IPO Organization Coach
Certificate Program
This specialized program is designed to provide coaches with the knowledge, practices, skills and tools for effective coaching in businesses and not-for-profit organizations. Without exception professional coaching focuses on educating for performance, well-being and results. A coach must learn to observe and listen for the movement of an organization's on-going growth and development, as well as its unique culture. By recognizing an organization's strengths and identifying it's weaknesses, a coach assists in determining what is missing. This provides the basis for opening new organizational possibilities and taking effective action.
Coach training topics:
This training program prepares a coach to address many areas that are key for the growth of an organization and the development of its personnel at different levels. Some of the included topics are:
Organizations and work as an outcome and expression
of successful coexistence and cooperation
- The nature of work, of productivity and of organizations
- The linguistic ontology of organizations
- Understanding the five continuous movements of an organization
- Designing and managing organizational growth, stability, and change
- Empowering the development and implementation of strategies, plans and projects that produce results
- The paradox of who comes first: the organization or the individual?
Being and ways-of-being as a personal presence
of coherence, leadership and integrity
- Recognizing the importance of the individual and tapping into the collective power of the organization
- How WE ARE at work
- The emotional component of coaching
- Listening for what people deeply care about
- Supporting people in focusing on what they are capable of
- Coaching people in doing what produces results
- Fostering a balance between work and home
- Assisting in the application and integration of what is learned in coaching
Organizational culture as a celebration of shared decision making,
a unified diversity, value giving and/or profit
- Understanding the power and politics of organizations
- The US of an organization
- The THEM of an organization
- Promoting a culture of shared commitment and collective action to achieve results
- The keys to opening and closing organizational possibilities
- Customizing coaching to different types of organizations
Communication aligned to effectively produce
understanding, connection, coordination of action and results
- Conversations that produce customer satisfaction
- Managing breakdowns, difficulties, and conflicts
- Conducting productive meetings
- Key conversations and communication
- Conversation differences for executives, management, and frontline personnel
- Effective management of requests and promises
Dynamics of trust that allow for building, maintaining and repairing work relationships
- Generating individual being within an organization: presence, identity and credibility
- Establishing trust in the work environment
- Anaylzing and correcting effective and limiting group dynamics
- Developing teams and establishing teamwork
- Accountability and leadership that generates natural cooperation and essential
coordination of action
Areas of Specialization
- Hiring strategies that assure productivity and the acquistion of competitive talent
- Designing training and career development programs
- Assessment and evaluation of employee performance
- Increasing marketing success and sales effectiveness
- Project management
- Succession management
- Risk management
A coach will learn skills to provide the following services:
- One-on-one coaching in an organizational environment
- Group coaching
- Design and delivery of group training programs
- Assessment of personnel strengths and weaknesses
- Evaluation of management practices
- Examine the impact of organizational culture
Program duration: This program consists of 15 conferences over a period of three years. It also includes research, written assignments, business presentations, actual coaching and training within organizations.