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Designed For:

• Practicing OD consultants, either internal or external to organizations
• Experienced human resources and performance management professionals
• Graduates of Georgetown's Organization Development and/or Change Leadership
• Practicing executive/organizational coaches, either internal or external to the organization
• Coaches credentialed by the ICF who would like to be more skilled in the domain of coaching leaders

Format:
This program includes 144 hours of instruction. Classes meet from 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM (4:30 PM on Friday) on three consecutive days, Wednesday through Friday, approximately once a month. Additional meeting times with learning team coaches are arranged to fit the schedules of participants. Classes cannot be taken independently of the certificate program.

Supplementing the 18 days of in-person classes, participants will complete significant outside reading and written assignments throughout the program, complete supervised coaching of 3 clients for a period of 3 months each, and receive individual coaching by an assigned faculty member for 6 months. Estimated level of effort outside the classroom is 10 – 20 hours per week throughout the 6 month program. The program culminates with a written examination, a live observed coaching certifying examination, and a final written paper of 20 to 25 pages in length.

In addition to the amount of study of coaching content outlined above, participants are required to engage in significant reflection and self-examination to better prepare them for the deep, personal work they will be learning to do with their clients.

Objectives:
The Leadership Coaching certificate is designed to help you:

• 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

Description:
This International Coach Federation (ICF) accredited program examines the links between coaching and organization development while emphasizing coaching skill development on three levels: learning about self as a coach and instrument of change, creating productive and fulfilling relationships in the coaching role, and understanding coaching within systems dynamics. This rigorous program prepares participants to the Professional Certified Coach level of proficiency as established by the ICF.

Coaching is needed today more than ever as a critical tool for organizational change. Change is essential for an organization to grow and adapt to today's rapidly shifting marketplace, but people and organizations are naturally resistant to change. Coaching can facilitate productive change in persons, teams, and systems by enabling leaders, managers, and employees to uncover potential that might otherwise go untapped.

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 human capital. Coaching helps them clarify their visions, beliefs, and values, and stretches their capacity to lead and influence. They can then become catalysts for change within their organizations. In changing from old hierarchical models to relational models for leading and influencing, businesses are creating coaching cultures that encourage organizational learning. Coaching has emerged as the best way to help individuals learn to think and work together more effectively.

This certificate is a cohort program; participants are required to complete all courses to earn their certificates.

Courses in Certificate Program:

Leadership Coaching as an Organization Intervention Coaching to Create Breakthroughs: Defining and Practicing Elements of the Coaching Relationship Flow of Coaching Coaching to Stage Development and Leadership Presence Coaching Teams and Groups Coaching Integration Seminar: Leveraging Your Learning and Moving Forward

Admission and Registration:
The Leadership Coaching certificate program has a competitive admissions process. For each cohort, a faculty selection committee chooses a collection of students who represent a variety of backgrounds, occupations and goals for the program in order to enrich the classroom experience. In order to insure that there is a baseline of knowledge and experience in the cohort, the following pre-requisites have been established by the faculty:

• Openness to feedback, a large capacity for self-examination and challenging one’s own beliefs are pre-requisites for acceptance into the program
• A bachelors degree
• Five years of professional experience in organization development or change OR
• A certificate in organization development, change leadership, or coaching plus two years of experience in organization development or change OR
• A master's degree in organization development, education, psychology, or related fields, plus two years of experience in organization development or change