This isn't just for leaders. Whether someone manages a team, mentors colleagues, supports clients, or simply wants to coach others to be their best — this programme gives them the skills, models, and confidence to transform performance through powerful coaching conversations. No prior coaching experience required.
From the shop floor to the boardroom — coaching skills belong everywhere in your organisation
Move from telling to asking. Learn to hold coaching conversations that build trust, empower your team, and drive genuine accountability — at every level of the organisation.
Add professional coaching to your toolkit. Whether you're supporting talent development, managing performance, or driving culture change — coaching skills amplify everything you do.
Dreaming of a coaching career? This programme gives you a nationally recognised qualification, supervised practice hours, and professional body alignment — your launchpad into coaching.
Already mentoring colleagues, supporting clients, or guiding others informally? Formalise your skills with proven models, ethical frameworks, and a professional qualification.
Technical experts, trainers, and project leads who want to develop others without doing the work for them. Coaching skills turn your expertise into lasting capability in those around you.
If your role involves helping people grow — whether that's clients, colleagues, direct reports, or community members — this programme gives you the professional framework to do it brilliantly.
Organisations with a strong coaching culture report significantly higher employee engagement, improved retention, and stronger pipelines at every level. Coaching doesn't just develop individuals — it transforms the way your entire business communicates, collaborates, and performs.
Enhance your apprenticeship with a globally recognised qualification and international coaching community
The apprenticeship is a powerful programme in its own right. But for learners who want to go further, we offer the ILM Level 5 Certificate in Effective Coaching and Mentoring as an optional add-on, plus access to EMCC Global individual membership. These extras set your people apart with credentials recognised by employers and professional bodies worldwide.
The gold standard for coaching professionals. Available as an optional upgrade alongside your apprenticeship, this qualification develops your ability to design, deliver, and evaluate coaching interventions within organisational settings. It equips you with evidence-based coaching models, ethical frameworks, and the reflective practice needed to become a truly effective coach.
Aligned to the European Mentoring & Coaching Council's competency framework. Builds toward Accredited Coaching Practitioner status.
Programme content maps to International Coaching Federation competencies. Supports progression toward ACC accreditation.
Aligned with the Association for Coaching standards. A stepping stone toward professional Accredited Coach recognition.
Our coaching workshops are rated 9.8 out of 10 across over 100 learner reviews. That's not a target — it's what learners consistently tell us after experiencing the programme. Combine that with optional ILM certification and EMCC membership, and your people get an apprenticeship experience that goes far beyond the standard.
Understand coaching as a professional discipline — in leadership, in support roles, and in every conversation where you help someone grow. Explore how non-directive approaches build trust and drive performance.
Develop deep self-awareness using models like the Johari Window. Understand how your values, biases, and emotional patterns shape your coaching — and learn to harness them.
Build your personal coaching philosophy grounded in ethical practice, professional boundaries, and the values that underpin trust in every coaching relationship.
Master proven frameworks — GROW, OSKAR, Thinking Environment, CLEAR — and learn when to deploy each. Set powerful goals using visualisation, SMART objectives, and motivational techniques.
Assess coaching needs, design interventions, and monitor progress using structured evaluation techniques. Measure the impact and ROI of your coaching practice.
Go deeper with NLP, cognitive behavioural coaching, solutions-focused approaches, and emotional intelligence frameworks. Expand your toolkit for complex coaching scenarios.
Develop skills for peer-to-peer coaching circles, group coaching, and coaching in specialist contexts. Build coaching capacity across your organisation — at every level, in every team.
Master contracting, trust-building, and stakeholder management. Learn to evaluate coaching effectiveness and communicate value to sponsors, managers, and boards.
Embed coaching into organisational culture. Navigate data protection, equality legislation, and ethical governance. Build a sustainable coaching framework that lasts.
Accumulate real coaching hours with diverse coachees. Engage in regular coaching supervision sessions and maintain a reflective journal — essential for professional body recognition.
For learners who want a formal coaching qualification alongside the apprenticeship. ILM assessment preparation is woven into the programme so it complements — never competes with — the core learning.
Comprehensive preparation for all three EPA components: knowledge test, observed coaching sessions with Q&A, and the portfolio-backed professional interview. Gateway readiness review included.
Onboarding, initial coaching skills assessment, understanding coaching within leadership, and building deep self-awareness. Establishing the mindset and values that underpin exceptional coaching.
Mastering GROW, OSKAR, and Thinking Environment models. Goal setting, coaching behaviours, and beginning supervised coaching practice. ILM assessment work begins.
Coaching needs assessment, NLP and cognitive behavioural approaches, solutions-focused coaching, and emotional intelligence frameworks. Building your advanced coaching toolkit.
Executive and peer coaching, stakeholder engagement, organisational coaching culture, data protection, and legislation. Optional ILM Level 5 assessment work for those enrolled.
Consolidate coaching hours, complete reflective journal, finalise portfolio evidence. Demonstrate commercial impact. Full gateway readiness review.
Gateway sign-off, then formal EPA across three components: Knowledge Test, Observation with Q&A, and Interview Supported by Portfolio. Graded Pass or Distinction.
Three-component EPA — rigorous, authentic, and designed to showcase real coaching capability. Grades: Pass or Distinction.
40 multiple-choice questions completed online. Assesses understanding of coaching theories, ethical frameworks, models, and organisational context — the intellectual foundation of professional coaching.
Two live, one-hour coaching sessions with different individuals, observed by an independent assessor. Followed by a 20-minute question-and-answer session. The ultimate test of real-world coaching ability.
A 60-minute professional interview with an independent End-Point Assessor, using a minimum of 9 questions. Apprentices can draw on their Portfolio of Evidence — built throughout the entire programme.
Apprentices are graded Pass or Distinction. Our comprehensive EPA preparation — including mock coaching observations and interview rehearsals — ensures every learner enters assessment with confidence.
Every learner receives a dedicated skills coach, regular 1-to-1 progress reviews, coaching supervision sessions, access to our digital learning platform, and employer engagement to ensure coaching practice drives genuine workplace impact.
Our coaching workshops are consistently rated 9.8 out of 10 by learners. Over 100 reviews and counting. That's not marketing — it's what people say after they experience the training.
Independently verified quality plus exceptional learner satisfaction across every programme. Consistently among the best-rated training providers in the UK.
Add the prestigious ILM Level 5 Certificate in Effective Coaching & Mentoring to your apprenticeship. A globally recognised qualification — available as an optional upgrade.
We can arrange EMCC Global individual membership for your learners at a small additional fee. Access a worldwide network of coaching professionals, CPD resources, events, and a pathway to formal EMCC accreditation.
Programme content is aligned to the competency frameworks of the EMCC, ICF, and Association for Coaching — giving graduates a head start toward formal professional accreditation.
"I didn't come into this as a manager — I'm in L&D. But this programme completely changed how I have conversations. I coach colleagues, support new starters, and I now have a professional qualification that's opened doors I never expected."
Fully funded through the Apprenticeship Levy or government co-investment. Develop your people as professional coaches — regardless of their role — and watch engagement, performance, and retention transform.
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