Delivery Style
- Programme Starting 30 April 2025- Blended [4 days classroom (30 April 2025, 11 June 2025, 01 October 2025, 26 November 2025) / 8 days online]. Venue for classroom days: Ibec, 84-86 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2
- Programme Starting 2 October 2025- Blended [4 days classroom (2 October 2025, 11 December 2025, 12 March 2026, 30 April 2026) / 8 days online]. Venue for classroom days: Ibec, 84-86 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2
Summary
The primary objective of the Diploma in Coaching is to facilitate the development of business coaches to apply a range of practical coaching and management skills in the workplace.
At the end of the programme participants will:
- Describe the underlying models governing effective business coaching, their application and role in the workplace
- Explain the differing styles of coaching and personality types and use the learnings to plan an approach to your role and team
- Conduct a coaching session with increased confidence and skill in a safe environment
- Gain an integrated theoretical and practical perspective on management and coaching
- Learn and understand the steps involved in ensuring all business coaching interventions are ethical and suited to the individual client
- Explore different methods of influencing others and handling conflict in an interactive manner
- Assess and evaluate fully the manager’s job in terms of managerial functions, roles and skills, particularly business coaching
Upon successful completion of Ibec’s CPD Diploma in Coaching programme, participants can complete our EMCC Practitioner level programme to receive additional accreditation at Practitioner Level and 1-year membership from the European Mentoring Coaching Council. To find out more, please contact ibecacademy@ibec.ie.
This programme is for:
All levels of management, developing your knowledge, skills and confidence as a coach. Those attending should currently occupy managerial roles or expect to move into managerial positions where they are responsible for coaching others.
Approach
The use of practical exercises will ensure a high degree of participation and self-learning, applied in a real way. A flexible approach will be used throughout, and priority will be given to the interests and learning of the group.
Submissions
To achieve accreditation, this course is assessed by exam and assignment submissions. Individual assessments are an integral part of the programme and count towards end of year results as follows:
- Two closed book exams - 40%
- Project based on 20 hours of coaching sessions (3,500 - 5,000 words) - 30%
- Learning journal and class participation - 30%
70% attendance required
Programme Schedule
- Intro to Coaching
- Organisation Behaviour
- Grow Model
- Leadership v Management
- Theory x Theory y
- People Behaviour
- Behavioural Coaching
- Coaching for Performance
- Coaching Organisations
- Organisation Culture and Climate
- Intro to DISC- Doing the Psychometric
- Personality types
- Types of Psychometrics
- Conflict and Psychological background
- Conflict coaching: Coaching in hard places (poor performance)
- Effects of Change on the Organisation, the Team, The Individual
- Contracting the organisation, the Manager, The Coachee
- Getting the best from Change
- Feedback on Personality Profile (DISC)
- Forming attitudes
- Changing Attitudes
- Behavioural Coaching
- Gestalt Coaching
- Existential Coaching
- Change Management
- Role of Ethics
- Ontological Coaching
- Coaching the Team
- Goal setting and Performance
- Emotional Intelligence and Coaching
- Coaching as part of a development plan
- Transformational Coaching
- Mentoring and Coaching
- NLP Coaching
- Peer Coaching and Coaching up
- Measuring the effects of coaching
- Transactional Analysis and Coaching
- The Integrated Model
- Training Needs analysis
- Planning and Coaching intervention
Extra:
- Each participant will also have 3 personal coaching sessions with a professional coach as part of the programme.
- Also, each participant will undergo a Personality Profile Analysis through Thomas International Profile
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Programme Facilitator
Paddy Ryan
Paddy is an experienced qualified executive and business coach with Ibec. He has spent most of his career as a senior HR director in Irish, American and Global businesses both in Ireland and Europe. Over the past 25 five years, he has worked in a number of industries at director and executive level. Central to his belief in people and management is that change is essential for personal and business growth.
As an executive and business coach, he works with individuals and teams to plan and execute on change and development getting the best results by working on the executive’s ownership of ideas.
