Description
Coaching Skills Certificate
This is a fully interactive online course which provides you with your Certificate in Coaching.
Additionally, once you achieve your Coaching Skills Certificate, you will be entitled to join the Institute of Training and Occupational Learning (ITOL) at full Member level and use the letters MITOL after your name to reflect your professional status.
You will carry out all your studying online for your Coaching Skills Certificate. You just submit your coaching logs and other documents as you work through the programme.
Coaching Skills Certificate Outcomes
By the end of this Coaching Certificate, you will be able to:
- Plan, prepare, and run a series of coaching sessions
- Use a range of approaches to support coaching clients
- Apply the GROW model as a planning and coaching session framework
- Contract for results and enable clients to develop SMART goals and realistic action plans
- Apply the STAR techniques to explore problematic situations
- Apply the ABC Cognitive Behavioural Approach to help clients identify and move on from self-limiting beliefs
- Apply effective questioning, active listening, rapport building challenging and feedback skills to your practise coaching sessions
- Develop your coaching skills based on feedback, supervision and self-reflection
The course is sub-divided into a number of modules. You can join and leave your Coaching Skills Certificate course at any point, as the system will save all your inputs and remember where you are in the course.
Alongside working through the modules, you will be carrying out live coaching sessions so you can apply your coaching skills directly to real coaching situations and gain experience.
Outcomes
To successfully complete your Coaching Skills Certificate, you will need to:
- Fully complete all online modules
- Carry out at least 10 hours of coaching
- Submit your coaching logs online
- Submit your Coaching Notes front sheets
- Write an assignment of at least 2500 words
- Provide feedback from one coaching client
- Submit your Reflective Learning Journal
- Complete your coaching session debriefs online
Coaching Skills Certificate – Programme Outline
Module 1- What is Coaching?
By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- Identify what coaching is
- Identify how coaching differs from other interventions
- State the key skills required by an effective coach
- Analyse your key coaching strengths and areas for improvement
Module 2 – The Coaching Process
By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- Apply the GROW model as a planning and coaching session framework
- Identify questions for each stage of the model to promote effective discussion
- Enable your clients to develop focused goals and action plans
Module 3 – Contracting for Results
By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- Contract for results so that you, your client and line manager will be clear about what commitments each of you needs to make
Coaching Skills Experience – 1
Coaching for Performance by Sir John Whitmore
By the end of this module, you will have carried out your first two coaching sessions.
Module 4 – Listening Skills
By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- Identify how people can tell if you are listening attentively
- State what behaviours a good listener will use
- Analyse how good a listener you are
- Action plan to improve your listening skills
Module 5 – Body Language
By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- Identify signs of acceptance and resistance in body language
- Interpret the body language of a group of individuals
Module 6 – Left Brain vs Right Brain
By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- Identify the differences between left brain, and right brain thinking
- Use a range of tools to stimulate right brain thinking
Coaching Skills Experience – 2
By the end of this module, you will have carried out your next two coaching sessions.
Module 7 – Feedback
By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- Use a coaching style to give feedback
- Identify the dangers in giving direct feedback
Module 8 – Note Taking
By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- Use the GROW framework for accurate note taking
Coaching Skills Experience – 3
By the end of this module, you will have carried out your next two coaching sessions.
Module 9 – The Cognitive Behavioural Approach
By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- Use a range of models to help your client work with a positive mindset
Module 10 – Tools for your Toolbox
By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- Use a number of tools to enable you to focus your client away from irrational and negative thinking.
Module 11 – The STAR Model
By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- Use the STAR model to probe and enable your client to give you a specific example.
Coaching Skills Experience – 4
By the end of this module, you will have carried out your next two coaching sessions.
Module 12 – Coaching Style Analysis
By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- Use the Experience/Motivation Matrix to change your coaching intervention style
Module 13 – Exploring Our Strengths
By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- Identify your top five personal strengths
- Explore how personal strengths can be used in coaching
The Wheel of Life
A resource for you to use with your coaching clients.
