Practitioner Coach Diploma Course – Details
Train as a Life and Executive Coach with Noble Manhattan:
Welcome to the Practitioner Coach Diploma Course
If you are new to coaching, this course is the ideal vehicle to achieve your coaching aspirations. You will engage in the development of fundamental knowledge together with the practical application and demonstration of essential coaching skills. Whatever your ultimate goal, the solid knowledge and skills base acquired through the Practitioner course is vital to any form or arena of coaching.
The course combines distance and face to face learning:
1) Distance Learning
For more details on the course content download / view PCD color brochure
2) Residential 3 Day Training – This is the face-to-face element of the course
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— The cost of the Residential Experience is included in the price (all accommodation, three course meals and snacks), so you don’t pay for it additionally. And you retain the right for ever to return to the Residential and partake of the training for FREE, as many times as you wish in the future.
** The whole course takes about 350 hours, depending on your speed of learning and how fast you work will depend on how long it will take to complete. What we usually find is that if someone is doing 10-12 hours per week they can expect to get the course done in 9-12 months.
The course is designed to be fully flexible and is designed to fit around a full time job or family. You can work through the course a lot quicker if you want to but you can’t really expect to get the course done in less than 6 months. The course is designed to be fully flexible and fit around your life style so you can start the course anytime you wish. We also offer our students a number of comfortable payment plans to make it as easy as possible for each student.
Accreditation: The course is fully accredited with the IIC – the International Institute of Coaching. The IIC is one of the international accreditation bodies for coaches and coach training providers. The course is also endorsed with ILM -Institute of Leadership and Management. In the end you will receive an internationally recognized Diploma as a Life and Executive Coach. Contact us today for further details on how to register
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Part 1 – Distance Learning
We send out, by courier all the course materials that you’ll need for the course. This consists of
• A Student Portfolio – a folder which contains all of the modules and course work that you’ll need to work through
• A course handbook – This will guide you through the whole course and give you information on how to log your coaching work
• We also send a book called Co-Active Coaching.
Book and Book Critique
The first part of the written work is to read the Co-Active Coaching book and write a book critique. The book critique is just your thoughts down on a couple of sheets of A4 and there’s no real right or wrong answers it’s just your understanding of the book. You don’t even have to like the book. We understand that a lot of our students haven’t been in a school environment for some time so we don’t mind about punctuation, spelling etc. etc.
Mentor coach
Once the critique has been received back into the office for marking and once you have started working through about a third of the modules and a 1/3 of the teleclasses we will then allocate you a mentor coach. This is a senior or master level coach. You will have six sessions with your mentor coach which can be taken at any time, each session lasts for 30mins. The mentor sessions are done over the telephone or you can get free calls on Skype. It is a bit like a role play exercise where you coach the mentor coach (they act as the client) and at the end of each session they’ll give you feedback on how well you did and area’s where you need to improve. The mentor coach is like your driving instructor on the practical side.
Teleclasses
There are 14 teleclasses to be done. You don’t need a special telephone; you just dial through to a special number that we will provide. These calls are like a mini lecture over the telephone. The teleclasses tie in with the modules you are working through in your course material and could be on beliefs, ethics, questioning skills, listening skills etc. There’s a live call once a fortnight on a Tuesday evening at 7pm. They’ll be other students on line and a chance for a questions and answers session at the end. If you can’t make the live call, don’t worry because all of the calls are recorded and archived, so there’s hundreds of calls that you can access at anytime you wish.
Alternatively, if you would like to download them from the member’s area they won’t cost a thing and you can save them on to a disc and listen to them at anytime convenient to yourself. (I know a lot of people have saved them onto discs and listen to them while they are travelling, on their way to work)
Practical coaching
There’s 50 hours of practical coaching to be done. This can be done with friends, relatives, colleagues etc if you wish to, it’s entirely up to you, as long as people know that you’re not a qualified coach and it’s all done free of charge. We’ll also put you in touch with study buddies. These are other students that are on the course. You can also find your own by using our e-group which is a special email system for all our students and coaches. With study buddies you can do reciprocal coaching where you’d coach them for an hour or so and they’d coach you back for an hour, just to build up your hours of coaching. Again, this can be done on Skype.
Written Work
There are 3 reflective essays to be do and a final assignment.
And when your mentor coach thinks you’re ready for it they’ll put you forward for a final practical skills assessment. Thinks works exactly the same way as a mentor session but instead of giving you feedback at the end you will be assessed on your performance.
Part 2 – Three Day Residential Course
This is over a Friday, Saturday and Sunday and is fully inclusive. You’re fully looked after from the moment you arrive. You will have your own double bedroom which is en-suite, all meals are included, refreshments, elevenses etc etc – We do this for a reason. We don’t want people to worry about the little things like the cost of a sandwich or a cup of coffee. We limit numbers on our residential course to about 25-30 students to about 6-8 trainers and staff. We limit numbers so people get the full benefits of the weekend. The first day is taken by Gerard (the principal of NM) and is very fast paced and upbeat. He’ll teach you various different coaching techniques and practices and in the afternoon you will go off in twos and threes to practice these techniques. The second day is taken by a master person in N.L.P. (Neuro Linguistic Programming) trainer. That day is a lot deeper and slower paced and the trainer goes into overcoming limiting beliefs, time lines, eye accessing techniques etc. The third day is taken by one experienced master coach and again is much more faster paced with a lot of group exercises. You’ll learn a lot more coaching techniques and can really start to develop yourself as a coach.
You will really enjoy the residential experience and at the end of the weekend you will find everyone switching telephone numbers and keeping in contact with people they got on really well with, as they can work with them for the rest of the course.
The residential can be taken at anytime during the course, we do strongly advise that you have read the book and written the book critique, completed a 1/3 of the modules and listened to 4 teleclasses. We ask you to do this because if you haven’t read the book and learned some of the techniques then the first half a day would be quite unclear.
We run the residential weekend every 2 months so you can just choose which one is best for you.
Contact us today for further details on how to register
Noble Manhattan Coaching is the longest established company that trains Life Coaches and Executive Coaches in the world (first registered 1993) and a well-established leader in the field of personal development. We train over 1000 coaches a year in 26 countries around the world.
We are delighted to announce that since May 20, 2011 we have officially launched in BULGARIA.
Coaching Support:
Many agree that the thing that makes Noble Manhattan stand out from other companies is the support we offer not only while you are on the course but for life. We are still in touch with most of our coaches today and work with the closely.
Here is some example of a few things we do to support you:
Support Groups – We run these on a monthly basis all over the UK, Ireland, Poland, Romania and we keep developing. This is a great opportunity to meet like minded people in your local area, discuss the course/coaching, listen to speakers and have as a great social event.
Members Area – designed for all NM students, Coaches and Associates to provide as much backup, help, care and support as you need. You will have access to hundreds of hours of downloadable teleclasses, past essays, helpful hints, details of support coaches and access to an online community so you can join study groups and talk with students/coaches worldwide.
Business 4 Coaches – is a sister website to the NM group. All it does is help you set up your own business and help you gain work.
It provides:
• Education
• Training
• Knowledge
• Support
• Hundreds of coaching forums, templates and business letters
The opportunity to participate in actual paid coaching contracts. We have companies get in touch
with us, asking for coaches so you can apply for these contracts like applying for a normal job.
Marketing Advise – We can advise you on how to market yourself (niche marketing) and how to get your business started and the IT department can also design you a website at a very reasonable price.
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