MQM2ACP-Advanced Coaching Practice

Module Provider: Leadership, Organisations and Behaviour
Number of credits: 20 [10 ECTS credits]
Level:NA
Terms in which taught: Autumn term module
Pre-requisites:
Non-modular pre-requisites:
Co-requisites:
Modules excluded:
Current from: 2021/2

Module Convenor: Dr Rebecca Jones
Email: r.j.jones@henley.ac.uk

Type of module:

Summary module description:

This is the first module of three, making up the Post-Graduate Diploma level of the programme. This module develops some of the themes begun in the Certificate in Coaching, and explores some of the more difficult situations a coach can face. This includes interpersonal issues, coaching topics, and contextual issues, such as cross-cultural coaching, coaching and behavioural change in the international arena and the business of coaching itself.

The module runs over 3 months, consisting of two workshops, of three and two days, and inter-workshop activity including peer coaching and learning group work. Work with external coachees, with real coaching issues, will form part of the experience of this module.

Aims:

• To equip students with knowledge, understanding, judgement and skills to recognise difficult or challenging coaching and behavioural change situations, and handle them effectively


• To ensure students are able to manage their own coaching business or practice in an ethical way, with appropriate boundaries and contracting practices


• To broaden students’ horizons in the field to enable them to engage with more challenging assignments, with individuals and organisations

Assessable learning outcomes:

• One 5000 word reflective piece


• Observed skill in working in the topic areas covered by the module


• Feedback from external coachee, tutors, learning

Additional outcomes:

• Increased confidence in working with groups, both as coach, and also as a member of a group


• Increased awareness of group dynamics and the effects of a system on the behaviour of individuals


• Development of a wider range of flexibility and options for working within organizations


• Development of a wider range of methods

Outline content:
• Introduction to the major neuroses
• Psychological issues and mental health in the workplace
• Conflict management and difficult conversations
• The use of humour to provoke and enable behavioural change in the workplace
• The various organisational contexts and opportunities for coaching
• History, sociology and politics of executive coaching
• The psychology and sociology of leadership development
• Talent in organisations – its identification and d evelopment
• The psychology of behavioural change
• Coaching multi-culturally
• The use of language to provoke and enable change
• Ethics, boundaries and contracting
• The business of coaching in organisations – buying it, selling yourself, the impact of coaching in organisations

Brief description of teaching and learning methods:

• Psychological issues and mental health in the workplace


• Conflict management and difficult conversations


• The various organisational contexts and opportunities for coaching


• History, sociology and politics of executive coaching


• The psychology and sociology of leadership development


• Talent in organisations – its identification and development


• The psychology of behavioural change


• Coaching multi-culturally


• The use of language to provoke and enable change


• Ethics, boundaries and contracting


• The business of coaching in organisations – buying it, selling yourself, the impact of coaching in organisations

Summative assessment- Examinations:

None

Summative assessment- Coursework and in-class tests:

5000 word reflective piece

Submission date: 7th January 2021 

Formative assessment methods:

Observed coaching and supervision sessions, feedback from peers, tutors and learning advisors.

Penalties for late submission:

University standard penalties apply

Assessment requirements for a pass:

50% on written assignment

Reassessment arrangements:
1 resubmission, in line with overall programme regulations

Additional Costs (specified where applicable):

Last updated: 8 April 2021