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| Duration: 8 Months | |
| Schedule: Part-time | |
| Starting: October 2010 | |
| Fees: €12,500 | |
| Programme Director: Peter Bluckert |
"I found the Diploma in Business & Executive coaching programme to be hugely beneficial. The overall experience was transformative; allowing me a real opportunity for personal development as well as significantly strengthening my capability to help my clients, both in individual coaching as well as my facilitation of learning programmes. I also had the privilege of studying with a wonderful group of professional people and I'm sure I will benefit from involvement in that network for many years to come."
Aodan Enright, Smarter Egg - Facilitated Learning & Executive Coaching
"Starting out on the diploma programme my primary aim was to achieve excellence as a practitioner of Business and Executive Coaching. I had worked for many years in international corporate roles and was looking forward to an academic challenge as it had been a number of years since I had completed my primary degree. I looked at what was 'out there' in terms of post graduate programmes and I liked the mix (theory and practical business application) offered by UCD Smurfit School. What I hadn't reckoned with, was the extraordinary opportunity in terms of personal development that this programme would offer. That has been a real added bonus. I can recommend the programme by saying I would do it all over again!"
Aoife Killeen, Business & Executive Coach, Killeen Executive Coaching
(Former European Financial Systems Training Manager, Pfizer)
"From a personal perspective it was singularly the best self development process I have ever undertaken. From a management perspective it is a higher diploma course which gives a bigger bang for the buck than more conventional management development programmes. Executive Coaching is the coming dispensation – miss this programme at your peril."
Frank Kelly, Head of Human Resources, Dublin City Council
"This is a truly excellent programme - it's both academic and practical and it facilitates a huge amount of personal growth, learning and skills development for participants. Anyone looking at becoming a coach or if you are like myself and looking at coaching interventions on behalf of an organisation would benefit both personally and professionally from participating in this programme."
Elaine McGleenan, Head of Learning & Organisational Development, KPMG
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Peter Bluckert Programme Director, Diploma in Business & Executive Coaching |
| “The content and approach of the programme has a strong psychological orientation..” | |