Credibility of the ILPC Programme
Founding Member
The ILPC Programme is the brain child of Dawie Smith, emeritus professor of Leadership Development. He developed post-graduate degree programmes in Personal, Interpersonal and Professional Leadership at Honours, Master’s and Doctoral levels at the Rand Afrikaans University, now the University of Johannesburg. These degrees, which include many aspects of the Life and Professional Coaching course, were all registered with the Council for Higher Education (CHE) in South Africa. Dawie Smith’s fields of expertise include, amongst others, Life and Professional Coaching, Self-Management, Spiritual and Emotional Leadership (Intelligence), Relationship Building, Team Building, Professional Effectiveness and Teaching and Learning Effectiveness.
Facilitators/Trainers
Leadership The EPL Way has at its disposal the services of a team of highly qualified and experienced facilitators and practitioners. The credibility and reputation of our development programmes and its practitioners are built on sound scientific and practical principles.
Content Credibility
ILPC draws its knowledge and insight from…
Feedback from our clients
In addition, the credibility and reputation of our training programmes are supported by its clients. Some of these clients include:
The feedback from previous programmes varies from excellent, inspiring and empowering, to deeply touching and life changing. The style of our courses is widely acknowledged for its practical, interactive and experiential nature.
Personal Comment from one participant:
The ILPC Programme is the brain child of Dawie Smith, emeritus professor of Leadership Development. He developed post-graduate degree programmes in Personal, Interpersonal and Professional Leadership at Honours, Master’s and Doctoral levels at the Rand Afrikaans University, now the University of Johannesburg. These degrees, which include many aspects of the Life and Professional Coaching course, were all registered with the Council for Higher Education (CHE) in South Africa. Dawie Smith’s fields of expertise include, amongst others, Life and Professional Coaching, Self-Management, Spiritual and Emotional Leadership (Intelligence), Relationship Building, Team Building, Professional Effectiveness and Teaching and Learning Effectiveness.
Facilitators/Trainers
Leadership The EPL Way has at its disposal the services of a team of highly qualified and experienced facilitators and practitioners. The credibility and reputation of our development programmes and its practitioners are built on sound scientific and practical principles.
Content Credibility
ILPC draws its knowledge and insight from…
- a thorough academic background and vast practical experience
- established prominent coaching, counselling and life skills theories and schools of thought across the spectrum from psychotherapy to life skills coaching
- deep change philosophical, spiritual, psychological, physiological and neuro-scientific literature and principles
- both theory and its practical application. These are based on people’s real life experiences in personal, interpersonal and professional contexts
- the scientific foundation of ILPC which ensures continuous improvement of training material and facilitator effectiveness
Feedback from our clients
In addition, the credibility and reputation of our training programmes are supported by its clients. Some of these clients include:
- The Health Professional Counsel of South Africa (HPCSA)
- Modikwa Platinum Mine (Burgersfort)
- The Global Leadership Centre at Standard Bank
- Louis Allen Southern Africa
- Murray and Roberts
- Nando’s
- Anglo Development Centre (ADC)
- Global Payment Technologies
- Xstrata Alloys
- Momentum
- The Free State Department of Education
The feedback from previous programmes varies from excellent, inspiring and empowering, to deeply touching and life changing. The style of our courses is widely acknowledged for its practical, interactive and experiential nature.
Personal Comment from one participant:
“This course provides a depth of understanding of the human being in all his/her major life dimensions that blows my mind away. The harmony between academic theory and the practical realities of 21st century living makes this the most valuable learning experience I have ever been part of.”
Feedback from a Training Manager
The following is a testimonial by Dr. James Lidderd, Training Manager at Modikwa Platinum Mine, stating the value of The EPL Way courses on their mine’s safety and productivity:
"At Modikwa Platinum Mine we have identified, like many mines today in the industry, that we have a serious problem with leadership and supervisory skills. The old autocratic style of management is no longer cutting it. A new way of managing people had to be found. The EPL Way’s leadership initiative was introduced at Modikwa in 2004 as a leadership development programme. The impact of the programme was tremendous. It had a huge influence on the behaviour of our employees and the results were phenomenal. Modikwa is one of the safest mines in the world. At one stage Modikwa had nearly 9 million fatality free shifts. Using The EPL Way at Modikwa addressed our safety and relationship problems, but our production and costs were still average. Once again we embarked on finding a product that would enable us to equip our managers and supervisors with practical management and supervision skills. The end result was a product customised to our needs. The EPL Way Management and Supervisor programme made a huge difference in our production, and currently Modikwa is over-delivering on all our production targets. I can confidently state that The EPL Way interventions will make a difference to leadership effectiveness, attitudes, safety, production and cost saving in any organisation."
Why should you choose the ILPC Certified Master Coach Programme?
Reasons why you should train with ILPC:
- It is one of the most comprehensive and academically well founded programmes in the world. It is based on 15 years coaching and life skills training for Master’s Degree students at University level
- Leadership The EPL Way is acknowledged as a Coach Training Provider by COMENSA and is provisionally accredited with the International Coach Federation (ICF)
- The Programme includes training in Life Skills and Professional coaching
- In the ILPC Programme we specialise in personal and interpersonal life skills as well as executive, business and leadership coaching
- The Programme includes a wide variety of client assessment questionnaires and numerous useful coaching and life skills models and tools
- The ILPC is proud of its highly qualified and experienced trainers and facilitators
- The training programme is particularly well-structured and systematic
- Both theory and practical sessions are based on real life situations and are highly functional, interactive and experiential
Accreditation
The ILPC Certified Master Coach Programme is acknowledged by the Coaches and Mentors of South Africa (COMENSA) and provisionally accredited with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) as a life and professional coach training provider.
By becoming a member of COMENSA, ILPC graduates can practice as acknowledged Life and Professional Coaches in South Africa.
The International Coach Federation (ICF)
The ICF offers three levels of credentialing. Each credential requires a specific set of required hours of coach-specific training and coaching hours.
The levels of credentialing and required hours are:
By becoming a member of COMENSA, ILPC graduates can practice as acknowledged Life and Professional Coaches in South Africa.
The International Coach Federation (ICF)
The ICF offers three levels of credentialing. Each credential requires a specific set of required hours of coach-specific training and coaching hours.
The levels of credentialing and required hours are:
The ILPC theoretical training meets with all the requirements to apply for the ICF’s Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credentials. The ILPC electives enable ILPC participants to achieve the required theoretical hours for the PCC and MCC. Participants will need to document their own practical coaching experience separately to build up a Portfolio of Evidence for registration with the ICF.
