Coaching Lab – Level 1

Course Overview

The Coaching Lab is a 6-week supervised group coaching experience designed to give you practice and feedback about your coaching skills. You will work virtually with a group of 4-5 participants and an experienced coach educator who will guide your group through a series of exercises to practice "Level 1" skills: establishing a coaching agreement, forming strong client relationships, asking powerful questions, and communicating and listening effectively. In order to enroll in this course, you must have completed a minimum of 50 training hours in courses that have covered the process/practice of coaching and interpersonal relationship skills in coaching. We recommend "Coaching Tools for Transformation" and "Coaching Relationship Essentials," but similar courses may be substituted upon approval of our admissions team. Other prerequisites: Participants will need to complete the pre-work and submit an Individual Learning Plan (ILP) prior to starting the weekly coaching meetings.

Course Details

Who Should Attend

• Leaders and senior managers who want to become coaches or add coaching to their overall leadership toolkit. Note: All participants must have completed a minimum of 50 coach training hours (see overview).

Questions We Will Answer

• What does lifelong learning mean in the context of coach development?
• How effectively have I mastered the fundamental competencies for coaching?
• What are my coaching strengths?
• In what areas should I focus to build my coaching competencies?
• What does it look like and feel like to engage with wholeheartedness, directness, open-mindedness and responsibility as a reflective coach practitioner?

Benefits and Outcomes

• Give and receive feedback about fundamental coaching competencies with a small group of peers and from an expert coach.
• Focus your development on those areas where you have opportunities to thrive and grow as a coach.
• Expand your professional coaching network with others dedicated to lifelong learning.
• Engage effectively with clients to establish rapport, intimacy, and trust - and contract for successful coaching relationships.
• Monitor interpersonal presence, openness, and wholehearteness to perform as a reflective coach pratitioner.
• Build self-awareness to strengthen emotional self-regulation and embody the highest ethical standards.
• Use active listening and powerful questions to help clients planfully achieve their desired outcomes.
• Communicate obeservations in an honest, accurate, and respectful manner to cultivate client awareness.

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 22.25 PDCs for the SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP.

Course Certificate Requirements

• Attend and participate in all synchronous class sessions
• Complete all online modules, assignments, and quizzes in the time allotted (all in Canvas LMS except where otherwise indicated):
• Choose and submit your coaching topic
• Complete all coaching circles (practice: coaching, being a client, and offering observations)

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.