Benefits for individuals 

• Analyse the knowledge, skills, behaviours and practices required for effective and ethical coaching and mentoring at the senior and strategic level
• Raise your awareness of the complexities of operating at this level
• Practice your senior and executive coaching and mentoring skills through participation in observed coaching or mentoring sessions
• Explore and benchmark your offer as a freelance coach or mentor
• Deepen your reflective and reflexive practice as a coach or mentor

Benefits for employers

• Implement coaching in complex working environments or at a strategic level in your organisation
• Ensure your organisations coaches and mentors are properly equipped to operate as safe, ethical and effective practitioners with your most senior people
• Create a coaching and mentoring culture where senior managers and leaders demonstrate their commitment to supporting their won and others’ development and performance improvement

Daily Programme Structure

The CHTC ‘Coaching & Mentoring at the Strategic Level’ programme leads to an Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM) Level 7 Qualification in Executive or Senior Level Coaching and Mentoring.

Learners can choose two qualification pathways.

Pathway 1 – Level 7 Certificate

• 14-credits
• Three mandatory units
• 20-hours of coaching or mentoring with a minimum or 2 and a maximum of 3 clients

Pathway 2 – Level 7 Diploma

• 37-credits
• Three mandatory units
• 60-hours of coaching or mentoring with a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 9 clients

The estimated Total Qualification Time (TQT) for the Certificate pathway is 138 hours

The estimated Total Qualification Time (TQT) for the Diploma pathways is 368 hours

TQT represents the total amount of time it is anticipated it will take you to gain the qualification. TQT includes:

• Pre-course work
• Inter-module activity
• Classroom / virtual classroom attendance time
• Tutorials
• Coaching / mentoring client sessions
• Reflection and journalling
• Supervision
• Assignment writing
• Undertaking your own reading and research
• Peer group discussions

Additional Benefits

Dual Accreditation

CHTC have worked with the Association for Coaching (AC) and have had our ILM Level 7 programmes dual accredited by the AC.

This means that once you receive your certificate from the ILM you will automatically have attained the standard required to be awarded a qualification from the AC.

Association for Coaching (AC) Membership

As CHTC is a provider member for the Association for Coaching (AC) we are delighted to announce that you are entitled to a one-year Introductory Associate Membership with the AC.

Once you have completed the classroom / virtual classroom phase of your coach training you will receive a link which will take you to your complimentary AC membership.

European Mentoring & Coaching Council (EMCC) Membership

The ILM have partnered with the EMCC UK to provide membership and benefits.

ILM learners are entitled to a 25% discounted membership whilst participating in any ILM coaching and mentoring qualification for up to three years or until their qualification is complete.

Follow the link below to see more information on the EMCC website.

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The Association for Coaching's (AC) continuous professional development Hours Scheme is designed to recognise the hours for ongoing professional development.

This Scheme is specially created for practitioners and Leader Coaches and organisations offering ongoing learning and development. This allows participants to evidence the hours invested in ongoing professional development. This may apply to courses, workshops, certifications, webinars and events which can be used towards CPD elements of AC accreditation and other related programmes.

The Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual) regulates qualifications, examinations and assessments in England.

For your convenience, we provide the related OFQUAL Qualification numbers and links the the gov.uk website where this data is maintained. From that page,  the awarding organisation may be confirmed and access to the relevent specification is also provided.

Tutorials are designed to support you to complete the assessment / assignment elements of your selected qualification.

Tutorials are led by one of the ChTC team and are there for you to use in whatever ways best suits your personal learning approach and style.

Ways Our Learners Use Their Tutorials

• To get some initial support with their thinking ahead of starting to write an assignment.
• To get motivated to start writing their assignments.
• To discuss something they are stuck on or where they are unclear as to what the is required from a particular AC.
• To get the tutor or groups view about the work they have done to date and its readiness for assessment.
• To discuss feedback received from an assessor regarding one or more AC that has been referred rather than passed.

Each assessed piece of work required for the successful attainment of your qualification, including written assignments are broken down into “assessment criteria”, sometimes referred to as an AC. When completing an assessed piece of work, you are required to show understanding, awareness and evidence against each AC.

From early 2025 ChTC learners will also be able to access video tutorials for specific AC areas.

Supervision is a mandatory aspect of any accredited coaching qualification undertaken with ChTC; however, coach supervision offers so much more than a ‘tick box’ for the successful attainment of your qualification.

Coach supervision is about your professional practice as a coach. Supervision is the place that coaches go to reflect upon and discuss their coaching practice and ensure they operate effectively, ethically and safely. Supervision is where coaches can discuss anything and everything related to their coaching practice.

Attending a ChTC coach training programme gives you access to group supervision sessions facilitated by one of our experienced and trained team. The tutorial time included in your ChTC programme will always match and in the majority of cases exceeds the supervision hours required to achieve your chosen qualification.

Supervisions are run as small group sessions are each one is two-hours in duration.