Post-Graduate Team Coaching Certification

A complete 40-hour team coaching certification.

See the Team Coaching faculty explain an overview of the twelve class modules — a behind the scenes look.

College of Executive Coaching's Team Coaching Certification is for experienced coaches who are seeking ICF-approved team coaching training aligned with the ICF Team Coaching Competencies for the upcoming proposed ICF Team Coaching Specialty Designation. You will learn a systemic team coaching approach based on a thorough understanding of the unique features of team coaching.

The interactive curriculum includes team coaching competency development, multiple team coaching models and techniques, team coaching case discussions, team coaching project, mentor coaching, and assessment of coaching skills. The International Coach Federation is still developing their proposed ICF Team Coaching Credential requirements, which may include additional requirements such as additional coach training hours, team coaching supervision and an examination.

Online Virtual Program - Option One

Requires previous completion of CEC six-hour Team Coaching prerequisite

Online Virtual Program - Option Two

If six-hour CEC Team Coaching prerequisite was not previously completed

Upon registration, immediately receive prerequisite six-hour self-paced Team Coaching modules

Faculty

Susan Douglas, Ph.D., ACC
Patricia Schwartz, MA, PCC
James Jones, MBA, ACC
Lily Seto, MA, PCC
Team Coaching Supervisor

Pre-Requisites

Six-Hour Introduction to Team Coaching Course
Brief Application of Interest and Experience; CEC Approval for Admission

Benefits of Team Coaching Certification

Receive team coach training, forms, templates, and assessments
Learn how to scope a team coaching engagement, interview team members and other stakeholders, coach teams and team meetings as well as an orientation to basics of pitching team coaching work and contracting
Learn how to facilitate the team coaching session to maximize the team's engagement and learning
Learn the common derailers for team coaching and develop your own, unique responses to them
Learn how to measure the impact of team coaching
Learn to coach the team directly through expanding your ways of looking at teams, the range of approaches you can use when coaching teams, and presence and impact that you bring to your team coaching roles
Learn how to make the transition from one-to-one coach working with leaders to being able to work with the whole team
Gain the tools to ensure that the team coach is equipped with the ﬂexibility of response to cope with almost any situation that may occur in this challenging environment
Receive a Team Coaching certiﬁcate suitable for framing

Program Structure

40 hours

12 modules: 1 week each (2.25 hours per week)
Main session: 75 minutes; and Practicum Session = 60 minutes
3 Q&A sessions: 60 minutes, each is three weeks apart
Reading, videos and assignments each week: 6 hours total during entire program (approx.) of self study and practice
4 hours group mentoring/supervision (three 80-minute meetings)

Curriculum

Module 1: The Fundamentals of Systemic Team Coaching and the Role of a Team Coach

The Five Disciplines Model
How do we show up as a systemic team coach
The key stages of a team coaching assignment through a complex adaptive systems lens
Critical mind shifts — how you will be diﬀerent at the end of this program
When it is advisable not to take on a team coaching assignment

Module 2: Introducing Team Coaching and Diversity

Introduction to the unique elements of diversity and inclusion in team coaching
Self-identification and diversity in your team coaching approach
Small group work — global diverse team simulation practice
Techniques for tracking similarities and differences in diverse teams
Team coaching practice in pairs, next steps to take in coaching practice scenarios

Module 3: Introducing Team Coaching to Clients and Organizations — Multiple Strategies: Contracting, Working in Pairs, and Preparing the Team to Be Coached

The systemic team coaching process
Contracting at different stages
What a typical team coaching program looks like
Creating own set of Discovery questions
How to start building your own Systemic Team Coaching Practice

Module 4: Inquiry and Development Agenda and the Discovery and Preparation Phase

How to conduct an informative co-inquiry process
How to use the Team 360's and the VIA Team assessment
How to enable the team to make sense of the data
How to co-design the development journey
Developing a customized structured interview tailored to situation
Connecting our Appreciative Inquiry/Peak Experiences with strengths assessments

Module 5: Developing the Intercultural Team Coaching Mindset

Assessing individual coach self-awareness and development of an intercultural team coaching mindset
Complete the Intercultural Development Inventory
How to leverage your identity when coaching diverse teams
Understanding learned biases and implication for coaching multicultural teams
How to use coaching to nurture psychological safety for members of multicultural teams

Module 6: Commissioning Discipline, Scoping the Assignment, Team Well-Being and Assessment

How to coach the team's discovery of their common purpose in relation to stakeholder expectations
Creating the small team initial planning process
How to contract with: The team, The team leader, Sponsors, Your co-coach
How to work eﬀectively with a co-coach
Research-based ingredients of thriving teams
Understanding risks to a net thriving culture
Promoting career engagement for net thriving
Coaching for strengths insights and action items for five well-being elements

Module 7: Clarifying Discipline, the First Session

How to design the session structure with the team leader
How to coach the team's co-development of their team charter
CID-CLEAR Model
Coach a team into adding transformational KPIs
How to apply a collective team build exercise

Module 8: Coaching the Team Live in Their Meetings Both Face-to-Face and in Virtual Meetings, Building Relationships and Enhancing Learning

How to use time outs, nudges, reframes, feedback
How to coach virtual team meetings
The team as an entity, how to facilitate the voice of the team
Tools and techniques for building relationships, enhancing learning
How to hep team meetings be more effective

Module 9: Co-Creating Discipline, Working with the Room — Emotions, Psychological Safety, and Collective Awareness

To enable the team to deliver on their purpose and strategy
How to coach the team's process
How to recognize the diﬀerence between single and collective leadership
How to design and use powerful questions in a team context
How to address the stages of development of the team
Additional methods of honoring and supporting diversity, equity and inclusion in team coaching

Module 10: Connecting Discipline, Engaging the Team with its Systems

How to coach the team's engagement with all their stakeholders — facilitating live team and stakeholder events
How to manage the emotional projections of the team in relation to stakeholders in order to create a more eﬀective engagement
How to work with the connections between teams, to create a 'team of teams'

Module 11: Core Learning Discipline; Disengagement — Measuring the Effectiveness of Team Coaching

How to coach the team to becoming an eﬀective learning team
Enabling it to increasingly team coach itself
Using the team contribution grid
How to bring the team coaching engagement to a positive close
How to put into context the impact of team coaching

Module 12: Your Learning Journey and Building Your Own Team Coaching Practice

How to integrate the learning from this program
Planning the next stages of your development
How to position your service oﬀering in ways that meet client team's needs and provide diﬀerentiation
Your team coaching elevator pitch
Your continued development plan as a team coach
How to make eﬀective use of supervision as a team coach

Note: Program subject to change.
Team Coaching Certification Level One counts for 40 hours of ICF Coach Specific Continuing Education.