Use business coaching skills to enhance your management style, leading to improved communication, better problem-solving, and enhanced performance. Leaders who use a coaching method create continuous momentum in teams, allowing them to reach personal, team, and corporate goals. The practical skills learned on this course will empower any manager of teams or projects to adopt a proactive and solutions-based approach.
COURSE LENGTH:
COURSE STRUCTURE:
- Introducing Coaching as a Manager
- The Manager as Coach
- Management Styles
- Coaching Performance
- Coaching Intelligence Models
- Feedback & Difficult Conversations
- Other Models
- Managing the Team
- Career Coaching
- Coaching in Practice
STUDY OPTIONS:
Part Time
1 x 3 hour live online evening class per week over 10 weeks
SUMMARY:
Coaching allows you to bring out the best in people through collaboration, support, and guidance. This highly practical course uses lots of real-world examples to help you embed various coaching methods into your management style. You will become a more attuned and intelligent leader; energising and encouraging your teams, your colleagues, and yourself!
Learn to facilitate team members to own their solutions to problems and deliver better performance while improving morale and loyalty. Find out how coaching can help you achieve and maintain high performance in hybrid and remote teams. Reflect on what drives human behaviours as you deepen your self-awareness – in particular through looking at emotional intelligence and positive intelligence.
Over the course of 10 weeks, you will explore various business coaching techniques and models, looking at successful case studies to understand their real-world application. There will be ample opportunity to share and learn from your peers, exploring what works, might work, and has worked in the past. These problem-solving models will be immediately effective in your teams or with colleagues.
Learners taking part in this course will now have access to the EBSCO Online Library, free of charge, for the full duration of the course. Here you can browse thousands of relevant journal articles and other reliable academic and commercial texts like the Harvard Business Review, Bloomberg Business week and Forbes Magazine, to supplement your learning and assignments.
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES:
One of the four main leadership styles, coaching leadership is very popular and recognised by employers as a highly valuable skill. This certificate will demonstrate your practical understanding of business coaching skills and their application in a professional setting. With feedback, roleplay, and discussions featuring heavily throughout the course, you will gain new skills and the confidence to complement a coaching method with your teams and colleagues - and achieve quantifiable results.
ASSESSMENT AND CERTIFICATION
This course is assessed through a learning journal (20%) and an assignment report (80%). Your journal (200 words weekly) will demonstrate your insights as you progress through the course, and the assignment (2,500-3000 words) will show how you have implemented the learnings of the course into your management style, including what worked, what you need to concentrate on, and how it will evolve in the future.
Your UCD Professional Academy Certificate will be issued electronically on a secure platform, with a link that you can share with employers and others wishing to verify your credentials. You’ll also be able to add the certification to your LinkedIn profile to demonstrate your achievement to your network as well as recruiters and potential employers searching for individuals with your skills and experience.
This course is not on the National Framework of Qualifications.
LEARNER PROFILE:
This course would suit any professional in any level of management, including but not limited to supervisors, line managers, managers, team leaders, business owners, and executive leadership. You may manage people directly (individuals or teams) or be responsible for people within a project. For those aspiring to people leadership, this course will lay out a positive approach to performance management and people. This course is not aimed at people who want to coach as a core function (for this, we recommend exploring the opportunities at UCD Smurfit Business School) although it could be a good first step along such a path.
