FALL 2009

September 9-13: DYNM 720 ~ Foundations of Organizational Consulting and Executive Coaching
This intensive course not only will provide experientially the intellectual and practical core of every subsequent course but also will facilitate the creation of the cohesive community that is so fundamental to this program. Here, the cohort itself will be 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 work they have done.

October 3-4; October 31-November 1; and December 5-6: 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 will 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 will develop a theory-guided consulting and coaching framework. Here they research, present, and apply a framework of their own choosing.

SPRING 2010

January 16-17; February 6-7; and March 6-7: DYNM 724 ~ The Consulting/Coaching Process, Consulting/Coaching Tools and Techniques
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. Then, expanding their newly acquired skills, cohort members will 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.

April 10-11 and May 15-16: 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 levels.

SUMMER 2010

June 11-13: DYNM 727 ~ Expanding Consulting/Coaching Tools and Skills
Competencies will be 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.

July - August (Clinics: July 10-11 and August 7-8): DYNM 728 ~ 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.

FALL 2010

September - December: DYNM 729 ~ Consulting/Coaching Internship Field Experience
Participants are exposed to a variety of consulting/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.

September - December: DYNM 730 ~ Capstone/Portfolio Proposal
Participants will prepare their Personal Portfolio which will include a record of understanding of the assigned literature and classroom-based theory and experiences. In addition, each individual's personal coaching philosophy will be framed in a theoretical model developed over the course of the program.

SPRING 2011

January - April: DYNM 731 ~ Capstone Portfolio Presentation
This is the opportunity for participants to demonstrate their mastery. Throughout the program, participants will have systematically codified their learning experiences through the accumulation of various papers, project results, and other measures of performance. Personal reflections and insights will be an essential aspect of the ongoing record of learning. Using all of these as source material, the participant will write a full case history from the Internship Field Experience, use the 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.

May: Penn Commencement Exercises
OCEC students who have completed their academic requirements will attend the Penn Commencement and will walk with Organizational Dynamics students in the Graduation Ceremony. All OCEC students will receive their Graduate Certificate and their Master’s Diploma unless they register for the Summer Coaching Laboratory following which they will receive their Master’s Diploma.

SUMMER 2011

May - August: DYNM 645 ~ Project-Based Coaching Laboratory
Participants who wish to continue their studies in applied consulting/coaching are encouraged to join the Dynamics Coaching Laboratory. Supervised by the OCEC faculty, the Coaching Laboratory will provide continued opportunities to engage with clients, conduct research, and develop competencies in the field.