Coaching Fundamentals (level 1)

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Pre-approval number: 5430

This intensive program, focused on the fundamentals of individual and collective coaching, is designed for you. Cycle 1 is integrated into the "Professional Coach Training" program by International Mozaik, accredited by the International Coaching Federation (Level 2). This step also enables participants to achieve the level of professional recognition as an ACC (Accredited Certified Coach) with ICF.

Leaders in organizations, human resources and organizational development professionals, coaches, consultants, internal or external trainers? Would you like to become certified leader-coaches?

Developing coaching skills can become an essential advantage for managers and leaders who want to embody agile and transformative leadership daily in these uncertain times. Adopting a leader-coach posture allows you to position your leadership differently, think differently about your authority, role, and commitment to succeed in change with your collaborators. Bringing out your collaborators' full potential and co-creating relationships in a powerful alliance to find new answers to today's challenges are some of the new ways of being and doing within reach of today's leaders.

Through this intensive course (ICF-certified), you acquire the means to support your collaborators better and to succeed together through the current crisis and others to come.

Course configuration

• 1 half-day launch event
• 4 training modules (divided into 24 half-days of training)
• 2 scheduled practice sessions in peer subgroups (2 half-days) including 1 hour of one-on-one coaching and mentoring

Audience
Leaders in organizations, human resources and organizational development professionals, coaches, consultants, internal or external trainers.

Included

• Kick-off meeting for meet and greet and to familiarize with the virtual tool
• Peer community practice sessions
• Preparatory work including a self-assessment of your leadership skills in relation to the core competencies of an ICF coach
• 1 hour of individual coaching with a supervising coach to highlight the learnings and next steps towards the ICF accreditation process
• Wrap-up meeting aimed at consolidating what has been learned and celebrating your new leader-coach identity

Program Objectives

This 12-day training course is designed to offer a thorough training in professional coaching skills.
At the end of the training, participants will:

• Have developed the necessary mindset and skillset for effective coaching (as specified by the International Coach Federation’s core coaching competencies). The amount of the training hours meets the requirements for the Associate Certified Coach (ACC) level credential, while the competencies are taught and evaluated during the course against the Professional Certified Coach (PCC) level standards;
• Contextualise coaching within the wider field of learning and development, and leadership.
• Integrate the practical application of coaching models, tools and competencies.
• Raise your impact capacity as a leader. Develop a leader-coach’s state of mind and posture.
• Learn to establish, with your collaborators, a space-time of trust by building powerful relationships for managers and employees to support performance and development conversations.
• Tackle new challenges as a source of learning and growth for everyone.

This training course will cover the following topics, though not necessarily in the given order. Module 1 will provide a broad understanding and experience of all the key competencies to enable you to begin practising coaching with your peers immediately. Then, throughout the following modules, we will return to specific topics and explore them in greater depth. These are:

• Core coaching competencies (ICF)
• The specific elements and subtleties of the coach’s role and the coaching relationship.
• The fundamental coaching attitude and all the elements of “Coaching presence.”
• The coaching process.
• The essential coaching contract – defining purpose/focus/desired outcome.
• Ethics in coaching.
• Challenging misconceptions, attitudes, assumptions, beliefs, values.
• Active listening skills; listening and reflecting at depth.
• Observation mindset and skills.
• Questioning skills; powerful questioning.
• Creating awareness.
• Working with strong emotions.
• Debriefing and feedback.

Module 1: The Basics

• Discovering the profession of leader-coach
• Learning how to co-create the relationship
• Re-connecting with yourself while reaping the benefits of diversity to connect with others, including your collaborators
• Exploring individual and group dynamics and the foundations of the strategic, global approach to change

Module 2: Healthy and ethical relationships

• Practising coaching by developing the basics of a coaching session contract and experimenting with coaching’s eight strategic skills
• Acquiring the core concepts for a professional, ethical coaching practice

Module 3: An emerging coach identity

• Developing your practice and taking stock of your growth as a coach
• Learning different experiential approaches (“Leadership of the Living,” systemic approach, communication and constructivism, neuroscience, etc.)
• Enhancing the coach’s tool kit

Module 4: The fundamentals of group coaching

• Learning how to create a group dynamic and decode collective processes in a group Learning to practise a group’s systemic reflection and strategic feedback
• Practising several types of group facilitation
  

Teaching Method

The BECOMING pedagogy DNA relies on the following pillars:

1. Learning about yourself and reflecting on your collaborators: entering into self-awareness and awareness of the other.
2. Learning together in a "learning group" dynamic and developing collective intelligence with your learning peers: living the relationship as a learning tool to act differently and reflecting with your collaborators.
3. Learning in action: experimenting with the coaching posture and prototyping new ways to act as a leader with your collaborators.
4. Learning to bounce back as a knowledgeable and committed leader-coach.
5. Learning about yourself and your collaborators. Deciphering your cultural filters and those of your peers and seeing the impact on group dynamics' interrelationships. Identifying your communication strategies and those of your peers in a group and seeing the impact on a common project's success.
6. Learning together as a learning group.
   Experiencing group dynamics reflecting your group dynamics in the organization.
   Prototyping various team leadership types in a coaching posture with your learning group and appreciate the various impacts.

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