Enquire about this course: business-academy@herts.ac.uk

Are you a leader or manager and looking for new ways to empower and enable the people around you to become independent thinkers and learners? 

Do you want to improve your coaching skills and build professional coaching into your everyday work? 

Do you have an interest in coaching as a profession and would like to begin to develop the skills you need?

In this short course we will be introducing coaching conversations as a valuable management and professional resource for helping individuals develop. Course participants are likely to be existing leaders and managers and/or are aspiring to develop coaching skills that will be used in professional practice. The value of this course lies in the focus on developing your skills as a professional coach, rather than on simply developing knowledge.

This highly experiential course will use a variety of active learning techniques to

• introduce a range of coaching principles, theory and models, based on a relational approach to professional coaching
• provide opportunities in all sessions to experience coaching whether as coach, coachee or observer
• encourage reflection on the experience of coaching as an important part of the learning process
• enable participants to achieve the required learning outcomes for the CMI Level 5 Certificate in Professional Coaching Practice (21 Level 5 credits)

In addition to the teaching provided, as a course delegate you will be given one year's affiliate membership of CMI, allowing access to the full range of resources, research and support on the MyCMI hub.

Most on-campus teaching days are 9.30 - 16.30.  A full list ot teaching dates and times of sessions is in the Course Fact Sheet in the Downloads section.

To meet the assessment requirements, participants must be in a position to establish at least one professional coaching partnership outside of the course cohort. This could be as a leader or manager within your organisation, or in another professional context. If you are not sure whether this will be possible for you, please contact the course leader before applying. 

A good standard of written and spoken English is essential.

By the end of the course, participants will demonstrate that they are able to: 

• discuss the benefits of professional coaching and evaluate this approach with other methods of support 
• analyse the roles and responsibilities for delivering and managing professional coaching 
• evaluate the ethical and legal frameworks which inform professional coaching 
• evaluate the role and purpose of contracting in professional coaching and discuss the process for delivering professional coaching 
• plan and prepare to deliver professional coaching 
• deliver and complete records of professional coaching 
• reflect on the delivery and outcomes of own professional coaching  
• create a professional development plan to improve a coaching capability