CMI Level 5
Level 5Develop powerful team coaching skills to drive performance, build trust, and embed a coaching culture across your organisation.
This qualification is designed to provide an overview of team coaching for professional coaches. This qualification will provide skills and knowledge to enable professional coaches to deliver impact, behave ethically and demonstrate a commitment to continual learning and development. Designed for practising or aspiring Professional Coaches, who have the ability to apply their learning, to develop their skills in this area and/or progress onto further learning.
Those who want to develop a coaching leadership style to improve team engagement, performance, and accountability.
HR professionals who want to coach teams through change and performance conversations more effectively.
Learning and development practitioners who want to add team coaching to their professional toolkit.
CMI does not specify entry requirements for these qualifications, but Centres are required to ensure that Learners admitted to the programme have sufficient capability at the right level to undertake the learning and assessment.
CMI Centres must ensure Learners are recruited with integrity onto appropriate qualifications that will:
● meet their needs
● enable and facilitate learning and achievement
● enable progression
In order to achieve this, the CMI Centre will need to:
● provide relevant programme information, guidance and advice, to enable informed Learner choice
● publish entry and selection criteria
● demonstrate that Learners are recruited with integrity
● carry out comprehensive
Learner induction that:
1. addresses programme and organisational requirements
2. explains Learner facilities
3. identifies Learners’ development needs
4. develops an Individual Learning Plan
The qualification is offered in the medium of the English Language.
The criteria of the assessment of a CMI qualification will be to meet the assessment criteria detailed within each individual unit.
The primary interface with the Learner is the Assessor whose job it is to assess the evidence presented by the Learner.
The Assessor should provide an audit trail showing how the judgement of the Learner’s overall achievement has been arrived at.
CMI Centres are encouraged to use a range of methods to ensure that all the learning outcomes and assessment criteria are met, and to enhance Learners’ development. Assessment methods can include:
Individual coaching focuses on one person’s goals. Team coaching works with the whole team as a system building collective capability and aligning the team around shared goals.
No prior coaching qualifications are required, though some management or HR experience is beneficial.
Through practical coaching assignments and reflective evidence from real team coaching sessions.
Completion supports application for Member-grade (MCMI) with the CMI.
CMI Level 5
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