COACHING TO
EXCELLENCE COURSE
INTRODUCTION
Coaching has always existed in human communities. Whenever someone wished to pass along accumulated wisdom or practical know-how in a way that left the recipient competent and engaged in learning, coaching was present.
Our contemporary South Africa is full of rapid and often frightening changes in which no one can predict which technologies, institutions or organizations will flourish and which will fade. There is little time for theoretical discussion, yet people must quickly make decisions, allocate resources, rapidly adapt and stay highly competent. Simultaneously, these same people need a sense of purpose and meaning. That’s where Coaching has a role.
Coaches build competence, foster personal fulfillment and open up possibilities, by drawing upon the knowledge of what’s unchanging about human life and taking into account that which is particular about our times. Coaches are people who pass along accumulated practical wisdom. To be practical, the coaching must be accessible and customised; to be wise, it must be solidly grounded: biologically, philosophically, sociologically, spiritually and historically.
The Centre for Coaching links into 25 years of cutting edge coaching course development and experience offered through alliance with New Ventures West in San Francisco providing access to international accreditation and practices.
Coaching is truly a skill for the new millennium. This Coaching To Excellence course is a seminal course laying the foundations for the six month and year long programmes offered and creates a base for the life-long learning process on how to master this competence.
COURSE DATES
This popular course fills quickly so if you are interested please complete the registration form and submit at your earliest convenience. The dates are as follows:
2011
Cape TownJohannesburg
21 – 22 February 201124 – 25 February 2011
28 – 29 March 201124 – 25 March 2011
10 -11 October 201120 – 21 October 2011
Tuition 2011:
CPT -R9,600.00 plus VAT (R10,944.00)JHB – R10,950.00 plus VAT (R12,483.00)
A R950.00 non-refundable deposit is required to secure your booking
COURSE OBJECTIVES
- You'll experience and assess your own ability to work and relate with others, leaving them more productive, more accountable, and more satisfied with theiroutputs.
- You'll gain new clarity on the problems and obstacles that impede progress which could be decisively altered by the action of a skillful coach.
- You'll understand what coaching is in a way that opens new possibilities for effective interactions in your work and your life.
- You'll learn what's needed for you, individually, to develop your strengths and overcome limitations in working with others as a practiced and effective coach.
COURSE OPPORTUNITY
Up to now, people who have sought to develop a coaching competence have had to travel offshore to acquire this skill. Now, through a dynamic partnership between New Ventures West and Coaching Matters (Pty) Ltd, the ability to access world-class coach training has been made possible. This partnership has resulted in the creation of the Centre for Coaching (Pty) Ltd.
New Ventures West, founded in 1986, is a San Francisco based organisation dedicated to making people both effective and fulfilled in their work as coaches. They primarily offer programs focusing on developing people as coaches in a variety of contexts.
Coaching Matters is one of South Africa’s most eminent professional one-on-one coaching organisations and offers coaching services aimed at designing processes and structures that foster excellence, innovation and enhanced performance.
Coaching to Excellence is part of a series of coaching courses offered by the Centre for Coaching at The GraduateSchool of Business, University of Cape Town, through the Executive Management Education Programmes.
ABOUT THE COURSE
Coaching To Excellence is a two-day workshop in which participants are introduced to the principles and methods of coaching, while gaining experience and insights they can apply in their own working situations.
Participants explore what's needed to evoke long-term excellence in others' performance. They examine qualities required of a coach: qualities such as patience, discipline, and the ability to build relationships; to listen to and inspire others; clarity and rigor in their own observations; and responsibility, imagination and creativity in working and dealing with colleagues and staff.
The workshop provides a foundation for participants to develop their own ability as coaches in identifying and resolving problems, opening new perspectives and horizons on the job, and designing practices with and for others through which they elevate their level of performance over time.
WHAT HAPPENS IN THE COURSE?
In the Coaching To Excellence course, you'll not only hear the lecturer addressing the nature and methods of coaching; you'll work individually with other participants in "trying on" the roles of coach and client. Through structured exercises, case studies and simulations, you'll discover what's needed to intervene effectively in typical situations faced by managers and professionals each day.
Additionally, you'll have the occasion to work with partners on "problem" situations from your own work experience. You'll be coached not just to resolve the problem, but to coach others in a way that allows them to succeed.
RESULTS THE COURSE WILL PRODUCE
While gaining skill as a coach takes time, study and practice, this two-day workshop allows you to accomplish key results:
•You'll experience and assess your own ability towork and relate with others, leaving them moreproductive, more accountable, and more satisfiedwith their outputs.
•You'll gain new clarity on the problems andobstacles that impede progress which could bedecisively altered by the action of a skillful coach.
•You'll understand what coaching is in a way thatopens new possibilities for effective interactions inyour work and your life.
•You'll learn what's needed for you, individually, todevelop your strengths and overcome limitationsin working with others as a practiced and effectivecoach.
COURSE TOPICS
What is Coaching?
-The Premise of Coaching
-The Products of Coaching
-The Flow of Coaching
What It Takes To Coach
-Elements in a Coaching Relationship
-The Enemies of Coaching
-Skills of a Coach
-Qualities of a Coach
How to Coach
-When to Coach: Openings for Coaching
-Understanding the Client
-What to Coach About: Subjects for Coaching
-Key Elements in Enrollment
-Coaching Conversations: Preparing andDebriefing
-Points to Address
-Temptations to Avoid
ACCREDITATION
All participants who successfully complete the course will receive a certificate endorsed by both the Centre for Coaching and the Graduate School of Business which recognizes attendance and course completion.
New Ventures West holds an internationally recognized and acclaimed position in the market. It is one of the International Coach Federation’s (ICF) highest ranked coaching schools. The Professional Coaching Course that New Ventures West offers has been accredited by the ICF – the world’s largest professional coaching body. Coaching to Excellence is recognised as the gateway course to the six-month Associate Coaching Course and the one-year Professional Coaching Course, which is the fully accredited course.
Coaches who are already certified through the ICF will receive 16 hours of Continuing Coach Education Units (CCEUs) upon completion of CTE.
CONTACT DETAILS
Please direct all queries to:
Shaney Wills atCentre for Coaching,
Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town
Tel: (021) 406-1493 Fax: (021) 406-1484 E-fax:(086) 508 2519
COURSE CONVENOR
Janine Eversonis a certified Professional Integral Coach and Academic Director of the Centre for Coaching, a centre for excellence situated at the UCT Graduate School of Business. She also holds the position of Senior Lecturer at the GSB. She lectures at the GSB in Coaching and Leadership Development to MBA and Executive Education students, and has delivered and published research papers at several academic peer-reviewed conferences, as well as having published book chapters and articles on the topic of coaching in leadership development.
She is one of a handful of coaches in South Africa to achieve the status of Professional Coach through the ICF with over 2,500 coaching hours logged. In March 2010 Janine reached a rare career milestone by becoming one of only five fully certified Professional Coaching Course (PCC) Leaders in the world. This certification was bestowed on her by New Ventures West (NVW) in San Francisco, widely recognised as the premier coach training organisation in the US, and allows her to lead all the coach training programmes offered through NVW or the Centre for Coaching anywhere in the world.
Janine coaches primarily to senior executives who are often working on strategic, leadership and relationship challenges. Her clients span a wide range, from South Africans to clients from Australia, New Zealand, Europe, UK, Japan, Turkey, Dubai, East and West Africa and the full Southern African region. Her work in multinationals has allowed her to develop a keen appreciation for the challenges facing leaders who operate in multi-cultural global organisations.She consults to organisations and teams locally and internationally on the design and implementation of coaching cultures, interventions and processes, as well as leading the implementation of such interventions.
Prior to starting on her coaching journey, Janine spent more than 10 years working in the corporate, manufacturing and business environment where she was required to network and operate at senior executive levels. She held positions as Director, Exco member, Head of HR, and also handled marketing, production & start-up operations. Janine has held a number of musical positions. She continues to play the violin in orchestras and quartets whenever possible.
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