Organizational Consulting & Executive Coaching Concentration Cohort 3 (2011-2013)

Year 1: Fall 2011

Saturday, September 10 - 9:00 am - New Student Orientation
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Saturday, September 10 - 10:30 am - Annual Student Brunch
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September 11-16: DYNM 720: Foundations of Organizational Consulting and Executive Coaching
This intensive course not only provides experientially the intellectual and practical core of every subsequent course, but also facilitates the creation of the cohesive community that is so fundamental to this program. Here, the cohort itself is the source of the learning that occurs, as participants learn to assess needs in the moment, provide critical insight and practical strategies in a wide range of situations, and personally reflect on the professional and personal work they have done. [1 CU]

OCEC students should arrive for this 5-day retreat (with casual clothing and personal supplies) in time for dinner (5:30 pm) on Sunday, September 11 at the National Christian Conference Center located at 1485 Valley Forge Road, Valley Forge, PA 19481: OCEC students will depart by 6:00 pm on Friday, September 16.

DYNM 722: Making Meaning from Organizational Experience and Establishing Frameworks for Consulting and Coaching
The cohort will reconvene to collectively “unwrap” the five-day intensive. Using their journals and observations, participants learn how to apply relevant theory and concepts to make meaning of their experiences and to analyze and interpret behavior at multiple levels. Then using their knowledge of applying theory to practical experience, participants are ready to develop a theory-guided consulting and coaching framework. They research, present, and apply a framework of their own choosing. [1 CU]

Year 1: Spring 2012

DYNM 723: Consulting and Coaching Process: Knowing Yourself—Coach as an Instrument of Change
Participants learn to be coaches by being coaches to one another. Over a two-month period, cohort members expand their repertoire of skills and tools, share their experiences, and together scrutinize the client/coach relationship. [1 CU]

DYNM 724: Consulting/Coaching Tools and Techniques
Expanding their newly acquired skills, cohort members build tools and techniques for effective consulting and coaching as a leadership competency within organizational settings. Participants learn the “how” and “why” as well as the “how” of implementing courses of action. [1 CU]

Year 1: Summer 2012

DYNM 725: Interpretation and Problem-Solving and Managing Conflict
Participants explore sources of problems and conflict, identify the range of choices for resolution, and spend time in the field identifying and resolving conflicts at the personal and team level. [1 CU]

DYNM 726: Expanding Consulting/Coaching Tools and Skills
Competencies are expanded into more complex aspects of team and organizational change. Having experienced the art of design at a micro level, they now examine it as a means of enhancing larger system change. The cohort explores the nature of system change and how it relates to changing teams and individuals. [1 CU]

Note: This course will also include a 4-day/3-night retreat. OCEC students should arrive (with casual clothing and personal supplies) in time for dinner (5:30 pm) on Thursday, August 9 at the National Christian Conference Center located at 1485 Valley Forge Road, Valley Forge, PA 19481: OCEC students will depart Sunday, August 12.

Year 2: Fall 2012

DYNM 727: Practicum Experience in Consulting and Coaching
Participants integrate everything they have learned by contracting with a client to provide consulting/coaching services. Individual supervision is provided on a weekly basis by a core faculty member and peer supervision is provided in two clinics, where cohort members share their experiences and learning with one another and, at the conclusion of the second clinic, bid the cohort farewell as members are now ready for their internship experiences. [1 CU]

DYNM 728: Organizational Consulting Internship
In this course, each participant is exposed to a variety of organizational consulting opportunities designed to enable them to utilize their skills in multiple situations and contexts. Access to an advisor/coach during this period ensures that each participant’s advanced learning will be provided in a timely and individualized manner. [1 CU]

Year 2: Spring 2013

DYNM 729: Executive Coaching Internship
In this course, each participant is exposed to a variety of executive coaching opportunities designed to enable them to utilize their skills in multiple situations and contexts. Access to an advisor/coach during this period ensures that each participant’s advanced learning will be provided in a timely and individualized manner. [1 CU]

DYNM 730: Capstone Portfolio Preparation and Proposal
In this course, students demonstrate their consulting and coaching mastery and scholarship by creating their capstone/thesis summary proposal. Throughout the program, participants will have systematically codified their learning experiences through the delivery and accumulation of various papers, project results, and other measures of performance. These will be contained in a Personal Portfolio which includes a record of understanding the assigned literature and classroom-based theory and experiences. In addition, each individual’s personal coaching philosophy is framed in a theoretical model developed over the course of the program. Personal reflections and insights are an essential aspect of the ongoing record of learning. Using all of these as source material, the participant writes and assembles a full case history drawn from the Practicum (DYNM 727) and the Internships (DYNM 728 and DYNM 729). [1 CU]

Integrated Scholarship: Project Courses

DYNM 645-072: Project Course: Capstone Portfolio Delivery
In this project course, students demonstrate their consulting and coaching mastery and scholarship by completing and delivering their capstone/thesis based on the preparation and proposal submitted in DYNM 730. Students use a theoretical model to analyze the case, evaluate the outcomes using an evidence-based assessment, and write a personal reflection on the use of self as an instrument. The capstone (in APA publication format) is presented and defended as a distinctive contribution to consulting and coaching scholarship and practice. [1 CU]

DYNM 645-077: Project Course: Reflective Practices
In this project course, students focus on their personal reflections and insights on their learning journey throughout the OCEC Cohort program and write a personal reflection on their personal and professional experiences from the perspective of the individual, as a member of the cohort, and as a member of a professional or other organization outside the OCEC program. [1 CU]