Level 5 Coaching With Confidence qualification

Heightened self awareness

This energising and insightful day is unique to MRA, as we build every delegate’s levels of self awareness with intense personal learning and reflection ahead of going onto the core 4 modules of coach training skills.

Delegates will be exposed to a blend of theories including Goleman’s Leadership Styles, Wheel of life, Personal Values, Transactional Analysis Drivers, and MBTI. An experiential day packed full of enhanced learning techniques to embed the increased levels of self awareness. A fantastic set up to what comes next – Module 1 ‘Coach awareness and developing the coaching relationship’.

Coach awareness and developing the coaching relationship

This interactive day will focus on the following “Coaching with Confidence” Core Competencies:

1. Demonstrating self awareness – heightened awareness of self as coach and an understanding of how this may impact on the coaching relationship
2. Building trust and rapport – ability to create a safe and supportive environment that produces mutual on-going trust and respect

Having examined what coaching is and isn’t and the opportunity that coaching presents for you in your workplace, we explore what you bring to the coaching relationship and how this might help or hinder you as coach. We encourage reflection around your strengths, values, drivers and preferences.

We examine the neuroscience around trust and how you can build trust and rapport with your clients. We draw on the theory of Transactional Analysis and explore the implications of this in creating a coaching mind-set.

Unlike many traditional models of coaching we explore whether a stance of high support is sufficient on it’s own and examine the benefits of adopting a more challenging approach to your coaching.

Developing yourself as a “person-centred” performance coach

This interactive day will focus on the following “Coaching with Confidence” Core Competencies:

1. Focused listening – ability to focus completely on what the client is saying and not saying; to understand the meaning of what is being said
2. Asking powerful coaching questions – ability to ask questions that reveal the information needed for maximum benefit to the client and the coaching relationship

We start Module 2 with a review of what practice, reading, reflection and learning has taken place since the first module.

We then introduce you to a Solution Focused coaching approach and help you to sharpen both your listening and questioning skills.

We provide lots of opportunity to practice your coaching skills and to receive feedback against the “Coaching with Confidence” Core Competencies from both your professional trainer and peers.

Positive psychology and effective feedback

This interactive day will focus on the following “Coaching with Confidence” Core Competencies:

1. Championing the client – identifies major strengths, provides on-going support for and champions new behaviours and actions
2. Giving and receiving effective feedback and challenge – ability to provide (and receive) meaningful feedback to the client, always from a position of positive intent

Module 3 starts with a review of what practice, reading, reflection and learning has taken place since the second module.

We quickly move into a review of what coaching can draw from the field of Positive Psychology and give you the opportunity to practice your coaching around a series of strengths-based tools.

Building on the earlier work regarding creating an environment of high support and helpful challenge we then focus on the field of feedback. We explore what gets in the way of giving feedback and share some tools to help you overcome these barriers.

As before there will be ample opportunities to practice your coaching and to receive high-quality feedback.

You as a truly confident coach

This final day will focus on the following “Coaching with Confidence” Core Competencies:

1. Setting goals and reviewing progress – ability to support the client to set goals / design actions; to leave the client with the responsibility to take action; to hold the client to account in relation to agreed upon actions
2. Commitment to learning and self-development – ability to reflect on own coaching experience, with a commitment to your on-going development as a coach

Module 4 is a culmination and a high point in your training. Following the usual review and reflection you will be introduced to some coach tools to help set goals, review progress and mobilise your clients towards action.

You will then have the opportunity to put into practice all that you have learned over the 4 modules during an observed practice. Your Executive Coach Tutor and peers will provide you with motivating feedback against the competencies, giving you the opportunity to reflect on your ability and progress. You will then have an opportunity to reflect on this feedback in the context of your continual professional development.