It is ideal for executive coaches, OD professionals, facilitators, and consultants who want to provide a high quality and impactful team coaching service. Already done some team coach training but still not feeling confident in the room? This is perfect for you too.

While other Team Coaching Diplomas focus on methodologies and frameworks, our Diploma goes deeper.

We have many years of experience in this discipline and understand that a coach’s true skill is to ‘stand in the heat’ and observe the dynamics of a group, as they play out in front of you.

It can be scary not to try to fix the problem, particularly when the team turns to you for answers.

Our Diploma has been designed to give you the confidence to use yourself as an instrument, so you can make the shift from facilitation to true team coaching. Whatever your background, learning these skills will benefit your whole practice.

Typically after you’ve completed the Diploma, just getting one Team Coaching assignment will more than cover your investment.

In addition, Team Coaching can help coaches to build a much more substantial business.

Coaching 10 one-to-one clients at, say £3-5k per client, is very different to coaching 5 teams at, say, £20k each!

You’ll see a return in other ways too, as you embark on a transformative journey to greatly improve your confidence in working alongside teams of any size and level, and find the courage to take on new challenges.

We ask that applicants:

• have experience of working with groups and/or teams.

• have a good understanding of the core competencies of coaching and be able to demonstrate these competencies in your practice

  • for those with formal coach training, these are defined by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), the Association for Coaching (AC) or those another credible coaching professional body

  • for those who are not formally trained coaches, you may have developed similar skills through other professional routes like counselling, psychology or leadership development

• have completed or be willing to complete the e-learning course Team Coaching Fundamentals and read Mastering the Art of Team Coaching by Georgina Woudstra. Both are included in the Diploma programme materials.

• where you are new to TCS, be willing  to engage in a short call with faculty to ensure you are the right fit for the programme.

You will be part of a small, multicultural cohort . Your programme will be run by TCS faculty, led by TCS Founder Georgina Woudstra (MCC/ACTC) and TCS Faculty

We aim for a student to host ratio of 1:8.

As well as the advertised zoom dates for taught modules, we recommend you set aside:

• 1 hour per week for the duration of the programme for your small team activities.

• 1 hour per week for the duration of the programme for personal reflective practice and to complete your assignments.

• Time as agreed with your small team for your team project work.

You will also need to coach a real team for 3 x 90 minute sessions. You have up until 1 year after the final live learning session to find and work with a team and submit your case study on this work.

We ask that all participants read Georgina’s book, “Mastering the Art of Team Coaching” and complete the self guided e-learning programme Team Coaching Fundamentals. TCF takes approximately 12 hours to complete.

You are also required to read and digest the Diploma Handbook and the code of ethics provided by your coaching professional body. 

All pre-reading is contained within the resources section of your private online space for your cohort.

You will integrate your learning by coaching a real-life client team. This will form the material for your team coaching case study essay, as well as support your development by applying your learning to a real-life team.  This might be paid work, a team in your organisation or completed pro bono. You are required to coach a real work team for a minimum of 3 x 90-minute sessions. You have until 1 year after the final live online learning session to find and work with a team and submit your case study.

The programme cohort will be organised into small teams (sub-groups within the cohort). Each team is charged with undertaking a small team project, with the goal of making a contribution to the profession.