Leadership institute Roffey Park’s new coaching qualification for workplace coaches welcomes its first cohort this month (July).

The postgraduate certificate in Coaching, validated by the University of Sussex, has a different focus and structure to most coaching qualifications, said Sabine Stritch, senior consultant and lead for the new programme at Roffey Park.

“Most draw a wide mix of aspiring life coaches, executive coaches, line managers and so forth. Our qualification is different in that it is designed specifically for experienced practitioners who want to broaden their expertise to include coaching in organisations.

“We are targeting a learning community of like-minded people with three to five years’ experience at a fairly senior level, so this would include the likes of organisational development leaders, HR and L&D practitioners, plus line managers aiming to adopt a coaching style,” she said.

As well as attendance at modules and sets, participants must coach clients, be coached themselves and undertake supervision.

Stritch explained there is no predetermined syllabus: “Instead they are guided by a framework of self-managed learning, which allows participants to determine what they want to learn and how they are going to learn it, with others, in the context and framework of their organisation’s needs.”

After module two, participants form learning sets that meet regularly to assess and evaluate each other’s achievements.

For more information go to: www.roffeypark.com/coaching

Coaching at Work, Volume 6, Issue 4