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EXECUTIVE COACHING DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

Next course:	To be advised
Cost: R 20 000.00 Excluding VAT
Presenter: David Armstrong
	David Armstrong is a Principal Consultant at The Tavistock Consultancy Service. His background is in organisational psychology and he has carried out action research and consultancy assignments with a wide variety of private and public sector organisations , from industry, commerce, banking, education, the health service, criminal justice and government agencies.
In recent years he has worked extensively in role consultation with senior executives, in organisational development programmes and on the management of change. Trained in group dynamics he has directed and worked on programmes in this field in the UK , Europe, Israel , the USA , and Australia . His particular interests are in the dynamics of management and leadership and the uses of emotional intelligence as a guide to organisational understanding and practice, on which he has written and published.
Presenter: Judith Bell
	Judith Bell is a principal consultant ,and Portfolio Director of Executive Coaching  with the Tavistock Consultancy Service. She is a Chartered  Psychologist and has a wide range of experience of coaching, supervision, teaching, training and consulting to organisations in private and public sectors.  Her special interest is in personal development for executives and managers and con-
siders that a focus on emotional well-being is critical to organisational effectiveness.  She has a particular focus on creativity at work and the conditions in which those in leadership roles might realise their whole creative potential. Judith is also interested in how to help teams work more effectively together and in the leadership and dynamics of virtual teams.  She has been involved in several training initiatives on this topic and has developed a Masters degree course entitled ‘Working with Groups'.

Course Overview

As a consequence of the frenetic pace in organisations today, those in leadership roles rarely find the opportunity to reflect on their roles as leader, and how they balance their work role with other aspects of their life.

The South African Executive is continuously faced with a vast range of challenges - mergers, management buy-outs, takeovers, internationalisation, diversity, restructuring, increased customer awareness and transformation. In order to successfully deal with these challenges, Executives need to manage, inspire and motivate staff throughout the organisation; ensure effective executive board and team functioning; influence and negotiate with stakeholders inside and outside the organisation; mentor, coach and delegate to senior colleagues – as well as manage their own career, personal development and work/life balance.

The rise of executive coaching has been driven by the need for a more readily available, more pragmatic source of executive learning. The combination of learning and support is what makes executive coaching such a powerful instrument in the development of Executives.

Until recently it has been less common for executives and directors to continue to learn and develop themselves. They instead assumed the role of mentors and coaches, accepting that their own need for learning and support is something of the past.

Work Dynamics in association with Tavistock Consultancy Services is pleased to offer a first of its kind Executive Coaching Development Programme to the South African market – the Tavistock Accredited Certificate in Coaching Skills.

Work Dynamics (Pty) Ltd was established in 1993 by leading practitioners in response to a growing need for professional human resource and organisational development services. In 1997 a formal strategic alliance was established when P-E Corporate Services (Pty) Ltd became a shareholder of Work Dynamics (Pty) Ltd. This arrangement is in line with the vision of the two organisations to forge strategic alliances and partnerships with like-minded professional organisations. As a strategic alliance, P-E Corporate Services (Pty) Ltd and Work Dynamics (Pty) Ltd are dedicated to searching for achieving standards of professional excellence that assist our clients in producing effective results. In doing so, joint ventures and alliance relationships are forged with leading academics around the world.

In offering our clients “cutting edge” expertise in Executive Coaching, we established an alliance relationship with Tavistock Consultancy Services (TCS). TCS has an international reputation for quality and excellence consulting, training and research, and a history of ground breaking work, especially in leadership selection, training and development. The unit furthermore focuses on programmes in senior executive coaching; top team building and development; leadership training and workshops; group facilitation; process consultancy and managing continuous change.

Tavistock Consultancy Services bring a unique “below the surface” approach to this programme, together with experience both in psychotherapy and in senior coaching with blue chip, public and private sector clients.

AIM AND OBJECTIVES OF PROGRAMME

The conceptual base of the programme is the Tavistock systems and psychodynamic approach to leadership and organisational development.

Aims:

• To extend participants understanding of the task and process of
  executive coaching
• To increase participants’ effectiveness as coaches

Objectives:

• To appreciate the contribution of psychodynamic and systemic
  understanding to the coaching task
• To develop skills in listening, questioning, reflecting, giving
  feedback and hypothesising
• To understand the dynamics of building the coaching relationship,
  including engaging, contracting, reviewing and ending
• To be able to monitor and use one’s own experiences in the
  coaching relationship as a working tool

PROGRAMME STRUCTURE …

The Development Programme is offered with two separate modules.

In the period between the Modules participants will be expected to engage in coaching experiences to apply acquired coaching knowledge and skills. Each participant will therefore have to identify at least two executives to practice their skills on.

LEARNING APPROACH

The Programme Tutors will draw on didactic, experiential and observational learning techniques to maximise participants’ skill development. Systems and psychodynamic theory will be explored and participants will be expected to work with their own case studies and be prepared to use experiential learning techniques and feedback. Other learning formats which will be used include group discussions, facilitated role-plays, consultancy syndicates, critical incident analysis, video analysis and feedback.

CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

Assessment of participants will take place on a continuous basis throughout the course:
• Reflective notes will be required after each module (1 500 words) -
  to assess learning and development awareness of the
  psychodynamics and systemic processes at work in coaching.
• Write up of coaching casework (3 000-4 000 words) – to assess
  understanding of the developmental relationship and capacity to
  use training insight in practice.

Guidelines will be provided for assessed work for students. For award of the Tavistock Certificate in Executive Coaching, each unit must be passed at 40%. Failed units may be resubmitted once. Each unit will be marked independently by course staff.