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Industry Graduate Diploma in Coaching

  • Leadership & Management
Next Intake: 31 Dec 2025 (Wed)
  • Intermediate
  • SkillsFuture
  • Full Certificates

All IGD applications will be reviewed, and will be notified of the outcome via email after application closes.

Fee
SGD33,463* (as low as SGD3,898.90 after maximum funding) Learn More
Duration

2 or 3 days per module

Scheduled on weekdays

Level
Intermediate

Who Should Attend

  • Senior leaders, managers and business professionals, who are keen to support another professional’s development through coaching
  • Existing coaches who wish to enhance their business coaching offer

Admission requirements

  • A Bachelor’s Degree with at least 5 years of working experience; or
  • A Diploma from a local polytechnic with at least 10 years of relevant work experience

Overview

Please note that the Industry Graduate Diploma in Coaching will only be available from August 2025.

Learning Objectives

The Industry Graduate Diploma in Coaching aims to enhance the overall coaching and managerial effectiveness of working professionals in the global business environment.

Through this programme, learners will:

  • Learn how to conduct effective coaching conversations to enhance the performance and wellbeing of individuals, teams, and organisations.
  • Develop the ability to think strategically and implement business strategies.
  • Enhance adaptability skills to manage and thrive through organisational changes and challenges.
  • Learn the methods needed to maintain personal wellbeing and resilience in the workplace.

Topic/Structure

This Industry Graduate Diploma in Coaching comprises the following modules:

  • Professional Certificate in Coaching (4 modules) OR Professional Certificate in Business Coaching (4 modules)
  • Strategic Thinking and Business Acumen
  • Strategic Implementation Toolkit: An Essential Guide for Middle Managers
  • Advanced Certificate in Talent Assessment and Performance Development Module 1: Proactive and Learnability Capability
  • Advanced Certificate in Talent Assessment and Performance Development Module 2: Performance and Adaptability Capability
  • Personal Wellbeing and Resilience in the Workplace Module 1: The Foundations
  • Personal Wellbeing and Resilience in the Workplace Module 2: Psychological First Aid Training for Peer Support

Assessment

As part of the requirement for SkillsFuture Singapore, there will be an assessment conducted at the end of every module as well as an overall Industry Graduate Diploma exam. The mode of assessment, which is up to the trainer’s discretion, may be an online quiz, a presentation or based on classroom exercises.

CERTIFICATION

Upon completion of all the required modules within 2 years and passing the overall IGD exam, participants will be awarded an Industry Graduate Diploma in Coaching.

Calculate Programme Fee

Click here for more information about SkillsFuture Credits (Not applicable for Company-sponsored participants)
For PSEA - Available only for Singapore Citizen below 31 (Not applicable for Company-sponsored participants)

Total Program Fee: SGD0.00

Fee Table

 COMPANY-SPONSORED

PARTICIPANT PROFILE

SELF-SPONSORED

SME

NON-SME

Singapore Citizen < 40 years old

Permanent Resident

LTVP+

$10,038.90

(After SSG Funding 70%)

$3,898.90

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ ETSS Funding 20%)

$10,038.90

(After SSG Funding 70%)

Singapore Citizen ≥ 40 years old

$3,898.90

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ MCES Funding 20%)

$3,898.90

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ ETSS Funding 20%)

$3,898.90

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ MCES Funding 20%)

International Participant

$33,463

(No Funding)

$33,463

(No Funding)

$33,463

(No Funding)

*The course fees are exclusive of the following: $272.50 registration fee, $109 application fee, and $545 exam fees.
*All prices include 9% GST

Please note that the programme fees are subject to change without prior notice.

Post Secondary Education Account (PSEA)
PSEA can be utilised for subsidised programmes eligible for SkillsFuture Credit support. Click here to find out more.

Self Sponsored

SkillsFuture Credit

Singapore Citizens aged 25 and above may use their SkillsFuture Credits to pay for the course fees. The credits may be used on top of existing course fee funding.

This is only applicable to self-sponsored participants. Application to utilise SkillsFuture Credits can be submitted when making payment for the course via the SMU Academy TMS Portal, and can only be made within 60 days of course start date.

Please click here for more information on the SkillsFuture Credit. For help in submitting an SFC claim, you may wish to refer to our step-by-step guide on claiming SkillsFuture Credits (Individual).

Workfare Skills Support Scheme

From 1 July 2023, the Workfare Skills Support (WSS) scheme has been enhanced. Please click here for more details.

Company Sponsored

Enhanced Training Support for SMEs (ETSS)

  • Organisation must be registered or incorporated in Singapore
  • Employment size of not more than 200 or with annual sales turnover of not more than $100 million
  • Trainees must be hired in accordance with the Employment Act and fully sponsored by their employers for the course
  • Trainees must be Singapore Citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents
  • Trainees must not be a full-time national serviceman
  • Trainees are eligible for ETSS funding only if their company's SME status is approved prior to the course commencement date. To verify your SME's status, please click here. 

Please click here for more information on ETSS.

Absentee Payroll

Companies who sponsor their employees for the course may apply for Absentee Payroll here. For more information, please refer to:

AP Guide (Non-SME Companies)
Declaration Guide (SME Companies)

Intake Information

Professional Certificate in Coaching is conducted Online/Virtually.

Professional Certificate in Coaching Module 1: Foundations of Coaching5 - 7 May 2025 (Online)2 - 4 Jul 2025 (Online)
Professional Certificate in Coaching Module 2: Intermediate Coaching Skills19 - 21 May 2025 (Online)14 - 16 Jul 2025 (Online)
Professional Certificate in Coaching Module 3: Advanced Coaching Skills2- 4 Jun 2025 (Online)24 - 26 Sep 2025 (Online)
Professional Certificate in Coaching Module 4: Certified Coaching Skills28 - 30 Jul 2025 (Online)13 - 15 Oct 2025 (Online)
Professional Certificate in Business Coaching Module 1: Coaching Essentials7 - 9 Apr 2025 
Professional Certificate in Business Coaching Module 2: Knowing Yourself as A Coach14 - 16 May 2025 
Professional Certificate in Business Coaching Module 3: Business and Leadership Coaching Competencies23 - 25 Jun 2025 
Professional Certificate in Business Coaching Module 4: The Business of Coaching

Online group coaching sessions (compulsory): 

14 Jul 2025: 4.30 - 6pm

4 Aug 2025: 4.30 - 6pm

25 - 27 Aug 2025 (face-to-face classroom session)

 
Strategic Thinking and Business Acumen17-18 Mar 2025 
Strategic Implementation Toolkit: An Essential Guide for Middle Managers22 - 23 Apr 2025 
Advanced Certificate in Talent Assessment and Performance Development Module 1: Proactive and Learnability Capability25 - 26 Aug 2025 
Advanced Certificate in Talent Assessment and Performance Development Module 2: Performance and Adaptability Capability22-23 Sept 2025 
Personal Wellbeing and Resilience in the Workplace Module 1: The Foundations15 - 16 Sep 2025  
Personal Wellbeing and Resilience in the Workplace Module 2: Psychological First Aid Training for Peer Support19-20 May 2025  

 

 

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