Ashridge Masters in Executive Coaching – (M.Sc.)

Contents

Module 1 - Relational coaching in practice

This module is the same as our shorter coaching programme Coaching for Organisation Consultants. It consists of five taught workshops:

Workshop 1 – Developing coaching strategies

• The nature and purpose of coaching
• The power of inquiry
• Choosing a focus for coaching
• Building the working alliance
• Coaching interventions: expanding the repertoire.

Workshop 2 –Psychological theories of personality: working in the relationship

• Psychological theories and models.
• Raising self awareness.
• Coaching as a relational process.

Workshop 3 – Repetition and change: working with patterns

• The emergence of pattern
• Addressing repetition and stuckness
• Team coaching
• Patterns in organisations.

Workshop 4 – Creative change interventions

• Perspectives on organisational change
• Six areas of focus in the coaching context
• Creative experimentation.

Workshop 5 – Professionalism in the coaching relationship

• Articulating your coaching proposition
• Assessing the value of coaching relationships
• Differences and diversity in coaching
• Ethics and professional practice: issues and considerations
• Ending the coaching relationship.

Module 2 - Reflective Learning Journey

At the start of the programme you receive a copy of the Personal Reflection Journey, which helps you to prepare for and reflect upon each of the workshops in Module 1. The Personal Reflection Journey runs simultaneously with Module 1 and is an exercise in reflecting on practice and integrating the relevant theory.

Module 3 - Ashridge Accreditation Process

After completing Modules 1 and 2, you begin to prepare for Ashridge Accreditation, a process to assess coaching capability that has been in place since 2002.

This involves:

• Joining an optional half-day preparation workshop
• Participating in a one-day practicum
• Submitting a written paper on your coaching work with a client.
• Submitting a recording and transcript of a coaching session.
• Submitting a porfolio of present practice

Full details of the accreditation process and Ashridge coaching standards are available on request.

The dates for Module 3 are arranged regularly throughout the year.

Module 4 - Inquiry into the coaching profession

This is an explorative journey of four 3-day workshops, facilitated by Ashridge executive coaches, where you meet and work with selected accomplished coaches in the field, most of whom have published widely and teach on other coaching programmes.

You will also be offered five coaching supervision sessions to help you further deepen your reflective practice as coach.

Module 5 - Inquiry into coaching in action

This is a written assignment in which you are required to undertake an inquiry both into yourself as a professional coach and your work with a specific client (or clients) over the course of the second year of the programme.

You are required to place yourself at the centre of the process of reflective inquiry into your work.

You will be assisted in this process by an academic supervisor and by being a regular participant in an inquiry tutoring group.

The resulting Masters Dissertation from this inquiry will be assessed by specially selected members of Faculty.

Accreditation

Ashridge is fewer than 30 schools worldwide to achieve triple accreditation from AMBA, EQUIS and AACSB - the UK, European and American accreditation bodies.