Formal post-graduate executive coaching qualifications in tandem with our extensive experience is adding valuable scope to our coaching skills

Sheppard Moscow consultants’ strong academic qualifications and extensive coaching experience have been bringing about significant positive changes for our clients for many years now. Historically, accreditation has not been required within the sector, however with demand for coaching growing considerably, we decided to formalise our capabilities both to expand the support we offer our clients and to underline our commitment to the highest professional standards of work.

Greater support for clients

Attained by our London-based consultants (and planned for extensive adoption throughout the businesses), the qualification has enabled us to broaden our coaching approaches to meet diverse client needs, bring a greater range of skills into play and deliver even more transformational change capability. The course also provided an important opportunity for us to go through training as a group. By coaching each other as well as demonstrating coaching in real and challenging situations, we have gained much deeper insight into client experiences.

The qualification we have attained is a Post Graduate Certificate in Business and Executive Coaching, backed by Leeds Metropolitan University Business School and the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC). Delivered by Peter Bluckert Coaching, the in-depth course combined hands-on learning with a strong theoretical underpinning and comprised 16 days of workshops over seven months, three written assignments and 60 hours of supervised client coaching in real situations.

Best practice in coaching through permanent and ongoing review and support has always been part of our culture. This has now been formalised as part of our accreditation, with each consultant meeting regularly with external supervisors.

What our consultants say

“The qualification has really increased my confidence to use my personal experiences of interacting with a coachee as a powerful means of revealing the strong patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving that they have and that may be limiting their potential. Also, I now have a sound understanding of several psychological models, which I can use to help me choose the most appropriate approach, and I have found my coaching has had more variety since the programme.”
Liz Credé

“By understanding more about the change process and the stages people go through - specifically the delaying or stalling stage - my coaching interventions are now more tuned into working with this phase and knowing what to do to help managers make the changes they say they want to make but don't seem to be able to. I also learned how to help senior executives in potential burnout manage their boundaries better through using self support and becoming more conscious of the process of self efficacy.”
Ally Salisbury

“Following the training, I’m now much more prepared to take risks in my coaching in order to support my client’s growth. This means being completely honest, not just about what I see and hear my clients describe about their personal and professional situations but also about my own personal experience of them. This means that we are able to work in the moment with live material, which often helps my client move forward more quickly. I also find that, because I demonstrate a willingness to get involved directly with my client rather than hover on the sidelines, it deepens our working relationship allowing for other more significant shifts.”
Sandra Hilton

“I’ve learned a huge amount doing the coaching course. One thing in particular is to keep contracting and re-contracting with the client all the way through coaching, signalling that they can choose which direction to go in and evaluating whether what’s happening in the coaching is effective or not. This gives me a lot more freedom to change tack at the time if something isn’t helpful and allows me to be more experimental and creative in my coaching. It also gives me more awareness of whether my coaching is useful or not, and puts the coachee firmly in the driving seat.”
Anne Owen

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