Centre overview

Supporting the development of internal coaches

Coach development centres are based on established good practice from assessment centres used to select or evaluate internal and external executive coaches. They differ from assessment centres in that they:

  • Are aimed less at selection than at helping coaches create and pursue personal development plans, based on objective feedback on their coaching practice
  • Take place at least twice for each individual, to allow coaches and their supervisors to assess progress against coach development plans
  • Are integrated with a coach development planning process and a portfolio of resources for learning support

They provide a practical and highly effective means of building an internal coaching capability, which can to a greater or lesser extent replace external resourcing of executive coaches.

Course Details

The centres themselves are generally one day in person (for cohorts of up to 12 coaches) but can be adapted as needed to smaller virtual sessions, delivered across a longer timeframe.

Typically, we would invest three days in a centre:

  • One day in co-designing the centre (based upon your specific needs), planning the event & briefing internal coaches
  • One day running the centre itself
  • One day of ongoing support across the following 12 months, supporting you & your organisation to run future cohort centres

Internal coaches, who have at least a foundation certificate accredited by a coaching professional body (e.g. EMCC, ICF AfC) and/or at least six months of practice in the role.

For the Coach:

Clarity about their development as a coach

Increased confidence in their ability to have a positive impact

For the Company:

Confidence that internal coaches are as good or better than external equivalents

Substantial cost savings compared with external provision

More focused continuous development of the coach pool, based on insight into coaches’ developmental needs

The knowledge and skills to repeat centres / cohorts themselves without external support (we license the process & materials to you as a 5 year license)

  • At least 1 year in a role associated with team development & 1-2-1 coaching/mentoring.
    Or
  • Practising 1-2-1 mentor/ coach, typically accredited at Foundation level or above; utilising some team concepts, theories and models to inform practice in their own team or with another team.
  • This is an immersive & experiential program requiring a full and active engagement.

All of CCMI’s products and services align to industry best practice and international standards from the EMCC and other major accrediting bodies.

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Learning outcomes

  • Coaches identify their own 12 month development paths and are supported in pursuing them
  • The Company learns to run these centres internally

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Bespoke in-house courses available provided by a CCMI Network Member in your local country.

If your country isn’t covered by a CCMI Network Member, or you need delivery across multiple countries, please contact us

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