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This tutor supported distance learning course introduces you to relevant up-to-date
information and skills related to coaching.
The
aim of the course is to deepen your knowledge and to provide you with
the skills related to coaching. This is achieved through providing
information and training in essential coaching skills. Case studies,
practical activities and assignments are included as key teaching tools.
Coaching
is rooted in developmental psychology and is commonly applied in
organisational settings. For example, coaching is often associated with
team building, executive coaching, anger/conflict management,
life-skills coaching, career development, and so on. A coach is both a
mentor and a guide. He or she helps clients define aspirations,
recognise patterned ways of relating, identify options, uncover rules,
and set new goals that can help them grow - and so become the person
they want to be. To this extent, a coach acts as a catalyst for
positive change. He or she also helps the person become a more
effective part of a ‘system’ (such as the family, community, church,
corporation or industry).
The course is designed for:
- People who are considering coaching as a career and want to gain a certificate in the subject.
- Personal, corporate or organisational coaches who want to enhance their knowledge and skills.
- Trainers, careers advisors, human resource personnel, line, middle and senior management.
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People who work in the caring professions (teachers, nurses, doctors,
health visitors, ministers and pastors, community workers, and so on).
- Those interested in the field of coaching.
This course is designed to be both relevant and practical.
Your course in mentoring includes the following topics:
- Defining coaching
- Describing the coaching process
- The tasks of a coach
- Seven steps to developing a good coach-client relationship
- Understanding and identifying different 'learning styles'
- Attitude and perception management
- Coaching through life’s transitions
- Coaching core values
- Systems coaching: working with groups (including companies, organisations, families and the community)
- Ethical guidelines for coaches
The
course materials consist of 10 lessons, 5 tutor marked assignments and
a textbook. This is supplemented with suggested background reading.
If you enrol on, and successfully complete the Coaching and Mentoring
Certificate courses, you are eligible for the Institute’s Diploma in Coaching and Mentoring
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