Leeds University, Leeds Metropolitan University and Sheffield Hallam Business School on courses including Coaching, Mentoring and Leadership, Social Psychology in Physical Education, Psychology in Physical Education, Psychological Foundations of Physical Education and Sport.

James has worked with Performance Coach Training for ten years, delivering coaching and leadership programmes to organisations all over the world and is an expert in multi-cultural groups. He is committed to the work of Amnesty International and speaks regularly in schools and colleges around the UK on its behalf. He is the author of Seven for a Secret, (Fisher King 2007) a new coaching perspective for bereaved children aged 11 to 111.

Five face to face days plus two mentoring calls

Next course: 27-29 September and 2-3 November 2012

9.30am – 5.00pm

Course Curriculum

DAYS 1 - 3:

Foundation coaching skills:

• Emotional Intelligence
• Listening
• Questioning
• Clarifying, reflecting
• Permission (boundaries & conflict)
• GROW coaching framework
• Coaching practice

Structure for one to one coaching sessions:

• Framework for Session 1, intermediary sessions and final session.
• Framework for a coaching series
• EXACT goal setting model
• Contracts, ethics & Supervision
• Practice for assessments

PRACTICE PERIOD BETWEEN TRAINING DAYS

Participants are paired up to practise their skills and give each other feedback for approximately one hour per week. This can be done face to face or by telephone. The purpose is to provide a safe place where participants can stretch their skills, take risks, make mistakes and make the process their own. This practice enables our students to progress to higher levels of competence and integrate the skills.

DAY 4: TRAINING

• Review of work in between training sessions
• Mock assessments
• Deeper skills

DAY 5: ASSESSMENTS

• Learning review
• Assessments
• Consolidation & looking ahead

Each candidate coaches another participant for 20 minutes observed by our assessor, who will award a pass or fail mark and provide verbal feedback.
For candidates coming from overseas who do not wish to fly in twice, the final two days including assessment may be completed by telephone at an extra charge of £200 + VAT. However, completing the course in person is recommended as there are great benefits in the class work within the group.

Course venue

The Queens Club, Barons Court, West London

The course is held at The Queens Club West London. Established in 1896, this members-only club is one of the premier Lawn Tennis and Racquets clubs in the world and provides a pleasant and private training environment surrounded by extensive grounds.