Coaching Skills 2

Coaching Skills 2 Course Outlines

Pre-requisites: Coaching Skills 1

Module Purpose:
This module supports students in developing an advanced understanding of coaching practice by supporting each student through the development of a unique model and framework of practice. Students deepen their awareness and understanding of the coaching process and examine different paradigms to activate flow in a coaching relationship. Students explore how to position coaching interventions effectively within systemic and organisational contexts. Skills for the development of leadership in a postmodern world are introduced.
Students can expect to develop a more integrated coaching skill-set in which they artfully facilitate the assessing of potential through a clearly defined model of practice, an advanced understanding of process and an appreciation of systemic and contextual factors bearing on a coaching intervention.

Module Content:

• Accessing potential through scenario planning.
• Developing a practitioner model and framework of coaching.
• Systems thinking in coaching.
• Understanding the organisational context when coaching.
• Developing diversity awareness.
• Coaching for leadership development.
• Advanced skills for the process-oriented coach.
• Professional and peer --supervision.
• Behavioural assessment principles.
• Effective communication of coaching model.
• Building a coaching practice

Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop a unique practitioner coaching model and framework.
2. Demonstrate an advanced ability to understand and work with human process.
3. Understand key ways to access potential through a coaching relationship.
4. Develop a systemic awareness in interpreting and working with a client system.
5. Understand the influence of organisational dynamics and structures on a coaching intervention.
6. Develop an ability to participate effectively in professional and peer-supervision.
7. Demonstrate an ethical understanding of the practice of coaching
8. Develop an understanding of effective ways of developing a coaching practice