THE CERTIFICATE IN APPLIED COACHING FOR HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS™  

The program builds your competence and confidence over time through a combination of 15 hours of content instruction, expert demonstrations, in-class practice with peer and instructor feedback, a mentor coach for workplace application, a workbook and learning journal, and ongoing support through a community of practice.

Day 1: Coaching Fundamentals

This workshop is delivered in our virtual classroom in one day for 2-1/2 hours in the morning and 2-1/2 hours in the afternoon. At the end of the Coaching Fundamentals workshop you will be ready to practice the basic coaching conversation in your workplace, and reflect on what you learned in the workshop using the structured process outlined in your journal.

Between Day 1 and Day 2 you will be asked to begin practising your coaching skills back in your workplace.

Day 2: Applied Coaching in Leadership, Career or Health Coaching

Applied Coaching takes place approximately three weeks after the Coaching Fundamentals workshop. For this intensive workshop, you will choose a focus area in which to apply your coaching skills. Areas of focus include leadership, career or health coaching. You and others who have chosen the same application area will learn together in a smaller collaborative learning group during this workshop day.

As with Day 1, this workshop takes place in the virtual classroom and includes a morning and an afternoon session. At the end of the workshop you will be ready to practice more advanced coaching skills in your workplace, and again reflect on your learning using the structured process outlined in your journal.

Between Day 2 and Day 3, a mentor coach will be available during specified office hours to support you as you apply your coaching skills at work. You will be asked to apply what you have learned with a "client" over three coaching sessions.

Day 3: Deepening Learning through Reflection

The morning session of the final workshop is again focused on your chosen coaching application, with more demonstrations, practice and feedback to increase your skill competence.

In the afternoon session the whole group will reconvene and focus on designing structures to support your continuous learning back in the workplace.

Post-Program Support

Having successfully completed the certificate program, you will have ongoing access to a community of practice and receive notice of continuing education offerings as they become available.

Our Virtual Classroom

We use web and telephone conferencing to create our virtual classroom, which allows us to bring together an international learning community of health care professionals and mentor coaches with expertise in leadership development, career development and clinical practice.