Change is essential for organizations to grow and adapt to today's rapidly shifting marketplace, yet people and organizations are naturally resistant to change. Leadership coaching can facilitate productive change in persons, teams, and systems by enabling leaders, managers, and employees to uncover potential that might otherwise go untapped.

At the same time, many organizations realize that the traditional hierarchical model of leading and influencing is no longer optimal to succeed in today's complex and dynamic marketplace. To adopt more relational, collaborative, and consultative models for leading and influencing, businesses are evolving to build coaching cultures that encourage organizational learning and adaptability. And leadership coaching has emerged as the best way to help individuals learn to think and work together more effectively.

The ability to coach leaders is a core competency for those helping organizations to develop. Through coaching, leaders learn how to optimize the value of teams and organizations. Leadership coaching helps clarify vision, beliefs, and values, and stretches the capacity to lead and influence. Leaders then become catalysts for change within their organizations.

Taught by academics and experienced practitioners, the highly competitive and certificate in Leadership Coaching program examines the links between coaching and organization development, while emphasizing coaching skill development on three levels: (1) learning about self as a coach and instrument of change; (2) creating productive and fulfilling relationships in the coaching role and; (3) Objectives

The Certificate in Leadership Coaching is designed to help students:

• Learn how personal transformation occurs, through your own experience of transformation
• Increase your ability to reflect, notice, and self-correct
• Gain fluency in the domains of language, body, and emotion
• Understand leadership coaching as organizational intervention
• Define and practice elements of the coaching relationship
• Assemble a coaching toolkit
• Apply the concepts of adult development theory to your coaching and use of self as coach
• Understand and practice team and group coaching

Designed For

• Currently practicing coaches and consultants seeking certification.
• Accomplished organizational leaders seeking a career transition that will build on previous experience
• Experienced human resources and performance management professionals seeking to expand their portfolio of skills
• Coaches already certified , who would like to be more skilled in specifically working with leaders in an organizational context