4. How will my organisation benefit?

• Increased confidence in the internal coaches/managers/leaders being properly equipped with the skills, knowledge and ethical understanding they need
• Further steps in developing a coaching culture in your organisation
• An increased organisational capacity to support and increase employee development, engagement, and performance

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6. ILM qualifications

ILM is the UK’s leading provider of leadership, coaching and management qualifications and training. More managers in the UK take qualifications from ILM than anywhere else and employers recognise the value of ILM training and the high quality assessments that are part of the qualification. ILM’s qualifications are a proven route to developing management skills, and growing your knowledge and capability.

8. How Much Work Is Involved For The Learner?

To give you some idea of the work involved here is the requirement for the Level 5 Certificate:

• Virtual Workshops. The programme will consist of 16 ‘live’ group workshops facilitated by Mike Roarty & Kathy Toogood, which will last around two hours.
• Coaching/mentoring practice. ILM require 18 hours of coaching practice for the Level 5 Certificate. You begin these coaching hours after the classroom training is completed, so that you are fully prepared for the practice hours.
• Supervision and Tutorials.These are spread across a 3-4 month period, while coaches are completing their coaching hours and are doing the work of their written assignments, described below.
• Written work-based assessments.ILM require three written assessments. The first of these is around the knowledge and theory related to coaching and mentoring, which has a guide word count of 4000-5,500 words. The second is the record of coaching practice hours (18 hours), and the third is the coach’s reflections and learning from the coaching practice, the impact of supervision, and the individual’s development as a coach.

   

  Participants are allowed up to three years to complete the course, although in practice we strongly recommend that people complete the certificate within 9-18 months from the start of the programme. With a rough expectation of 160 hours spread across the workshops, coaching hours and assignments, across a 9-month period, as a guide, participants will probably be spending 3-4 hours a week on average in completing the qualification. This figure obviously reduces if the learner spreads it over a longer period.

  ILM publish detailed guidance on how each assignment will be assessed. This helps participants in writing their assignments and structuring their work, and we will of course explain all this during the programme.