Coaching Foundations Certificate Program

For registration information please contact Barbara Hogg at 401-277-5200.
Professional Development Registration Form

In today’s economy, organizations with the best chance to succeed and thrive are those that become learning organizations. Organizations that find meaningful ways for their employees to connect are more likely to realize greater productivity, enhanced career growth, improved innovation and overall better employee performance. Employees can be developed and educated through multiple methods. One method to help turn an organization into a learning organization is by building coaching.

This program offers a unique coaching model, an asset-based approach designed to help with personal or organizational decision making, assist with reframing perceived problems, aid with career path work, and provide suggestions for approaches to personal development, professional growth and balance with personal lifestyles.

The instructor for this program is Dr. Gene Knott who has been a professional coach for over 20 years, working primarily with senior and C-level executives. Dr. Knott has worked extensively with six sectors: health care, human services, finance, high tech, higher education, and with professional associations.

Participants will complete a 15–hour noncredit certificate program that will meet in the evenings from 5:00-8:00 pm. Sessions will meet at the URI/Alan Shawn Feinstein College of Continuing Education, 80 Washington Street, Providence, RI 02903.

Who can benefit from this certificate program?

All workers, i.e. executive, managerial, supervisory, training, team leader, who seek to develop or refine their skills or engage others in meeting organizational goals.

We can deliver and customize this program for your organization.

For more information about the program please contact Christine P. Dolan Christine@uri.edu

Program meets June 2009-August 2009. Program Fee $1300.00

SESSION DESCRIPTIONS

SESSION ONE: Orientation and Asset-Based Coaching
(Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 5:00-8:00 PM)
Learn the evidence and basics for asset-based coaching, including “Key Sets” to the process, and an appreciative frame for the work.

SESSION TWO: The 3 Rs of A-B Coaching: Reasons, Roles, & Rules
(Tuesday, July 14, 2009 - 5:00-8:00 PM)
Examine the “case” for coaching, its roles, settings and applications, as well as basic Asset-Based Coaching tenets and ethical practice.

SESSION THREE: Working with Mindset: The Coaching Paradigms
(Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 5:00-8:00 PM)
Provides trainers and organization consultants with a framework to help develop employees, to rollout a new program or project, or help the organization accommodate planned changes through a-b coaching

SESSION FOUR: Working with Skillset: Coaching Processes & Procedures
(Tuesday, July 28, 2009 - 5:00-8:00 PM)
Acquire core capacities, active listening & feedback skills, plus complementary processes and risk-taking as a coach.

SESSION FIVE: Working with Toolset: Instrumented Coaching & other Techniques
(Tuesday, August 4, 2009 - 5:00-8:00 PM)
Explore a toolkit for coaches, some key formats, scaffolding, scoring and timing.