COACH Academy
Coaching and training pathways that turn learning into leadership, management and governance practice.
As a member of the network of centres of excellence affiliated with the National Secretariat for Capacity Building (SENAREC), the Academy aligns its sessions with recognised national and international quality standards.
An Academy organised around your responsibilities
Public mandates and business leadership involve different working situations; the content reflects that distinction.
Governance & Senior Public Service
Civil servants, ministerial offices, parliaments, state-owned enterprises
Professional development for public administration and institutional officials, building on assignments with SENAREC and the Ministry of Finance: results-based management, leading reforms, steering a public mandate.
Managerial Performance & Leadership
Companies, financial institutions, civil society organisations
Executive programmes for leaders and managers: leadership, performance-based management, executive team cohesion and talent development.
Six complementary components
One objective across different stages of professional life: exercising responsibilities more effectively.
Executive coaching
Sessions for decision-makers and senior officials at the highest levels of public institutions, private companies and civil society.
- Decision-makers and senior officials
- Trade-offs and strategic steering
- Influence and managerial example
Professional coaching
Individual or team support for professionals who want to structure their trajectory and take on greater responsibility.
- Professionals and teams
- Career management and professional ambition
- Expected attitudes and aptitudes
Leadership coaching
Developing transformational leadership and team leadership skills within a continuous performance improvement process.
- Leaders, executives and managers
- Transformational leadership
- Team performance and cohesion
Entrepreneurship coaching
Introduction and support for designing, launching and managing an entrepreneurial venture.
- Entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs
- Entrepreneurial culture and practice
- Resilience and empowerment of women and young people
Employment coaching
Sessions for job seekers, building the skills and the approach that lead to decent employment.
- Job seekers and recent graduates
- Employability and access to work
- Reducing situations of vulnerability
Citizenship and civic responsibility
Capacity building for civil society actors, for effective and high-quality civic action in the service of sustainable development.
- Civil society organisations
- Citizen oversight and monitoring
- Participation in public action
The fields our sessions cover
Topics are set out in the detailed catalogue, available on request.
- Governance, public policy and public sector reform
- Public finance, taxation and economic development
- Decentralisation, local governance and local development
- Results-based management and monitoring & evaluation
- Management of public investment projects and programmes
- Human resources and organisational development
- Leadership, change leadership and management
- Entrepreneurship and employability
- e-Governance and technology applied to governance
- Ethics, professional conduct and public service
Two ways to work with the Academy
Your needs guide the choice of format and the scope of the programme.
Catalogue sessions
Scheduled sessions, open to professionals and institutions, drawn from our annual coaching and training offer.
Tailored sessions
Programmes designed on request, from the diagnosis carried out with your organisation and its result priorities.
What underpins the value of our sessions
Learning is assessed through practical application as well as session evaluation.
- Small groups, allowing individual follow-up of each participant
- A high proportion of role play, case studies and applied exercises
- Threefold evaluation: of participants, of the facilitator and of the session itself
- Certificate of participation issued subject to attendance
- Sessions held on site, in our premises or in partner centres of the network
Who our sessions are for
Responsibility level and professional context guide the choice of pathway.
- National, provincial and local elected officials
- Members of government and ministerial cabinets
- Secretaries-general, directors-general and senior civil servants
- Executives of public and private enterprises
- Project and programme coordinators and managers
- Civil society organisation actors
- Professionals and graduates developing their careers
Scope a programme for your teams
Request the schedule and catalogue, or discuss your teams' needs with us.