This ILM accredited course offers you the flexibility to study for your ILM qualification by attending half day online workshops while working with clients/volunteers, conducting your own guided reading and preparing assignments.

There are three mandatory units in this qualification. 

The first unit, 700 Understanding the Principles and Practice of Effective Coaching and Mentoring at an Executive or Senior Level  enables you to effectively contextualise coaching or mentoring practice at an executive or senior level. 

The second unit,  701 Undertaking Coaching or Mentoring at an Executive or Senior Level  will give you the tools and techniques to agree and establish a contract to coach or mentor individuals at an executive or senior level.

The third unit 703 Reflecting on Your Ability to Perform Effectively as a Coach or Mentor at an Executive or Senior Level will enable you to review your own ability to perform effectively as a coach or mentor at an executive or senior level. 

This ILM accredited course is delivered as a series of 10 online interactive webinars plus online study and library resources. This equates to 5 full days of training, individual and group supervisions sessions. 

The qualification is made up of three core modules that enable delegates to understand, develop and demonstrate the required levels of knowledge and skills to deliver effective coaching and mentoring.

The suggested study period is around 10 months, (including assessment of all three modules). This is dependent on the participant’s accessibility to coaching and mentoring clients to complete the required hours for the practical assessment.

This ILM accredited course offers you the flexibility to study for your ILM qualification by attending half day online workshops while working with clients/volunteers, conducting your own guided reading and preparing assignments.

There are three units in this qualification:

Unit 700: Understanding the Principles and Practice of Effective Coaching and Mentoring at an Executive or Senior Level. 

Unit 701: Understanding Coaching or Mentoring at an Executive or Senior Level.

Unit 703: Reflecting on Your Ability to Perform Effectively as a Coach or Mentor at an Executive or Senior Level.

5-8, 11-14 March 2024 (8 mornings via zoom)  or

17-21 June 2024 (face to face)

Stage 1 of Oxford Brookes Supervision Programme 

This programme in higher professional development (Coaching Supervision) leads to:

- Professional Certificate of Advanced Study in Coaching Supervision

- Professional Accreditation as an Oxford Brookes Supervisor 

This programme in coaching supervision is designed for experienced coaches with an active coaching practice who already have a postgraduate qualification in Coaching, Psychology, Counselling or equivalent. The aim of the programme is to provide highly experienced coaches with an opportunity to extend their competences and skills into the area of coaching supervision.

Stage 1: Two months preparation during which participants undertake preliminary reading, reflection, peer-supervision and supervision practice. Followed by an intensive programme of eight half days via zoom (March programme) or 5 days face to face in Oxford (June programme) which provides an opportunity for participants to develop their own model of supervision.

*** Your application form must be submitted and approved before purchase of stage 1  ***

Stage 2: Two sessions (1.5 hours each) or three sessions (1 hour each) of individual supervision from the programme tutors on your supervision that will start after the intensive course.

These sessions will allow participants to receive individualised developmental feedback on their model of coaching supervision in practice.

Stage 3: Assessment for Professional Certificate of Advanced Study in Coaching Supervision from Oxford Brookes University

The assessment consists of one written assignment: Description and analysis of the candidate’s model of coaching supervision.

Stage 4: Accreditation as an Oxford Brookes Coaching Supervisor.

This stage is conditional upon successful completion of the assessment at Stage 3 of the programme. It will consist of an additional assessment that includes a written portfolio with the candidate’s analysis of two video/audio tapes: one of their ‘best’ and one of their ‘worst’ supervision sessions and an interview.

Help to Grow Management Programme. A collaboration between HM Government, the Chartered Association of Business Schools, SBC and Oxford Brookes Business School. 

For SMEs, a 12 week programme to build expertise and boost confidence across key areas for senior leaders. 

The programme is 90% funded by the Government and the University has a Business Support fund that is funded in part by contributions from organisations we work with.

This enables us to offer programmes such as Help to Grow at no cost to participants.

However, if you would like to make a contribution so that other small businesses can take part in Business School activities, please make your contribution here.

This is a new programme designed to enhance your learning in Supervising Groups and Team Coaches. 

The cohort will consist of 8 people. You are eligible to participate if you have completed Stage 3 of the Professional Certificate of Advanced Study in Coaching Supervision, its predecessor programme - Postgraduate Certificate in Coaching Supervision or an alternative qualification (to be approved by the Programme Lead).

Some experience in team coaching will be required as you will need to bring one case of team coaching for the practice part of the programme.

The programme will start with one month's preparation period with a learning buddy. 

Please complete the application form on the Supervising Groups and Team Coaches website before purchasing your place on the programme

Stage 2 Supervision is run by one of the tutors and will be optional. It is not a prerequisite to Stage 3 This stage is preparatory for the submission of the assignment in Stage 3. These sessions will allow participants both to reflect on their ongoing supervision practice and to receive individualised feedback on the development of their model of Supervising Groups and Team Coaches.

The assessment consists of one 2000 word written assignment on how your current model of supervision can be adapted to supervision of groups and team coaches and will lead to a Certificate in Supervising Groups and Team Coaches.

Oxford Brookes Business School is excited to be launching a series of short courses aimed at upskilling business professionals. Short course participants will benefit by learning about current business research and practice, and will take away tools and actions to enable them to tackle key business and leadership challenges.

Some courses are delivered face to face on campus at Oxford Brookes University in Headington (9am-5pm). Other courses are delivered online (split days and times). 

Courses, dates and prices:

• Unlocking Strategic Innovation: Innovating for competitive advantage: 17 April 2024, one day in person, 9am-5pm (£250)
• Finance for Strategic Thinkers: 1 May & 8 May 2024, two half days online, 9am-12pm (£250)
• Sustainability for businesses: 30 April, 7 May, 14 May & 21 May 2024, four 90 minute sessions online, 12:30-2pm (£250)
• Business Improvement for Operational Excellence: 22 May 2024, one day in person, 9am-5pm (£250)
• Implementing Strategy: 5 June 2024, one day in person, 9am-5pm (£250)
• Leadership and change: 11 June 2024, one day in person, 9am-5pm (£300 - includes external diagnostic tool)

If you are interested in our Professional Education courses, please email [email protected]

Thursday 2 May 2024

9 am to 5 pm (UK Time) 

Hybrid format: Headington campus/online

Theme: Supervision: Philosophies, purpose and practices

Last year's theme was ‘Professional decision-making for supervision; supervision for professional decisionmaking'. In his keynote session, Prof Rob Briner shared a highly informative perspective on evidence-based practice and delegates enjoyed presentations from four continents. The theme for 2024 is ‘Philosophies, purpose and practices'. This is a framework with which many will be familiar and opens the field to discussion of critical questions such as why we practice in the ways that we do, what supervision is for and how it is situated in relation to our human experience.

As has become a tradition, we welcome equally submissions that are based on case-work, practices or research. Whichever strand the contribution sits within, each contribution should focus some attention to one or more of this year’s theme lenses of philosophy, purpose and practice. We might ask, what does a particular approach imply in terms of the supervisor’s intention? How might a general theoretical stance affect how we choose to practice?

The Network is a small and selected group of successful and growing scale up leaders who come together to explore common constraint issues, co-create solutions and maximise the impact of potential improvements.

They benefit from the knowledge and skills of Oxford Brookes Business School combined with external, professional, facilitated support over the course of a year.

This year it will be an an online/face-to-face hybrid so the location will be a mix of Zoom and the Headington Campus.

The course is intended to help you understand how to work as a coach with people who are diagnosed as neurodivergent or who appear to show traits associated with neurodivergence.  

At the end of the course, you will 

• Understand the typical strengths and difficulties  associated with common neurotypes

• Understand what is important in your coaching work to meet the needs of neurodivergent individuals

• Know what wider support is available 

The course consists of 3 X 3-hour online sessions spread over 5 months.  This will allow you to reflect on your learning, read around the topic and discuss your learning from one session to the next.  

There will be formal teaching inputs, exercises, case study material and some pre-reading.  A suggested biography will be provided for background reading while you are on the programme.