Core Coaching Skills

• Credit value: 30 credits at Level 7
• Convenor: Janet Sheath
• Assessment: a 500-word draft contract (10%), two 2000-word client reviews (45% each) and a non-assessed supervision log

This module will help you develop the core coaching skills required to begin work as an evidence-based and reflective coach, who can work at depth with clients with a range of work-based and career needs.

It consists of:

• five Saturday skills days
• five evening digital coaching practice sessions
• five case discussion sessions
• six practice client contact hours (with additional preparation and reflective practice time).

Indicative syllabus

• Contracting with clients
• Core coaching skills x 2
• Transference in coaching
• Counter transference in coaching
• Digital coaching
• Coaching in organisations

By the end of this module, you will have:

• developed and practised core coaching skills to start working at depth with career clients
• an in-depth theoretical knowledge of coaching skills
• developed an evidence-based approach to working with coaching clients
• the skills to begin to support individuals to identify and explore their coaching and career development needs and aspirations
• the capacity to begin to build and maintain client-centred relationships
• the skills of reflective practice to develop an ethical approach to working with clients
• the ability to respond appropriately to clients
• an understanding of the dynamics present in coaching relationships
• an ability for critical self-reflection on the ways in which the coach impacts on the coaching process
• established a small career coaching or coaching practice, supported with professional supervision
• developed effective coaching contracts for both organisational and individual coaching clients
• an understanding of, and practised, working online and in person with clients and managed the transition between these different modalities
• an understanding through personal development work of your own career development.