Level 5 Coaching for Professionals

Some of the biggest challenges for managers are: developing teams that hold themselves to account; building and sustaining a healthy workplace culture; and motivating and supporting staff, particularly in a tough economic environment. Coaching skills are a means by which these challenges can be addressed.

Bayes Business School is now offering the Level 5 Apprenticeship in Coaching for Professionals fostered by our relationships with professional organisations through our flagship Executive Master's in Leadership (EML) Programme.

The focus of the programme is on professionals who are interested in developing themselves and others. This might be in a leadership or management role, a specialist role in Human Resource Management, Learning and Development, Organisational Development or in a role that involves formal or informal mentoring and coaching as part of team/leadership responsibilities.

The programme is designed for those who want to coach one to-one as part of an organisational coaching network and for others who will use it to enhance their own professional capabilities and management skills.

Increased confidence in skills to:

• Manage others
• Develop and motivate others
• Manage performance
• Get the best out of teams
• Understand human behaviour
• Develop own coaching style
• Embody and encourage a culture of listening, respect and equality.

Gain key techniques required to:

• Build stronger teams
• Provide support for employees
• Align to the organisation’s values and objectives
• Enable a more inclusive culture
• Improve employee satisfaction scores and staff retention
• Manage conflict at an early stage before escalating
• Build leadership capability and talent succession planning.

All teaching is evidence-based and designed and delivered by experienced Bayes faculty coaches who have worked across a number of professional settings.

The 15-month programme is interactive, experiential and draws on the expertise of the participants on the programme, whatever their role and background. The teaching will be predominantly in-person with some virtual half day sessions.

The programme incorporates a range of learning styles from face-to-face classroom teaching, on-line sessions, supervision groups, group feedback, observed coaching sessions, coaching pairs, self-directed learning and coaching practice sessions with volunteer clients.

The structure of the programme is based on four modules with nine teaching days in total that run over the first 12 months followed by 3 months for End Point Assessment preparation and completion.

The modules for each programme:

• Module 1 - covers the fundamentals of coaching and the evidence behind the growth in coaching within organisations
• Module 2 - consists of the core skills required for coaching, learning about coaching models and how they might be applied with different clients and in various contexts
• Module 3 - focuses on developing the coach’s own style and practice
• Module 4 - situates coaching within an organisational context and how it might positively benefit organisational culture

On completion of the programme, participants will be able to apply for industry-recognised status with any of the following top three professional coaching bodies:

• The EMC (European Mentoring and Coaching Council)-Global Individual Accreditation
• The Association for Coaching Coach Accreditation
• The International Coach Federation Member.

• You must be employed for a minimum of a 15 months.
• You must be working in a position where you either manage others, appraise others or need communication skills in a people-facing role
• You must be working a minimum of a 30 hour week
• You must be able to commit to practice 50 hours with individual coaching clients.

Fees: £5,000 paid through the apprenticeship levy. Please contact us direct if you are interested in the programme and work outside the UK and therefore not eligible for apprenticeship levy funding.