Course description
Our exciting new Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) Level 5 Certificate - Effective Coaching and Mentoring Accelerator Programme is highly engaging and will develop your coaching skills and abilities as a confident, well-practised coach. It is designed for leaders who would like to coach and mentor their teams more as part of your day-to-day role, and it is also a very relevant course that will support you if you are planning to move into a development role in your organisation, or start a career as a freelance coach and mentor.
This programme will deepen your understanding of coaching and mentoring, ensuring that you are properly equipped with the skills, knowledge, mindset, and ethical understanding required for developing a coaching and mentoring culture within your organisation.
Participants will be guided through the extensive programme by our highly experienced course leader who will support you through your qualification and introduce you to key models, theories, tools and techniques whilst equipping you with the skills to overcome barriers and demonstrate the impact of your coaching and mentoring practice.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
This programme is ideal if you are a manager with significant responsibility for coaching and mentoring as part of your day-to-day role. It will also support you if you are planning to move into a development role in your organisation, or start a career as a freelance coach and mentor.
Is this course right for you?
- Gain the skills and mindset to act effectively as a coach or mentor
- Learn how to manage the coaching or mentoring process within an organisational context
- Know how to manage the coaching or mentoring process within an organisational context
Outcome / Qualification etc.
On completion of this programme delegates will:
- Have the skills and mindset to act effectively as a coach or mentor
- Have a critical understanding of the role and responsibilities of the workplace coach and mentor
- Know how to manage the coaching or mentoring process within an organisational context
- Deepen their understanding of how organisational context can affect coaching or mentoring
- Plan, deliver and review their own coaching and mentoring
By attending this course, you will gain invaluable insights from industry experts in to new ways of working, innovative concepts and the latest theories that can be applied instantly on returning to your own organisation.
Training Course Content
Session 1
Skills and Attributes of a Safe and Effective Coach
Key themes include:
- ILM Introduction and welcome to the qualification
- Understanding Coaching & Mentoring
- Questioning skills
- Key models, tools & techniques
- Starting Coaching or Mentoring conversation well
- Contracting for the relationship
- Contracting for the session
- Managing confidentiality
- Your coaching mindset
Session 2
Key Models, Tools and Skills
Key themes include:
- Personality (Big 5 / Five Factor Model) – The psychology of individual differences
- Ethical dilemmas in Coaching & Mentoring
- Listening skills
- Developing rapport & trust
- Working with metaphors - Clean Language
- Reflective Practice
Session 3
Exploring Frameworks and Responsibilities
Key themes include:
- Key Mentoring frameworks
- Responsibilities of Coaches & Mentors
- Key competency frameworks (ICF/EMCC/AC)
- Giving time and space to think
- Your relationship with uncomfortable silence
Session 4
Benefits of Coaching for You and Your Organisation
Key themes include:
- The business case for coaching & mentoring
- The benefits to individuals & organisations
- Overcoming barriers to Coaching & Mentoring
- Measuring impact, evaluation & ROI
- Solution Focused Coaching
Session 5
Coaching and Mentoring in Practice
Key themes include:
- Content Free Coaching
- The role of coaching supervision + supervision practice
- Coaching and Mentoring Feedback and Self-Evaluation
- Producing a development plan
- Assignment overview & next steps
All days include significant time for practice, so do come prepared to coach and be coached.
Course delivery details
Your Training Options:
Virtual Classroom
We strive to create a positive and lasting impact through the delivery of our courses, which is why all our sessions are structured around taught theory, interactivity and shared experiences from the real world. Our online training courses are designed to create the optimum learning experience for the virtual environment. Our training is highly interactive; our tutors make regular use of whiteboard, annotate, polls and other types of interactive software to enhance the learning experience.
In House Team Training
Our in-house service delivers tailored training solutions to assist businesses in achieving their goals. Unlike our open courses, our in-house offering provides completely customisable content that is built with your guidance to facilitate anything from large transformational projects to individual learner journeys.
Our dedicated bespoke account management team will work with you to ensure that the solution you and your business choose allows for the optimal learning experience.
Your In-House Training Options
- Off-the-shelf, existing programmes delivered privately for you and your team
- Part-tailored solutions using various elements of our existing programmes to create a unique programme aligned to your organisational needs
- Bespoke built programmes, created and designed entirely to meet your specific requirements and customised to your business’ goals
Why choose In Professional Development
Delivered training to over 10,000 organisations
92% of delegates rate our courses as 5 star
Created over 2,500 CMI registrations
Reviews
Average rating 5
This course was well planned, well delivered and the content gave a solid foundation for the coaching and mentoring skills needed to be effective when putting them into practice...
I thought this was really excellent training and delivered in a really engaging way. Good mix of theory & practice, as well as free discussion away from the syllabus which was a...
Expenses
- Virtual Classroom: £2,100 +VAT
- In-House Training: Price on Enquiry
Continuing Studies
ILM Level 5 Certificate in Effective Coaching and Mentoring
Following completion of the Effective Coaching and Mentoring Accelerator Programme, you can go on to further study by opting to complete the ILM Level 5 Certificate in Effective Coaching and Mentoring.
- Qualification is ideal for managers and those with significant responsibility for effective coaching and mentoring as part of their daily role within an organisational context or individuals who wish to move into a development role or start a career as a freelance coach or mentor.
- Focus on work-based learning with the aim of providing learners with the required knowledge, skills and understanding in order to effectively coach or mentor others within an organisational context.
- Learners will be required to complete a 4,000-5,500 word written report, a portfolio and reflective journal along. Learners will also undertake 18 hours of practical coaching practice.
- Dedicated support from the Quality Assurance Team here at In Professional Development plus two additional follow-up tutorials*, following the classroom-phase, to offer guidance and support on any aspect of coaching practice or assignment development.
- Free 12-month student membership for the Institute of Management that will give learners access to a wealth of digital resources and a network of like-minded leaders and managers.
- On successful completion learners will be receive a certificate and downloadable digital credentials from ILM.
- Provides learners with the ideal stepping-stone onto further ILM qualifications.
*Please note that attendance of at least two support tutorials is compulsory. These are arranged every month so you will have the flexibility to attend dates that suit you.
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Thank you to In Professional Development for an engaging and insightful five day programme ILM 5 Effective Coaching and Mentoring. A great balance of theory and practice and tes...