What You'll Learn
Creating the conditions for team members’ empowerment and building a healthy culture continues to be a critical objective for companies and leaders. Coaches play an important role in helping leaders promote individual growth and performance and nurture positive cultures in which team members thrive. This unique program, facilitated by certified executive coaches and leadership educators, offers science-based approaches to advance your skills in executive and leadership coaching.
In this interactive program, participants will deepen their understanding of the principles of neuroscience, human development, and leadership theories; and explore how to utilize your own journey and strengths in coaching to enhance your impact. Participants will have the opportunity to apply the concepts to client scenarios through peer-coaching sessions and leave with tools to integrate into coaching engagements to inspire client growth and change.
Program Benefits
- Promote trust and facilitate conditions for discovery with clients.
- Develop a deeper understanding of neuroscience and human development principles to enhance your coaching.
- Design and implement effective leadership development plans using an outcomes-based approach.
- Advance your coaching skills through small group peer coaching and instructor demonstrations.
- Earn a Certificate of Completion from the Harvard Division of Continuing Education.
Who Should Enroll
This advanced coaching program is appropriate for external coaches interested in deepening their coaching practice as well as internal coaching professionals with experience coaching employees. Those with a minimum of three years or 100 hours of experience as coaches will find this program highly beneficial.
Executive coaches with less than three years or 100 hours of coaching experience should enroll in Leadership Coaching Strategies before advancing to this program.
Topics Covered
- Evidence-based coaching frameworks: learn the art and science of coaching
- Neuroscience and adult development frameworks
- Somatic coaching and the role of the body in leadership
- Emotional and social intelligence in coaching
- Opportunities and challenges in the coaching conversation lifecycle
- Gauging results of coaching engagements
- Tools to support a coaching development plan
Considering this program?
October Schedule
Week 1
- Coaching Conversational Life Cycle
- Fundamentals of Neuroscience and the Body in Executive Coaching
Week 2
- Trust and Vulnerability
Week 3
- Components of a Successful Coaching Engagement
- Conversational Intelligence (CIQ) and Positive Intelligence (PQ) Frameworks
Week 4
- Master Coaching Demonstration and Practice
November Schedule
Day 1
- Coaching Conversational Life Cycle
- Fundamentals of Neuroscience and the Body in Executive Coaching
- Trust and Vulnerability
Day 2
- Components of a Successful Coaching Engagement
- Conversational Intelligence (CIQ) and Positive Intelligence (PQ) Frameworks
- Master Coaching Demonstration
February Schedule
Day 1
- Coaching Conversational Life Cycle
- Fundamentals of Neuroscience and the Body in Executive Coaching
- Trust and Vulnerability
Day 2
- Components of a Successful Coaching Engagement
- Conversational Intelligence (CIQ) and Positive Intelligence (PQ) Frameworks
- Master Coaching Demonstration
May Schedule
Day 1
- Coaching Conversational Life Cycle
- Fundamentals of Neuroscience and the Body in Executive Coaching
- Trust and Vulnerability
Day 2
- Components of a Successful Coaching Engagement
- Conversational Intelligence (CIQ) and Positive Intelligence (PQ) Frameworks
- Master Coaching Demonstration
August Schedule
Day 1
- Coaching Conversational Life Cycle
- Fundamentals of Neuroscience and the Body in Executive Coaching
- Trust and Vulnerability
Day 2
- Components of a Successful Coaching Engagement
- Conversational Intelligence (CIQ) and Positive Intelligence (PQ) Frameworks
- Master Coaching Demonstration
Instructor
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![Madeline McNeely]()
Madeline McNeely
Madeline teaches Non-Profit leadership and Community Engagement at Harvard Extension School and was a Coach, Facilitator and Coach Recruiter at Harvard Business School. Supporting clients to think in expansive ways and develop sustained habits to solve their most vexing people, organizational, and network challenges is her sweet spot.
Instructor
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![Madeline McNeely]()
Madeline McNeely
Madeline teaches Non-Profit leadership and Community Engagement at Harvard Extension School and was a Coach, Facilitator and Coach Recruiter at Harvard Business School. Supporting clients to think in expansive ways and develop sustained habits to solve their most vexing people, organizational, and network challenges is her sweet spot.
Instructor
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![Madeline McNeely]()
Madeline McNeely
Madeline teaches Non-Profit leadership and Community Engagement at Harvard Extension School and was a Coach, Facilitator and Coach Recruiter at Harvard Business School. Supporting clients to think in expansive ways and develop sustained habits to solve their most vexing people, organizational, and network challenges is her sweet spot.
Instructor
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![Spela Trefalt.]()
Špela Trefalt
Špela Trefalt is an executive coach, educator, and researcher specializing in leadership development, work-life integration, and strategic relationships. She earned her Doctorate in Business Administration from Harvard Business School and served as a professor of management at Simmons University. A Professional Certified Coach by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), she supports leaders across consulting, law, finance, healthcare, and academia.
Instructor
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![Madeline McNeely]()
Madeline McNeely
Madeline teaches Non-Profit leadership and Community Engagement at Harvard Extension School and was a Coach, Facilitator and Coach Recruiter at Harvard Business School. Supporting clients to think in expansive ways and develop sustained habits to solve their most vexing people, organizational, and network challenges is her sweet spot.
Certificates of Leadership Excellence
The Certificates of Leadership Excellence (CLE) are designed for leaders with the desire to enhance their business acumen, challenge current thinking, and expand their leadership skills.
This program is one of several CLE qualifying programs. Register today and get started earning your certificate.
