EMCC PRACTITIONER LEVEL DIPLOMA IN COACH MENTORING

Cohort 6

2017/18

PROGRAMME OVERVIEW & APPLICATION GUIDELINES

Introduction to the programme overview

The EMCC Practitioner Level Diploma in Coach Mentoring is the East Midlands Leadership Academy’s programme to qualify new Coaches.

EMLA has a maturing group of executive coaches that works across healthcare organisations in the East Midlands. It also acts as a central hub for coaching in the region actively promoting coaching as a leadership style and developing strategy to embed a coaching culture in its member organisations. Good quality coaching requires coaches who are engaged, supervised and developed. As with all coaching pools, it is important to refresh the number of coaches to counter attrition rates.

This Programme will:

  • Develop a cohort of coaches with the academic knowledge necessary to underpin their practice and the ability to continue their learning independently after the completion of the programme.
  • The NHS is a complex organisation. It has undergone significant re-structure and reform and will continue to do so to address future challenges. Both individual leaders and increasingly, leadership teams, are being challenged to perform in a complex and changing environment.
  • Therefore, the role of coaching and individual coaches is increasingly featuring more prominently within NHS organisations as an approach to enable organisations and its people to become more resilient, connected to the wider system and ‘change ready’.
  • Enhance the confidence and experience of participants to enable them to be effective coaches

The NHS is a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) environment. It combines this'unknowability' with a social, political and cultural drive to 'be right', avoiding error, setting anddelivering on targets. The result is an environment in which the process of change is often treated asstructural and linear, rather than embracing continuous evolution and experimentation. Andleadership styles are predominantly action oriented, focussed on driving others to 'do' the changerather than engaging others in a clear and authentic sense of purpose and enabling the flexible and

resilient organisation needed to deliver in this environment. The outcome is frequently high levels ofstress and a sense of being trapped in a world that simply 'doesn't work the way it should'.

How can coaching and mentoring help?

Coaching has a key role to play in enabling the NHS to meet its challenges. At the simplest level,coaching and mentoring provide support to individual leaders, adding to their personal flexibility andresilience. It clarifies self-awareness, helps them to find sense of personal purpose and balance andmanage their impact in the complex political system more effectively. It can help them to be a greatersupport to others, developing a coaching style with peers, their team and their bosses.Adding to the coaching resources of NHS organisations allows more access to this benefit - whether

as part of a leadership role or as a specialist internal coach or mentor.Increased understanding and focus on coaching styles and approaches can also impact on theculture of the organisation, freeing it to respond more effectively to the VUCA environment. Howeversuch a shift is problematic where there is insufficient integration and 'maturity' of coaching andmentoring - and so the supervision and support of coaching leaders and internal coaches and

mentors is vital if longer term sustainable shift is to be realised.

Partnering with The OCM a global leader in Coaching and Mentoring consulting, the programme will be predominantly distance learning with a large amount of self-directed learning and self-management of coaching relationships that form part of the programme.

The programme includes:

  • 4 x 1.5 hour skills development webinars
  • 5 hours of one-to-one coaching plus 4 hours of feedback from a coach-mentor-supervisor
  • 2 x 1.5 hour group telephone coaching session
  • 2 x Practical skills workshops
  • Practice coaching sessions each month with 3 volunteer coachees
  • Take part in a range of activities to raise awareness and build knowledge including readingbooks (7), action learning sets (2), streamed online content (up to 160 hrs) and self-assessments(2). All of this work take place during the taught 7 months of the programme,other than logging on to the Learning Portal, there are no requirements for pre-work.
  • The indicative content for this programme will enable candidates to:
  • Develop advanced questioning, listening and feedback skills;
  • Develop a simple set of process tools to manage the coach-mentoring relationship;
  • Attend webinars on developing resilience/work-life balance, supporting change effectively,psychological insights and coaching models/supervision
  • Develop questioning sequencing techniques like GROW and Appreciative Inquiry;
  • Develop other tools like the Wheel of Work, the ABC Model, Iceberg Model, the ChangeHouse, Psychodynamic Model and Gestalt principles;
  • Develop enhanced objective reflection techniques;
  • Develop an understanding of relevant ethical issues.

Through this approach, which includes approximately 150 to 200 hours of learning over 7 months, candidates will build an online portfolio of evidence which is then assessed against the EMCC standards for Practitioner level.

Who is EMCC Practitioner Level Diploma in Coach Mentoring for?

EMCC Practitioner Level Diploma in Coach Mentoringis for everyone who wants to become a qualified Coach with Strong line manager support, have the ability to build rapport with a range of people at different levels in organisations.

Opportunities to coach within role to support the coaching pool, able and willing to contribute to regular supervision sessions and willingness to be coached – go through their own ‘coaching journey’.

Below is a flowchart showing the application process and key dates:

How do I apply?

There are 14 places on the programme.

See Application Guidance below for further information and access to the application form.

EMCC PRACTITIONER LEVEL DIPLOMA IN COACH MENTORING

APPLICATION GUIDELINES

Application Form Guidance

Application Forms must be submitted by 12:00 noon Friday24th November 2017

PLEASE NOTE: Once you are accepted onto the EMCC Practitioner Level Diploma in Coach Mentoring you will be expected to attend all programme workshop dates. Failure to do so will result in cancellation charges to your organisation and you may not graduate from the programme.

Completing the form

It is important that all sections of the form are completed fully and that the answers you provide are considered and developed. Although there is no word limit for the form, we would recommend that each answer contains between 150 – 300 words.When considering your answers please try to give as much information as possible and use continuous prose rather than bullet points. If you are unsure how to answer any of the questions then please feel free to contact the Academy.

The application form is designed to ensure participants are fully committed to attendingthe EMCC Practitioner Level Diploma in Coach Mentoring,understand the aims of the programme, and maximise the opportunities available to them.

Commitment to completing approximately 150 to 200 hours of learning over 7 months, candidates will build an online portfolio of evidence which is then assessed against the EMCC standards for Practitioner level. Through applying for the programme you are also committing to providing at least 20 hours of coaching per year for the next two years in the East Midlands. You need to ensure your individual line manager completes their part on your application form to support your learning and ensuring that you are both fully committed to attending all aspects of this leadership programme.

Confidentiality

All of the forms will be anonymised for the purposes of scoring and the information you provide on the forms will be treated confidentially with the following exception. Where you give your permission for answers to be used as evidence for publications related to the EMCC Practitioner Level Diploma in Coach Mentoring.

Scoring the Forms

The forms will scored by theEMCC Practitioner Level Diploma in Coach Mentoringdelivery team and these scores will then form part of the baseline for the programme.

Key Contacts

Programme LeadPam Smith-Falls

Programme CoordinatorKerry Chapman

Telephone0115 748 4277

email

Please email your completed forms by 12:00 noonFriday 24th November to:

East MidlandsLeadershipAcademy, Floor C, Institute of Mental Health,

University of NottinghamInnovationPark (UNIP),Triumph Road, Nottingham. NG7 2TU.