Becoming a Reflective Coach Practitioner

Course Overview

In this course, you will complete an array of self-assessments, including the scientifically validated Hogan Leadership Series personality survey, and engage in exercises that result in deeper self-insight for the purpose of identifying your coaching strengths and development opportunities.

You will learn how to create a learning plan that helps you leverage your strengths and confront challenges you might face as a coach. This course will address questions such as: how is coaching different from other one-on-one developmental interactions; what is the connection between personality and coaching; how can you begin to develop your story as a coach, and why does it matter?

Course Details

Who Should Attend

• Leaders and senior managers who want to become coaches or add coaching to their overall leadership toolkit.
• Experienced coaches seeking to expand self-awareness and develop as reflective coach practitioners.

Questions We Will Answer

• How can I leverage my personality traits and my preferences to be an excellent coach?
• In what ways could my personality and preferences interfere with coaching excellence?
• What does it mean to develop my "self-as-coach" competencies, and what should be my priorities?
• What is an individual learning plan, and how is it used in coaching for individual transformation?
• What are the differences between coaching, mentoring, consulting, advising, and therapy?
• What is a narrative identity, what roles can it play in coaching, and how can it accelerate individual development?

Benefits and Outcomes

Learn what is required to develop as a professional coach and receive one-on-one coaching about how to leverage your personality traits and preferences to be an excellent coach. By participating in this course, you will learn how to:

• Explain how personality and preferences might enhance or interfere with coaching excellence.
• Identify coaching competencies and which ones are developmental priorities for you.
• Create an individual learning plan to be used in coaching for individual transformation..
• Explain the differences between coaching, mentoring, consulting, advising, and therapy.
• Explain the role that narrative identity can play in coaching, and how it might be used to accelerate individual development.
• Identify personal values and their connections with ethical practice in coaching.

Earn Continuing Education Credit

ELOC is recognized by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP. This program is valid for 15.5 PDCs for the SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP.

Course Certificate Requirements

• Complete all online modules, assignments, and quizzes in the time allotted (all in Canvas LMS except where otherwise indicated).
• Coach Preparation Survey (in Qualtrics)
• Coaching Competency Self-Assessment
• Discovering Your Story Assignment
• Hogan Assessments (three surveys – or submit recent Hogan reports)
• Schedule and complete a 2-hour Hogan debrief meeting with an ELOC Coach Educator
• First draft of your Individual Learning Plan (ILP)
• Final draft of your Individual Learning Plan (ILP)
• ELOC Coach Educator approves final ILP

Instructors

Michelle Albaugh

Michelle Albaugh, Associate Director of Coaching in the Master's and Executive Programs in Learning and Organizational Change (ELOC & MSLOC), is a seasoned executive coach who has coached senior leaders in marketing/analytics, operations, finance, medicine, and law - as well as entrepreneurs, and emering high potential leaders. She holds a PhD in Human Development and Social Policy and leverages this interdisciplinary background to deliver a powerful synthesis of research-backed insights and practical coaching strategies, fostering transformative learning and growth.