Hybrid Senior Practitioner Training
STC
Diploma
(Senior Practitioner)
A ten month program, delivered over 3 modules, through a hybrid of virtual and in-person sessions, self-study, group and supervision, we support you in an immersive learning experience.
Designed to build on your substantial knowledge and experience and deepen your experience of creating, developing and leading teams by supporting you in applying your learning to a ‘live’ client assignment. It offers the expertise of highly experienced coaching faculty and support of an experienced, international learning community.
It provides the theory, tools, information, support and learning experiences to help you build and develop your skills as a systemic team coach.
You must have completed the Systemic Team Coaching® Certificate (Practitioner) and attended all four Group Supervision/Action Learning sessions, before you can start the Systemic Team Coaching® Diploma program.
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This is the highest level of Systemic Team Coaching®
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Integrate Systemic Team Coaching® thinking and some of the practice into coaching
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Improve self-awareness and understanding of the wider system and how it impacts on teams and organizations
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Gain greater insight into how teams work including dynamics, relationships, goals and purpose
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Gain new strategies to enable to engage, motivate and empower teams to perform more effectively
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For those who have completed the Systemic Team Coaching® Certificate (Practitioner)
Program structure
Module 1 - Systemic Team Coaching as an enabler of
change: The Coach, the Team, the System
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Virtual tutorial
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Setting the stage for Systemic Team Coaching®
and the Diploma program (2hrs online self study) -
Working with teams: the role of contracting and
containment (Half day – virtual) -
Engaging with the team in its context (Three days)
Module 2 - Navigating Complexity with Confidence
and Agility
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Noticing and working with complex
organizational challenges including working
with executive, trustee and board teams
masterclass with Professor Peter Hawkins
(Half day – virtual) -
Working with change and building resilience
(Half day online self study) -
Practice and experimentation groups (Half
day – virtual) -
Working with complex dynamics in the team
and its wider systemic context (Three days
in-person) -
Seeing systems: noticing and working with
organizational patterns – masterclass (Half
day – virtual)
Module 3 - Embedding Learning and Sustaining
Transformational Change
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Virtual tutorial
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Practice and experimentation groups (Half day
virtual) -
Working live with complex challenges (Half day
virtual) -
Practice and experimentation groups (Half day
virtual) -
Transitioning the team, reviewing the coaching
engagement, and harvesting the learning (Three
half days – virtual) -
Harvesting the learning (Three half days – virtual)
Assessment
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Virtual tutorial
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Reflection and viva preparation (Half day- virtual)
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Assessment and evaluation (1.5-hour viva)
Preferred participant experience
This program is suitable to those who have experience in facilitation, coaching and developing teams or who have worked in organizational development. You will need to have completed the Systemic Team Coaching® Certificate Practitioner before attending the Diploma Senior Practitioner program.
For those wanting to develop and expand their team coach competence and become among the most highly qualified team coaches in the field today.
Suitable for:
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Experienced individual coaches with at least three years’ practice, having completed either training equivalent to ACC (ICF) or Practitioner Level (EMCC)
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External or internal consultant or HR Business partner with five years+ career in organisational development and extensive coaching experience. You will be expected to be able to present your theoretical framework for coaching teams.
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An experienced senior team leader with coaching skills
In all cases you will need to secure a client team, or be a leader of your own team, in order to complete a case study – which will be an important opportunity to experiment and practise your developing systemic team coaching skills.
This Master level program has been developed for experienced executive coaches and consultants who wish to strengthen and deepen their team coaching practice.
Working with a client team, you will be supported to become one of the most highly skilled team coaches in the industry today. You will receive regular supervision and over the course of the 7 modules.
Our faculty have combined their experience of organizational consulting, executive coaching, group dynamics, organizational psychology and other related disciplines, as well as many years the senior levels of business, to provide an exciting, experiential program.
They will support you to:
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Gain a clear understanding of the theory and methodology of Systemic Team Coaching®
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Create your own model of Systemic Team Coaching® based on our Systemic Team Coaching® approach and marketing statement
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Develop the skills to practice as an excellent Systemic Team Coach
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Gain deep personal understanding of yourself in your roles as a team member and coach and clarity about how to further build your expertise in this professional field
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Become licensed to deliver Team Connect 360 - our unique online team diagnostic
Benefits
Our Approach
We have built an enviable reputation for executive coach training, leadership, and team coaching training, which equips participants with the skills to challenge themselves and their clients.
We are proud of our Partnership’s approach:
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You are our primary focus
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Our training is experiential
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We are business focused
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We support you to become an authentic coach and develop your own signature approach and presence
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We support you to think of how you will market yourself as a Team Coach
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We provide on-going support through our alumni of Systemic Team Coaches helping you remain connected to others in the field.
During the program, you will work with and in the following contexts:
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The faculty team
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Whole learning group comprising all members of the program facilitated by the faculty
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Your external client team:
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between modules meeting with your organisational
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client team
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during the modules examining your performance
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as a team coach
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receiving supervision from faculty
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Practitioner teams of four‑eight, working together on their client teams and providing supervision to each other. This will be facilitated by a member of the faculty in support of the practitioner team’s learning
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The Systemic Team Coaching® Certificate Practitioner has a preparation webinar to initiate the learning community followed by three days of intense experiential learning. The program combines theory, case examples and practical exercises to ensure understanding and application of the Systemic Team Coaching® process.
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Using a carefully designed business simulation, you will experience and practise coaching skills and techniques first-hand, giving and receiving feedback with fellow participants to consolidate your learning.
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Expert faculty in a ratio of 1:9 will provide personal and direct feedback as you test your 'team coaching wings' in this safe practice environment.
How you will learn
Team Connect (TC360) Diagnostic Instrument
AoEC in partnership with Professor Peter Hawkins has taken his 20 years of extensive research and development in high-value teams and created an online team diagnostic instrument Team Connect 360 (TC360) based on his 5 Disciplines model.
On the program, you will experience the instrument and learn how it can be used. On successfully completing the program you will become a licensed user and so have the option of using the instrument with your professional clients.
This program holds the EMCC (European and Coaching Council) Team Coaching Quality Award, at Senior Practitioner Level, enabling you to be one of the most certified in the field.
EMCC Global (European Mentoring and Coaching Council)
The AoEC holds the Global Team Coaching Quality Award (Senior Practitioner level) conferred by the EMCC for the Systemic Team Coaching® Diploma.
Graduates of the Systemic Team Coaching® Diploma have completed the training requirements for EMCC Global Individual Team Coaching Accreditation at Senior Practitioner level.
ICF (International Coaching Federation)
Until 2023, the Systemic Team Coaching® Diploma was accredited for 121 ACSTH (Approved Coach Specific Training Hours). The ICF no longer offers this accreditation, but the hours can be used towards an ICF credential via the portfolio route and the ICF Advanced Certification in Team Coaching.
For more detailed information see the ICF website
