*** For Immediate Release ***
(New York - July 15, 2014) Partners in Human Resources International announced today that John Hoover, PhD, a thought leader with
the Talent Consulting firm since 2006, will teach a new online graduate course titled Managing the Coaching Function in Organizations
this fall through Fielding Graduate University (FGU) based in Santa Barbara, California. Hoover authored the curriculum based on the
underpinning theories of his 2009 book from Amacom, The Coaching Connection (co-authored with Dr. Paul Gorrell).
Managing the Coaching Function in Organizations is the anchor in a three-course graduate certificate by the same name that will
prepare students—mostly corporate Human Resources managers, directors, and vice presidents—to gain a deeper understanding of
how executive coaching can simultaneously support growth and development of individual employees and attainment of overarching
organizational goals—all the while promoting the corporate strategic agenda.
“Executive coaching is among the most expensive growth and development investments an organization makes in its senior executives
and emerging high-potential leaders,” Hoover said. “It’s critical for both the individual coaching client’s success, as well as the
organization’s overall success, that executive coaching be conducted through the lens of the organization. The executive being
coached and the organization paying for the coaching,” Hoover continued, “must be treated as co-clients to ensure that what
individuals do best is fully aligned with what organizations need most.”
As far as Hoover and the Director of the FGU Organizational Leadership and Development program, Dr. Marcella Benson-Quaziena,
are aware, Managing the Coaching Function in Organizations is the first certificate of its kind to deal with the craft of executive
coaching from the perspective of the person inside the organization tasked with designing, operating, and sustaining a corporate
coaching practice and overseeing the work of internal and external executive coaches in the context of the organization.
Students enrolled in Managing the Coaching Function in Organizations will engage in an online environment that is intimate, thoughtprovoking, and motivating. They will master a challenging curriculum and build a deep sense of community and shared learning with
immense practical value as they:
1. Explore how the underpinning concepts of human and organization development can be operationalized through coaching
engagements that are deliberately designed to build the leaders who are expected to build the business.
2. Understand how organizational theory and research converges with coaching techniques and applications to form a more
mindful and strategic use of coaching as an organization development opportunity.
3. Develop leadership skills to manage an organizational coaching function with the blended vocabulary of coaching and
organization development that will enable meaningful dialogue with organizational planners as well as external coaches.
4. Acquire practical strategies for designing and implementing coach reporting systems and enterprise-wide data analysis that
expands institutional knowledge and increases return on investment—all without compromising confidentiality.
“The voice of the organization is often lost in executive coaching engagements when the coach and coaching client disappear behind a
curtain of confidentiality,” Hoover went on to say. “We encourage the honoring of confidentiality and other best practices of coaching,
including the 11 core coaching competencies as defined by the International Coach Federation. But, without an intentional and
deliberate, well-conceived strategy for keeping the organization’s voice and interests alive and aligned in the coaching conversation,
the coach and coaching client usually re-emerge six-months, twelve-months, or longer after the coaching engagement launch with little
or no accountability for how the organization and even the individual benefited from the engagement the organization just paid for.”
Coaching Certificate programs the world over are graduating a steady stream of trained executive coaches. Until now, there has not
been corresponding preparation for those on the corporate side who hire coaches and must manage coaching engagements in a way
that aligns the growth and development needs of individual coaching clients and teams being coached with the strategic agenda of
their organizations.
The Managing the Coaching Function in Organizations certificate will introduce organizational coaching function managers to theories,
methods, and techniques enabling them to design and operate organizational coaching functions through an Organization
Development lens; thus ensuring that coaching engagements, which are sponsored and paid for by an organization for the purpose of
developing, correcting, or enhancing management and/or leadership skills and behaviors in individuals and groups, will be contextually
aligned with the sponsoring organization’s talent, leadership, and global business strategies and will produce maximum and mutual
return on investment for individuals or groups receiving coaching as well as the sponsoring organization.
Academic and Professional Credits
Each of the three courses in the certificate, ODL-650A (Evidence Based Coaching Overview), ODL-652A (Leadership & Organizational
Coaching Skills), and ODL-623 (Managing the Coaching Function in Organizations) accrues 4 graduate semester hours that can be
applied to the FGU Masters Degree in Organization Development & Leadership. Each of the three courses also accrues 32
Continuous Coaching Education Hours through the International Coach Federation.
L-R: Judy Stevens-Long, PhD, Fielding Graduate University (FGU) faculty and Chair of the Student Affairs Sub-Committee of the FGU Senate
Leadership Committee; John Hoover, PhD, Senior Vice President, Partners International and FGU adjunct faculty teaching Managing the Coaching
Function in Organizations; and Marcella Bensen-Quaziena, PhD, FGU faculty and Director of the Organizational Leadership and Development
Program that hosts the new ODL certificate.
For more information, contact [email protected].
ODL-650A Evidence Based Coaching: Overview, 4 semester credits
This course covers the theoretical foundations from which coaching has developed: theories of psychology, communication,
adult development, organizational systems, and social psychology. This course equates as 32 coach training hours from ICF.
CCEUs: 32
ODL-652A Leadership & Organizational Coaching Skills, 4 semester credits
This 12 week online course covers all aspects of coaching within organizations, including leadership development, aligning
coaching with business strategy, defining the role of the internal coach, coaching for leadership performance in organizations,
coaching teams, and organizational coaching via phone and online. This course equates as 32 coach training hours from ICF.
CCEUs: 32
ODL-623 Managing the Coaching Function in Organizations, 4 semester credits
This 12 week online course covers the systems and organization development dimensions of managing an internal corporate
coaching practice; managing both internal and external coaches to ensure that the coaching client and the sponsoring
organization both derive maximum return, in dollars and individual and organization development, on the coaching investment.
Topics include coaching engagement reporting systems, contracts, coaching engagement design, and contextual alignment
between the coaching function and the corporate business strategy.
This course equates as XX coach training hours from ICF.
CCEUs: 32
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