Executive coaching programme – Tavistock Consulting (ECP)
Improve your effectiveness as a coach and develop your coaching career
Please note: you may see the ECP course also referred to as SCTCTP002 in communications from our application system.
About this course
This programme is rooted in a systems-psychodynamic approach to organisations and is practice-based. It uses different learning techniques to develop your in-depth coaching skills including experiential exercises, facilitated role-play, theory presentations, skills practice, video analysis and reflective plenary sessions. There is a focus on noticing and making sense of your actions, both as a coach and in the learning environment: the experiential learning the Tavistock is famous for.
You will undertake ninety hours of coaching and receive intensive supervision, both one to one with an experienced supervisor and in small coaching syndicates and supervision groups. You will develop your coaching practice under group and individual supervision and your reflective capacity through detailed feedback on the reflective log you will submit following each two day programme module.
The modules on this course will cover different aspects of coaching including defining the task of coaching, understanding and developing yourself as an effective coach, the impact of coaching on the client’s organisation, working with difference and issues of diversity, developing the coaching relationship with clients, linking coaching to the wider business environment and ethical practice.
The external examiner for the course is Erik de Haan, Director of the Centre for Coaching at Ashridge Business School.
Who is this course for?
The course is suitable for:
- practising coaches who want to work at a deeper level with clients
- organisational consultants who wish to develop their one-to-one coaching skills
- executives, managers and clinicians wanting to add coaching to their portfolio.
Course details
There are no academic qualifications required for entry into the course, and participants come from many professional backgrounds. Participants share a desire to work at a deeper one-to-one level with clients in organisations, in order to help improve working relationships and personal effectiveness.
Decisions about suitability are based on a one-to-one interview with a member of the course faculty.
Course fees: £9,500
For more information about financing your studies and your fee status, please see our fees and funding area.
Please note that course fees are subject to a 3% or CPI uplift each year, whichever is greater.
We are happy to offer a range of ways to pay your fees, as well as some funding for specific courses.
Assessment
For the award of the Tavistock Consulting certificate in executive coaching, participants must satisfy course staff that they possess the relevant competencies for practice in alignment with the EMCC senior practitioner competency framework.
50% is based on continuous assessment of the development of students’ coaching skills through observation including a mid-course and end-of-course review, 50% on written submissions i.e. case summaries based on current coaching practice.
Attendance
Attendance is part-time, with a mix of online and face-to-face teaching.
| Module / Session | In Person Dates & Times |
| Module 1 | 9.00am – 5.30pm, 7 – 8 November 2024 |
| Module 2 | 9.00am – 5.30pm, 13 – 14 January 2025 |
| Group Supervision | 9.00am – 1.00pm, 15 January 2025 |
| Module 3 | 9.00am – 1.00pm, 10 – 11 March 2025 |
| Group Supervision | 9.00am – 1.00pm, 12 March 2025 |
| Module 4 | 9.00am – 5.30pm, 28 – 29 April 2025 |
| Group Supervision | 9.00am – 1.00pm, 30 April 2025 |
| Module 5 | 9.00am – 5.30pm, 23 – 24 June 2025 |
| Group Supervision | 9.00am – 1.00pm, 25 June 2025 |
| Group Supervision | 9.00am – 6.00pm, 15 September 2025 |
| Group Supervision | 9.00am – 6.00pm, 17 November 2025 |
| Individual Supervision | To be arranged directly between participant and supervisor |
In addition there will be four 1.5 hour reading seminars between modules, which will be delivered online. Dates will be confirmed in advance of the programme.
Please note: dates and delivery may be subject to change.
Graduates from this course often develop their existing coaching practice to focus on systems-psychodynamic coaching with their new qualification, or set up a new coaching career as freelance coach.
They have also gone on to develop a coaching practice as an internal coach, for example working in an HR role and coaching within their organisation.
Why study with us?
This method of executive coaching will enable you to work at depth using emotional data to tackle the hard-to-reach issues that sometimes limit the performance of leaders, teams and organisations.
This programme and qualification can also be commissioned as a bespoke course to take place inside a client organisation or HR department.
Testimonials
Course facilitators
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Jennie McShannon
Programme Director
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Beth Neustadt
Programme Co-Director
Validations and accreditations
This programme is accredited at senior practitioner level by the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC).
Research and publications
The following publications have recently been produced by course faculty:
Digital material
- Cardona, Francesca, Neal, Ben, Vesey, Robyn and Roberts, Vega Zagier (2020) The relevance of the Tavistock model of consulting in the context of a crisis. (video; part one of two webinars)
- Neustadt, Elizabeth A., Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas & Furnham, Adrian (2011): Attachment at work and performance, Attachment & Human Development, 13:5, 471-488
- Vesey, Robyn (2021) Emotions in the workplace. Into the Unsaid, 20 Apr 2021 (podcast)
- Vesey, Robyn (2021) The screen in between: Five key questions about your coaching practice online (blog)
Register your interest
Applications are now closed. Register your interest and be the first to hear when this course reopens.