Systemic Team Coaching® Diploma

A stimulating, practical and multifaceted learning experience, this EMCC-accredited programme empowers experienced coaches, organisational development consultants and team leaders to become amongst the most highly skilled and qualified team coaches in the field today. Learning to coach the connections, systemic team coaching delivers value beyond the individual as a sustainable form of team development and stakeholder management.

Exponential change and greater stakeholder complexity call for new forms of leadership development that can create learning at individual, team and organisational level. As senior executives adopt a more collaborative team-based leadership style, systemic team coaching can play a pivotal role in their development strategy so that organisations become better equipped in understanding their stakeholder needs and anticipating what customers will value tomorrow.

Benefits for you

• Integrate Systemic Team Coaching thinking and some of the practice into your coaching
• Improve your self-awareness and understanding of the wider system and how it impacts on teams and organisations
• Gain greater insight into how teams work including dynamics, relationships, goals and purpose

Benefits for your organisation

• Learn how to have better, constructive conversations with teams
• Gain new strategies to enable you to engage, motivate and empower teams to perform more effectively

What you will learn

Thetheoretical foundations andpracticeof Systemic Team Coaching ®– one of the longest running team coaching programmes available, you will master your understanding of the Systemic Team Coaching model. Based on Professor Peter Hawkins’ established and proven research, methodologies and training you will gain the skills, experience and knowledge to work as an AoEC qualified systemic team coach.

How to apply the Hawkins’ Five Disciplines Model– you will work with a real-life client case study as part of the programme in order to gain experience of how this coaching model is applied in a real world client setting with support and supervision from both your fellow course participants and an experienced faculty team.

About who you are as a team coach– you will develop your own signature presence as you craft your own model of systemic team coaching and supporting marketing statement.

How to work confidently when coaching client teams– you will gain confidence, presence, authority and resilience when contracting and working with teams at all levels.

How to use and apply the Team Connect 360 diagnostic tool in client work– you will be licensed to use the tool and gain experience of interpreting a TC360 report.

How you learn

The programme runs over 7 modules which are a blend of virtual and in person modules.

Please note that the Systemic Team Coaching ® Certificate programme is an entry requirement for the Diploma programme.

You will explore and discuss the practice of systemic team coaching and the research and theory which underpins it.

You will practise key skills and supervision through team coaching with your peers, by working with the dynamics of the learning community, by using the Team Connect 360 diagnostic tool and by arranging a team coaching case study with a client.

The programme uses its large group experience with observations and comments from the faculty team who will openly discuss the process.

Personal development comes through being a participant on the programme and examining the process of being in it, while going through it and from the final assessment.

You will learn from individual tutorials and a final assessment viva.

Your learning experience

Learning is shared through faculty-led sessions and the whole learning group which is facilitated by the faculty.

You will work with your external client team between and during models and receive supervision from the faculty.

Practitioner groups of four to six will work together on their client teams and provide supervision for each other. This will also be facilitated by a faculty member in support of the practitioner team’s learning.

Accreditation

EMCC (European Mentoring and Coaching Council)

The AoEC holds theGlobal 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 forEMCC Global Individual Team Coaching Accreditation at Senior Practitioner level.

For more detailed information see theEMCC website.

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.

TheSystemic Team Coaching Certificate(Module 1 of the Systemic Team Coaching Diploma) is accredited for 19 CCEUs (Continuing Coach Education Units) - 3 Resource Development and 16 Core Competency.