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Leadership Coaching and Change
Delivering tomorrow's drivers of growth
Since 2009, Career Connections, in partnership with the Academy of Executive Coaching (AoEC), the most highly accredited coaching organisation in the world, has delivered executive coaching programmes and services in East Africa. Career Connections has a vision to develop the profession of executive coaching as part of the development of executive leadership in Africa.
By combining training from the AoEC and delivery using experienced coaches as faculty in East Africa, the executives can access best-in-class global coach training and local, relevant and knowledgeable delivery. We have the largest pool of executive coached trained to the highest global professional standards along with an expert team that can provide consultancy; and have the capacity to run one-on-one executive coaching, team coaching, and coaching and mentoring programmes through our international partners.
MEET THE TEAM
Graduates of the Practitioner Diploma in Executive Coaching programme go on to become a part of a global panel of expert coaches. The role of the panelist to transform individuals through high-quality executive coaching for harnessing hidden potential
Our programme faculty and executive coaches at Career Connections are highly skilled and respected, with experience working in various industries and coaching at the senior executive level.
We work with international partners to provide trainings that are globally recognized and accredited.
Our training approach is involving and based on experience and observation. Within a safe learning environment, participants practice skills taught, and benefit from observing, giving and receiving feedback from peers and faculty.
Our programs are recognised and accredited by leading accreditation organisations; including the International Coach Federation, the European Mentoring and Coaching Council, and the Association for Coaching.
Our Training Programmes
The Practitioner Diploma in Executive Coaching offers an effective and enjoyable way to develop and grow as a leader, while learning and practicing professional coaching skills to help others grow.
The programme challenges clients to reach new and potentially unknown depths of personal and professional transformation. The Practitioner Diploma in Executive Coaching offers delegates the opportunity to explore existing models of coaching and discover their own unique style of coaching. This highly experiential programme helps delegates learn and practice core skills needed to become successful executive coaches.
- Accredited by all three leading global coach accrediting bodies: the International Coach Federation (ICF), the EuropeanMentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC), and the Association for Coaching (AC)
- Leadership Assessment for delegates as part of the programme to help in their self-awareness and coaching development.
- Exposure to different models of executive coaching and an opportunity to identify and draw upon elements of the coaching models that align with the delegate’s unique personality and leadership style.
- A fully researched programme, with practical case studies, updated annually by leading coaches internationally.
- A blended learning model that includes virtual or in-house modules, e-learning, group exercises, one-on-one coach supervision and group tutorials.
- Written and verbal feedback from faculty in each module on your leadership and coaching skills
- Experiential learning environment through a comprehensive process of psychological and theoretical input, coach practice, observations, feedback, and reflection.
- Opportunity to network with like-minded senior leaders seeking to develop themselves and others.
- Qualification as an internationally accredited and certified executive coach.
- Full ICF 60 Accredited Coach Specific Training Hours (ACSTH), Associate Certified Coach (ACC®) Accreditation.
- Build strong, professional relationships based upon trust, respect and rapport.
- Draw upon a significant body of psychologically grounded coaching skills to promote 'coachee' development, encourage breakthrough and deepen understanding.
- Align coaching to leadership, business and organisational context.
- Manage effective closure to exceed client, coach and sponsor expectations.
- Enhance your core skills in practice sessions with direct and immediate feedback.
- Establish peer coaching relationships to promote coaching practice.
- Learn how to utilise consulting skills in a coaching context.
- Experience supervised coaching practice.
- Understand how your own experience of organisations influences your coaching approach.
In addition, the programme challenges delegates to explore their personality, interests, and unique leadership style. This well-designed and integrated executive coaching programme is one of the most versatile and powerful leadership development and management tools available for individuals, teams, and organisations.
The Coaching Skills Certificate Programme provides a robust initial learning experience into coaching; it is a learning journey that instils coaching skills, deepens understanding, and inspires managers to coach. Participants experience what it’s like to be an executive coach and begin to understand the power and success of coaching.
The Coaching Skills Certificate for Managers programme is designed to provide managers with vital coaching skills to enhance their leadership and management skills and achieve results with their teams through formal and informal coaching conversations. In addition, the programme helps organisations embed a culture of coaching as the default strategy for boosting talent capacity and achieving business objectives.
The Coaching Skills Certificate for Managers is Programme is a three-day, modular course that is accredited by the International Coach Federation.
- Is facilitated by experienced, senior, and accredited executive coaches who are also trained AoEC faculty for East Africa.
- Is customised to the needs of the organisation in order to support the business strategy.
- Provides an experiential learning experience for participants to acquire practical skills to coach on-the-job immediately after attending the course.
- Includes pre-training preparation and post-training review and feedback with participants to support implementation.
- Includes coaching tool kits and participant booklets to support learning.
- Is accredited by the International Coach Federation (ICF).
- Offers 12 Accredited Coach Specific Training Hours (ACSTH).
- Is researched to ensure Transfer of Learning.
- Bring clarity to the distinctions between: coaching, mentoring, counselling and training.
- Learn when to use coaching as a powerful leadership intervention.
- Start at the very beginning by learning key skills such as listening, powerful questioning, and goal setting.
- Discover and apply alternatives to giving advice.
- Use an effective four-stage model that will enable participants to begin coaching their teams right away.
- Go behind coaching’s core competencies to establish why coaching is so powerful and effective by understanding the type of questions that will yield the best responses, ways of listening that get clients to say more, how to have a conversation that leads to greater resourcefulness, accountability, and outcomes.
- Learn the difference between coaching for performance and coaching for development.
Team Coaching is the next big evolution of the coaching profession. Now more than ever, organisations are looking at how to motivate and manage their teams in a period of change and uncertainty. But what is Team Coaching? How is it different from coaching individual team members, team facilitation, team building, team development, or action learning sets?
A key component of Team Coaching is working with the team as the client and individual members – including the leader, as a subset of the client system. Stakeholder engagement, internally and externally as well as attention to the wider environmental context adds to the richness and complexity of the interactions.Coaching at this level is the hallmark of highly effective team coaching.
John Leary-Joyce, President and Founder of the Academy of ExecutiveCoaching (AoEC), has created an integrated model of Team Coaching that is at the centre of this three-day Systemic Team Coaching Certificate (STCC) workshop.
The STCC workshop is designed to:
- Provide a rich didactic context in which participants discuss and debate different aspect of teamwork and team coaching.
- Apply business role-plays and simulations to evoke the experiences of working in/as a team.
- Facilitate exploration about the nature of leadership and followership both individually and collectively through exercises.
- Expose participants to the experience of Sculpting and Constellations.
- Provide participants an opportunity to be in a peer supervision group in which they will explore their team.
- Work with a large group process as a way of engaging live with interpersonal dynamics and psychological models.
Please contact us for more information and Programme Dates.
Mentoring is one of the most powerful and impactful development methods an organisation can use to support and grow its people from within. It brings significant, long-lasting and wide-ranging benefits not only to the mentees and mentors, but also to teams, the wider organisation as well as key third parties such as the mentees’ line manager.
Adopting a holistic approach to mentoring enables individuals and organisations to make positive change through a blend of support and challenge within a unique learning environment. When an organisation has a strong pool of effective mentors, it has a further impact on the overall culture of the organisation. This programme is offered in Partnership with Coaching and Mentoring International (CMI).
The Certificate allows participants to:
- Explore the origins and core concepts of mentoring – understanding the two main models of mentoring (sponsorship and developmental)and how to best use the models.
- Differentiate mentoring and coaching - how they differ and how they can be used to support each other.
- Understand the role of the mentor, mentee, and line manager in a mentoring relationship.
- Realise how mentoring relationships evolve in the five phases; building rapport, clarifying purpose and direction, heightened learning, winding up, and moving on.
- Go behind the mentoring core competencies and skills needed to have authentic mentoring conversations that lead to resourcefulness, and greater outcomes.
- Understand appropriate situations to give feedback, advice, when it’s okay to give advice and when to give guidance.
- Discover what can go wrong in a mentoring relationship and how to avoid it - the most common problems with mentoring relationships.
The Programme includes: 1/2 day MasterClass | 2 days Mentoring Skills Development | 1/2 day Post-Course Review
The Certificate in Professional Mentoring Programme is scheduled based on client needs and requests. Please contact us for more information and to schedule a bespoke Programme for your line manager and senior leaders
Competency-Based Interviews (CBI) are a type of structured interview, where candidates are asked to describe their actual experiences in relation to a set of pre-defined competencies. Initial questions are supported with follow-up questions (probes) that are specific and elicit the required evidence. This course is aimed at anyone who participates in interview panels and has little or no experience of conducting CBI. It may also be beneficial to those who have not previously had a chance to take part in a formal course on interviewing.
Research into CBI has proven that the use of this structured interview approach is more than twice as effective as conventional unstructured interviews. As practitioners, we have been involved in the design and implementation of many different selection processes. We have been fortunate to learn much from the experiences of our clients. However, we have also encountered situations in which there has been an apparent lack of understanding of the key principles or important nuances associated with the interview process.
By the end of the course delegates will be able to:
- Explain how the CBI fit into the selection process of the organisation.
- Provide a background and basis for the use of CBI and its advantages.
- Review various methods of assessments and compare the CBI’s effectiveness.
- Prepare for CBI interviews and use CBI questions and answer plans.
- Demonstrate ability to use CBI techniques.
- Demonstrate how to evaluate information gathered from a CBI to support effective decision-making in selection.
- To explain the importance of equal opportunity and discuss a code of conduct for tackling discrimination in recruitment.
CBI Training is offered based on client needs and requests.
Our Services
One-on-one executive coaching is a combination of a supportive exchange between the coach and client, a rigorous commitment to goals, respect, and openness, which provide a rare opportunity for the client to participate in a journey of self-discovery, building awareness, taking responsibility, and exploring options. This opportunity to reflect and create is seldom found in today’s fast-paced organisations.
A skilled and accredited executive coach uses a combination of skills in observation, questioning, listening, and creative techniques based on sound psychological processes to create a conversation that is rich in insight and learning.
- Improved sense of direction and focus.
- Enhanced self-awareness.
- Increased capacity to relate and influence others.
- Ability to innovate, change, and advance creative ideas.
- Increased motivation and inspiration.
- Improved personal effectiveness.
- Increased resourcefulness and resilience.
- Greater team engagement.
- Achievement of business objectives.
- Productive dialogue and team dynamics.
- Clarity of strategic thinking.
- Increased commitment.
- Effectiveness and fulfilment among the executive team.
- Improved communication and collaboration within teams.
Systemic Team Coaching is a process of coaching a whole team, together and apart, over a designated period. Systemic team coaching supports leadership development and the work of high performing teams through a process in which team members clarify vision, co-create their agenda, discover how to operate asa team, build trust and cohesion, and increase collective capacity by leveraging synergies.
The Systemic Team Coach facilitates dialogue at the individual and team level to help a team reflect on core learning, identify emerging patterns of behaviour, build consensus on organisational mandate, and leverage team dynamics. The results of team coaching include greater shared leadership, delegation and empowerment of other members of the organisation, increased resilience, loyalty, and trust.
- Learn together in a continuous core learning process.
- Manage team dynamics and enhancing collaboration.
- Develop a collective leadership.
- Align efforts towards a common purpose and business strategy.
- Establish how the team will engage stakeholders to facilitate technological innovation and tools.
- Transform the organisation holistically; including, sustainability, productivity, and cultural transformation.
Coach supervision is the interaction that occurs when executive and coaches periodically bring their coaching experiences to a coach supervisor to engage in reflective dialogue and collaborative learning for the development and benefit of the coach and their coachees. The purpose of coaching supervision is to serve the needs of the coach, coachee, and organisation; the supervision experience provides support for enhancing and sustaining coaching practice.
Supervision is a unique and critical component that supports and enables a coach to become and stay at their best. The sessions provide the AoEC Practitioner Diploma Alumni with coaching supervision, for their self-development as coaches on one hand, and to sharpen their awareness of how to best work with their coaching clients on the other.
- Reduce anxiety and doubt associated with inexperience.
- Acquire professional and personal support and reference point.
- Give feedback and reflections on your coaching styles and approaches.
- Exchange information, observations, and experiences.
- Share learning from different experiences, approaches, models, and even techniques from other coaches.
- Maintain quality standards and ethics, and help work through ethical dilemmas.
- Facilitate your AoEC re-accreditation requirement of 1-hour supervision for 20 hours of coaching.
- Reinforce peer support as a key factor for the transfer of learning in coaching.
- Increase your range of interventions and tools, hence an opportunity to develop new coaching approaches.
- Provide an opportunity to practice, reflect, action learning, deepening skills and broaden coaching perspective by exploring thematic coaching aspects.
ACCREDITING BODIES
Accredited Coaching Training Program (ACTP) accreditation is intended for third party training providers who are interested in having their training program accredited by the International Coach Federation (ICF). ACTP accredited programs are considered “all inclusive” training programs, which offer start to finish coach training. A minimum of 125 student contact hours, Mentor Coaching and a performance evaluation process are required for ACTP approval.Graduates of an ACTP program may apply for an individual ICF Credential via the ACTP credential application path.
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The EMCC exists to develop, promote and set the expectation of best practice in mentoring, coaching, and supervision globally for the benefit of society. Their vision is to be the ‘go to’ body in mentoring, coaching, and supervision
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The Association for Coaching® (AC) is a leading independent, and not-for-profit professional body dedicated to promoting best practice and raising the awareness and standards of coaching, worldwide.Our purpose is to inspire and champion coaching excellence, to advance the coaching profession and make a sustainable difference to individuals, organisations and society
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The Academy of Executive Coaching is the most highly accredited coach training organisation in the world. Since its inception, the AoEC has been committed to maintaining the highest professional standards, becoming the only coach training company to be accredited by major professional bodies: AC, ICF, EMCC and APECS.
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The EMCC exists to develop, promote and set the expectation of best practice in mentoring, coaching, and supervision globally for the benefit of society. Their vision is to be the ‘go to’ body in mentoring, coaching, and supervision
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The Association for Coaching® (AC) is a leading independent, and not-for-profit professional body dedicated to promoting best practice and raising the awareness and standards of coaching, worldwide. Our purpose is to inspire and champion coaching excellence, to advance the coaching profession and make a sustainable difference to individuals, organisations and society.
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