Masters in Coaching, Consulting and Leadership in Organisations
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Turkey is undergoing momentous change. Individuals, organisations and the community as a whole are in need of leaders that can help realize their potential. One thing is crystal clear: Turkey is one of the most promising and upcoming economical, political and social powers in the world. This Masters in Coaching, Consulting and Leadership in Organisations provides its participants with the personal and professional capabilities needed to perform a leadership role in any environment. The programme will appeal to anyone committed to the future of Turkey and wanting to initiate change and be a part of it. It is for committed, young professionals who work in management in commercial, public and non-profit organisations and want to make a difference as part of a growing community of practitioners in leadership, consulting and coaching. It is an exciting, challenging, two year part-time programme accredited by Middlesex University, London and will begin in Istanbul, in April 2011.
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Welcome
Welcome to the European Leadership Centre 30 years of organising world-class executive education
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What to expect
The MCCLO-programme is built around a process of personal development based on action learning. What the programme aims to fulfill is the participant’s personal development as an influential leader. Much emphasis is placed on developing a learning community in which high levels of collaboration will be fostered. In the MCCLO-programme, we have chosen a system of short modules spread over a two-year period. From the beginning, participants are expected to combine their previous and present work experience, the content of the different modules and their influencing skills. The final project will draw on the participant’s action learning abilities: how can they implement what they have learned into the community where they work? This is why the final project culminates in a project presentation not just for the programme’s faculty members, but also for stakeholders from the participants own organisations.
Flexible learning approaches - A real life focus
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What to expect
The opportunity to meet and work with different participants from other organisations provides the ultimate chance to extend ones personal and professional network. In the programme, extra attention will be paid to this networking opportunity through specially formed Learning Communities, teambuilding moments and joint assignments. The Learning Communities are consultation groups which aim to enlarge and broaden the outcomes of the learning process. Supported by their participant supervisor, participants (learn to) reflect on their own learning, exchange experiences and test each other’s insights. This process of reflection is mainly directed by the participants themselves, so they will learn from the experiences of their fellow participants as well as from the facilitators. Class sizes are kept small – typically twelve participants – so that the facilitators can spend one-on-one time with the participants to help with any specific issues they may wish to discuss.
Networking
The number of participants is geared towards a small group setting for high level interaction. If more candidates apply than places are available, a waiting list will be prepared. Those candidates who cannot be placed directly in the programme, can be admitted to next year’s course.
Number of participants
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Practical
The MCCLO-programme is geared mainly to Turkish participants who in the future will individually and collectively influence organisations in Turkey that are forerunners in their fields. The group is composed of promising and dynamic managers or consultants from the commercial, public or non-profit sector. They have a minimum of three years relevant working experience and wish to add extra value to their professional practice. Participants will generally have a bachelor’s university degree and a good command of the English language. The programme encourages participation from all backgrounds and is therefore open to applicants from all fields of study.
Target group
Applicants can submit an Application Package to the European Leadership Centre. The package can be downloaded from the Internet. Part of the application is a short paper stating the candidate’s motivation for participating, learning goals, relevant experience and educational background. After appraisal of the papers and a first (paper) selection round, suitable candidates will be invited for an intake conversation in Istanbul. This session may help the candidates decide whether the programme is what they are actually looking for in their professional and personal development and whether they are prepared to commit to the practical and personal demands of the programme. Applicants with qualifications from non-English-speaking countries must demonstrate their English language proficiency with an IELTS or TOEFL certificate.
Internationally accredited Masters degree
Successful completion of the entire programme results in an internationally accepted Masters degree in Coaching, Consulting and Leadership in Organisations which has been accredited by Middlesex University, London.
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Practical
Application and selection
• articulate their key hopes, expectations and concerns as they embark on the programme; • reflect systematically on their individual learning preferences and needs; • acquire knowledge of the most important psychological and sociological dimensions of leadership and teamwork within organisations; • gain a deeper understanding of their own leadership, coaching and consulting styles; • form an active learning community that is in accordance with the values and goals of the programme; • use the outdoors to experience forming, learning and leading exercises; • may be accredited with an APEL (accreditation of prior and experiential learning) which exempts them from certain sections of the Masters programme.
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Content
In the first three modules (April, May and July 2011), participants will:
Strand 1: Engaging in the learning community
• acquire an advanced understanding of the most important dimensions of coaching, consulting and leadership according to their different levels of “intimacy” (personal / family, group / organisation, intergroup / community, wider ecology); • be provided with a theoretical and practical basis for the different dimensions of coaching, consulting and leadership and incorporate these in their own personal practice; • clarify their preferred set of skills and forms of intervention, their intentions for influencing change in contemporary Turkish settings and their own theories of change; • conduct an Action Research project intended to investigate and influence change in a local setting in Turkey; • work on a variety of assignments, projects and photo-journalism.
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Content
In the next four modules (September, October, November 2011 and January 2012), participants:
Strand 2: Developing leadership with consulting and coaching skills
• be provided with a bridge into the thesis process by means of a broad overview of research methodology and knowledge of a range of approaches and methodologies relevant to professional practitioner research work. • design and plan a work-based final project focused on advancing the individual and their organisation/profession. The final project will be executed between June 2012 and March 2013. • present and work with their proposed final project in a work based learning participatory fashion.
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Content
In the methodology module (five meetings between February and May 2012), participants will:
Strand 3: Methodology and final project
Academic Director: Robin Ladkin, PhD
Robin’s coaching and consulting practice focuses on leadership in contexts of change, both at organisational and personal levels. He mainly works in the international NGO sector and has considerable experience in commercial, professional as well as public sector organisations. Learning Matters is a coaching organisation dedicated to supporting leaders seeking to influence change for ecological resilience. Robin is married to Donna Ladkin, Prof in Leadership and Ethics at Cranfield Business School and has two sons; Ben a manager in the communications unit at Arsenal football club and Sam, a lecturer in poetry at Sheffield University.
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Faculty
Robin is a partner in his own consulting practice Learning Matters, an Associate Consultant with Ashridge Consulting Ltd, and Fellow of the Centre for Leadership Studies at the University of Exeter. Robin has experience of designing practice based academic programmes as a founder faculty member of the Ashridge Masters in Organisation Consulting and the Ashridge Doctorate in Organisation Change. He also designed the framework for MCCLO. Robin facilitates and supervises participants on these programmes, particularly enjoying witnessing their personal transformation over the course of a programme.
Alper believes that personal transformation occurs hand in hand with organisational transformation and that sustainable change happens when leaders are able to change their ways of relating with others. He proposes that: personal inquiry by a leader is a critical step in moving from unconscious to conscious leading for those who want to lead with authentic and relational presence. Alper is the Founder and President of Management Centre Turkiye which is one of the leading organisational and leadership development firms in Turkey and the surrounding region. Alper is married and father of two daughters. He enjoys spending time in nature, skiing, sailing and playing saxophone with his amateur band.
Programme Director: Alper Utku
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Faculty
Alper Utku graduated from Bogazici University’s Mechanical Engineering Department in 1991 and holds an Ashridge / Middlesex University’s Doctorate in Organizational Consultancy. Alper is interested in transformational leadership and specifically in the themes of intimacy, presence, being real and relational leadership. He approaches his leadership practice by integrating Sufism, which is an Eastern mystical tradition, with Western theoretical traditions such as Gestalt psychology, complexity theory, attachment theory and transactional analysis.
Director of Development: Dr. Alper Tengüz
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Faculty
Alper Tengüz is an expert in the design and execution of leadership development and large-scale organization development programmes. Until 2008, Alper was an engagement manager with McKinsey & Company. He successfully led several of the firm’s key client engagements with multi-billion dollar companies, often globally over an extended period, on leadership development and performance transformation. As an affiliate lecturer and program design director at the University of Frankfurt, Goethe Business School he drives the creation of new, innovative executive education programs on leadership and strategy.
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Mehmet Ali is Principal Lecturer and Principal Learning Development Tutor at the Institute for Work Based Learning at Middlesex University. He is also a DProf Programme Leader and Doctoral Research Methods and Programme Planning Module Leader. After spending the first years of his life in Istanbul, Turkey, he continued his secondary and higher education in England. He read Politics and Modern History at the University of Manchester and Sociology at Sussex University. He is one of the founding members of the 30-strong Turkish-Speaking Academics at Middlesex University and the Anglo-Turkish Educational Fund.
Faculty
Middlesex Link Tutor: Dr. Mehmet Ali Dikerdem
Contact Info Istanbul Liaison Office MCT Ahmet Öztan Yıldız Caddesi N0. 45 / 5 Besiktas 34353, Istanbul Telephone +90 (212) 310 17 00 mcclo@europeanleadershipcentre.com