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Coach Education Overview

Learn how to become a confident and competent organisational coach.

Essential Foundations for Coaches

IECL offers the essential foundation course for anyone looking to add coaching conversations to their toolkit. Suitable for coaches and leaders building a depth of knowledge and skill. Level 1 Certification focuses on functional capability while Level 2 Certification focuses on relational intelligence.

Organisational Coach

Level 1 certification

The IECL Organisational Coaching Level 1 Certification course teaches you the essential foundational skills of organisational coaching including the tools, techniques and understanding of how to conduct high performance coaching sessions that get results. This course builds functional capability and is the starting point for all coach education at IECL.

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Coach Education Introduction

Discover the importance of coaching skills for all professionals in this video. Learn about the IECL Level One Certification, a foundational course providing essential tools and techniques for effective organisational coaching. Elevate your future career; watch here!

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Gain qualifications and credentials in coaching

Undertaking your coach education with IECL also means you are on track to attain International Coaching Federation (ICF) credentials.

ACC

Associate Certified Coach

IECL provides organisational coach education pathways to ICF ACC and PCC credentials in 2023 (and in 2024 we'll be adding the MCC pathway for coaches with 2,500 hours of coaching logged).

PCC

Professional Certified Coach

Once you are on your way to 500 hours of coaching practice logged you can work towards the coach education, mentoring and development required to apply for ICF's PCC, or Professional Certified Coach, credential with IECL (we are accredited to sign you off at PCC level, once you complete our PCC/Level 2 pathway).

MCC

Master Certified Coach

The MCC, or Master Certified Coach, credential at ICF is for master coaches who have 2,500 plus hours of coaching logged. IECL will offer this pathway in 2024 and beyond, so start logging those coaching hours!

IECL is a proud provider of International Coaching Federation (ICF) Coach Education, Level 1 (ACC), Level 2 (PCC) and AATC (Advanced Accreditation in Team Coaching). Our primary goal as coach educators is to create and support confident and competent, ethical organisational coaches. See the Coach Education tab above for more information or contact us to set up a one-to-one chat in your time zone.

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    Level 1 certification

Every journey in organisational coach education at IECL starts with Level 1 Certification, our foundational (and famous!) course. It provides all the skills and tools you need to get started with coaching within organisations, whether as an internal or external coach. After Level 1 Certification you have many choices and options, depending on your goals as a coach. Not sure where you're heading as a coach? After Level 1 you'll know much more about what you want to do next.

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PIECL; the gold standard for organisational coaching, globally.

Organisational coaching stands distinctively apart from other forms of coaching. If your aim is to excel in coaching within any organisational setting, whether as an internal or external coach, it is crucial to master the unique skills of an organisational coach. This specialised expertise is key to navigating and succeeding as a coach in the complex dynamics of organizational environments.

IECL has trained organisational coaches since 1999, and is renowned for the quality of both our training and the coaches that graduate with IECL qualifications. PIECL is our peak qualification and stands for “Professional IECL Organisational Coach”. You can gain the PIECL credential by completing IECL’s four core courses:

  1. Level 1 Certification
  2. Level 1 Accreditation
  3. Level 2 Certification
  4. Level 2 Accreditation

These four courses are focused on training the most competent, confident and ethical organisational coaches, and our experience is that those completing the four courses are extremely solid in their coaching skills, and feel fully confident to coach anyone, anywhere.

On your successful completion of these four courses you will be awarded the PIECL badge and while you are a fully paid IECL Member you can use the post-nominal PIECL after your name.

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Why choose IECL?

IECL is a specialist provider of organisational coach education. Organisational coaching is different to life, business and other forms of coaching and if you choose to specialise in this area, it's important to participate in coach education that specifically addresses the complex organisational context. IECL have built a reputation as experts in the organisational coaching space since 1999. We train our competitors and the industry as a whole, and set the standard for global excellence in organisational coaching.

World Class Coaching Education

IECL’s coach education program is taught by organisational coaches who also happen to be excellent facilitators of adult learning. When they are not training, they are employed as coaches, working in organisations, so you will learn about real organisational coaching from their experience, not just theories from books. Our lead faculty are highly experienced organisational coaches and have thousands of hours of one-on-one organisational coaching experience. All our faculty are credentialed coaches with the ICF, and the lead faculty member on each course has a minimum PCC credential. Supporting faculty are ACC credentialed (as a minimum) and are PCC candidates (building their 500 hours of coaching practice). They know what works, and what doesn’t from their many years of coaching experience.

Based on Solid Foundations

The IECL coach education program is grounded in clear frameworks and theories and is very experiential; about 65% of Organisational Coaching Certification Levels 1 and 2 is comprised of coaching practice, so you leave the workshop feeling competent and confident to start coaching right away. The IECL coach education program is an International Coaching Federation Accredited Coach Training Program (ICF Levels 1 and 2), so your IECL qualifications are recognised internationally.

Flexible Global Learning Options

IECL's program is a blended learning program, meaning that you can complete some sections of the program in your own time online (anytime, anywhere). Only the three workshop days (of Level 1 and 2 Certification) require synchronous attendance, either online via Zoom in a time zone to suit you, or at one of our face-to-face training locations in selected cities.

IECL Supports Your Ongoing Development

IECL offers a strong Membership community of practice to support your ongoing development as a coach (including business development), post nominals (the letters after your name that connote your status as a coach in the Member community), coaching practice rounds with reflective practice built in, and coaching demonstrations by master coaches. We also support you in launching and growing your coaching business, gaining CCEUs (for ICF renewals) and building your network through this global community of organisational coaches and leaders. After completing Level 1 Certification, you will also join our free Alumni program, giving you access to regular free events to develop your coaching knowledge and practice.

The Organisational Coaching Experts

IECL is a specialist provider of organisational coach education. Organisational coaching is different to life, business and other forms of coaching and if you choose to specialise in this area, it's important to participate in coach education that specifically addresses the complex organisational context. IECL have built a reputation as experts in the organisational coaching space since 1999. We train our competitors and the industry as a whole, and set the standard for global excellence in organisational coaching.

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Narrative Approaches to Organisational Coaching

Narrative Coaching enables the coach to work with their counterparts in ways that uncover, unpack and re-author their powerful (and often limiting) narratives.

Team Coaching

Team coaching is a fast growing, highly sought after form of coaching with methodology, training and competencies distinct from coaching for individuals.

CSU Pathways

Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma and Masters pathways available in organisational coaching and leadership via Charles Sturt University (CSU). IECL Level 1 and 2 Certifications, plus three other IECL courses offer full credit at CSU.

Principles of Organisational Coaching

This fully-online coaching theory course provides an excellent background to any organisational coach education and supports you to articulate your own coaching philosophy, definition and rationale, as well as plan your ongoing professional development.

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