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Executive Coaching Courses

The IEC and CPM partnership has developed a range of products specifically designed for the Public Sector market and is aimed at supporting participants through the APS Leadership Journey.

Developing a coaching approach within the workplace has the capacity to unlock untapped potential across all staff levels. Building internal coaching capabilities is increasingly recognised as one of the most effective ways to create dynamic organisations able to adapt to challenges and opportunities in a complex global environment. Recent Australian research has shown coaching to improve individual resilience, goal attainment, workplace and subjective wellbeing, performance, communication and relationships. All of these then influence engagement and retention rates.

Coaching Skills for Leaders

Coaching Skills for Leaders is a one or two day program that is designed for Executive Level and Senior Executive Staff. This program is designed to introduce the concept of coaching and mentoring skills with the aim of improving management and leadership across the public service. This program can be tailored for staff at the EL1, EL2 and Senior Executive levels, with programs also suitable for a combination of levels. The program can be delivered on client premises or at the CPM Training Centre.

Senior Executive Coaching Forum

Executive engagement is seen as a key contributor to the success of any development program. The Senior Executive Coaching Forum aims to provide the SES with an understanding of coaching skills and the benefits of building a coaching culture, how it fits with leadership development and the responsibility they have as part of their SES roles. These forums can be provided in a half day or full day format. This Forum is very useful for providing senior executives with the key concepts to support staff at lower levels who have completed the Coaching Skills for Leaders program. It ensures that staff at all levels develop a common language and approach, while recognising the time constraints and pressures senior executives experience.

Team or Group Coaching

Team and group coaching is becoming increasingly popular as a cost effective way of coaching across any level. Team or Group coaching delivers value in working with existing teams to address particular issues, or across established working groups to foster communication and collaborative effort across the organisation. This approach has been successfully used with Senior Executive groups to foster a team approach at the highest levels, resulting in significant benefits across the organisation. 

Executive Coaching

Finally, we can also offer an Executive Coaching service to work with individuals at any level to improve management and leadership capability.

For more information please contact IEC Canberra Client Service Manager Dani French on 02 8270 0632 or Kate Neser at CPM on 02 6163 0500.

More about the IEC/CPM Partnership

The Institute of Executive Coaching (IEC) and The Centre for Public Management (CPM) have established a strategic partnership between the two organisations to provide executive coaching services to the public sector market.

This partnership combines and capitalises on the strength and credibility CPM has in the Canberra public sector market, with the IEC's significant authority and expertise in the coaching arena. This has the potential to provide superior public sector focused coaching services to our clients.

CPM is a leading provider of management and leadership development programs to the public sector and has been operating in the Canberra market for twenty years. CPM’s expertise is in the delivery of high quality programs and services with a focus on meeting client’s needs. The programs build management and leadership capability in the public sector through a focus on understanding people and improving individual performance.

The IEC is widely recognised as one of the leading providers of coaching and coach training across the Asia Pacific region. IEC focuses on a very practical and experiential approach to coaching, utilising generative and social learning theories. This approach maintains that for learning to be meaningful and "sticky", it needs to integrate with a learner’s existing knowledge base and mental models and this type of learning occurs in relationship with others.

Our People

Our coaches and facilitators are world class and highly experienced in holding the learning space, managing the learning relationship and maintaining the content flow of the workshop. We have strict professional standards to which any coach or facilitator working for us must adhere. 

John Raymond is one of the IEC's most experienced coaches and coaching skills trainers, drawing on broad experience and studies in the human development arena including a Master of Applied Science (Coaching Psychology).He has held leadership positions in businesses and industry and continues his commitment to professionalism as immediate past President of the Australasian Chapter of the International Coach Federation. John’s value is his ability to combine an academic understanding of individual and team performance, his years of on the ground experience and his enthusiasm and passion to deliver a memorable and effective learning experience. Over the past 5 years he has worked with many agencies across the APS and all levels from APS to ELs and SES including ANAO, AFP, ATO, DEEWR, FAHCSIA, Centrelink (DHS), RET and Defence. He builds rapport quickly with all size groups creating a sound learning environment where participants feel safe to reflect, explore, share, challenge and engage in productive ways.

John Matthews is a co-founder and Master Coach of the Institute of Executive Coaching, and is one of the leading executive coaches in Australia. His experience includes having coached several Australian Federal Department Secretaries, and he is currently working with several APS clients including the AFP and the ANAO. As a facilitator and key-note speaker John has an engaging presentation style, earning the respect of his audience by challenging and holding participants accountable for their own learning in a compassionate and inspiring way.

Drew Baker is General Manager of CPM and has over 10 years’ experience in the APS, including four years at the SES level. Drew is a senior facilitator on many of CPM’s leadership programs and his key areas of interest are leadership development for Executive Level staff, strategic planning and career management.