Leadership

Certificate in Professional Coaching Skills
 

This course is ideal if you are looking to become an Executive Coach or enhance your existing coaching skills.

A specific aim of this programme is to provide a course of study that enables professional accreditation from the International Coach Federation (ICF). This will ensure that students are eligible for professional certified coach membership of the ICF which is important if they are to meet the needs of the prospective employers and/or clients, especially those whose quality assurance processes require internationally professionally qualified and certificated coaches. It is a vital underpinning for the pan-European self regulation of coaches which comes into play in September 2012.

The course can be taken

• As a stand alone qualification
• As a stepping stone towards further qualification
• As the first step towards an MA degree in Applied Coaching

Course Content

• Coaching theory and key coaching skills
• Transactional Analysis
• Knowing yourself as a coach
• Potential and possible blockages to potential
• Using and expanding the GROW model
• Levels of listening
• Clean language and Symbolic Modeling
• Generating high quality feedback and use of Johari window
• Spiral dynamics
• Sandplay and creative coaching
• Ethics and codes of practice
• Mentoring on yur practice
• Assessment for Association for Coaching recognition

Completing this course will

• Give you the tools and capabilities to coach a the highest levels of the profession
• Give you an understanding of the theory and practical application of executive coaching
• Give you Accredited Coach Training hours (in conjunction with The Performance Solution (UK) towards the ICF Accredited Coach Training Programme (available on completion of the Higher Professional Coaching Skills Course)
• Develop you interpersonal skills


 

Managing Under Pressure

 

Course Details:

This two-day course will enable participants to manage their work lives better by improving their personal productivity and the manner in which they interact at work. Participants will learn to recognise and respond to early warning signs of overload and burnout and to discover ways to use these warning signs as signals to change work or leisure circumstaces to reduce stressors. This course includes one full day of interactive group work plus two pivate half day consultations.


Time Management
 

Course Details:

This one-day programme enables participants to increase productivity, learn how to prioritise work and work more efficiently and effectively. It covers time management from both a strategic and operational point of view. Upon completion of the training, participants will be able to prioritise tasks, analyse their use of time and develop an interruption elimination system.
 

Maximising Meetings
 

Course Details:

This one-day programme enables participants to develop the skills required to conduct focused, interesting and results-oriented meetings. Employees at all levels, particulary those with supervisory, management or coordinating responsibilities, will find this course beneficial when engaging in essential preparation and goal setting for meetings.

 

Six Sigma

Course Details:
On completion of this program, candidates will be able to use Six Sigma tools to improve both manufacturing and business processes within their organisations. Six Sigma is based upon driving variation out of the process, eliminating defects at source and hence delivering significant savings to the bottom line. As well as completing the training modules, candidates will complete an in-house project as part of a small cross-functional team. Projects that deliver savings of about €25,000 per annum would normally be considered appropriate Greenbelt projects.
Statistical concepts
Managing change