Coaching foundations
Coaching models, adult learning and psychology.
Half a day exploring the foundations of good coaching: the coaching relationship, GROW, adult learning and the main psychological and systemic approaches.
- Level
- Explore
- Learning time
- 5 hours 30 minutes
- Where
- Coaching and Mentoring
- Price
- £129
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Certificate of Completion, or Certificate of Completion and Assessment with a short assessment
Overview and Outcomes.
Who It's For
Managers and leaders building a rounded coaching practice
Overview
Coaching foundations is a broad dive into the ideas and skills that sit beneath good coaching in public service. It begins by separating coaching from training, mentoring and counselling, and by examining the working alliance, contracting and presence that make the relationship work. From there it moves through GROW and its successors, the adult learning theory of Kolb, Knowles and Argyris, and the person-centred, solution-focused and cognitive behavioural traditions. It closes by widening the lens: the practical toolkit of questions and structure, the Tavistock tradition of Bion and Menzies Lyth, and team and systemic coaching after Hawkins, Hackman and Wageman.
Aims
This programme aims to build a rounded coaching practice for managers and leaders, combining the relationship skills, models and psychology that make one-to-one conversations effective with an awareness of the group and system each person returns to, so that coaching becomes a reliable part of how they lead.
In summary, you will be able to:
- Explain how coaching differs from other helping conversations and how adult learning, person-centred and cognitive behavioural psychology underpin its effectiveness.
- Apply GROW, solution-focused and cognitive behavioural tools within a well-contracted coaching conversation that ends with a clear, owned commitment.
- Recognise group dynamics, anxiety and system pressures in a coaching situation and choose whether individual, team or systemic coaching offers most leverage.
What you'll develop
Across this Explore, you will develop the ability to:
- Distinguish training, coaching, mentoring and counselling, and identify which conversation you are in.
- Explain Gallwey's formula of performance as potential minus interference, and his Self 1 and Self 2.
- Explain how a coaching conversation takes a coachee once around Kolb's experiential learning cycle.
- Apply Ellis's ABCDE model to bring an unhelpful belief into view and dispute it collaboratively.
- Plan a coaching session by clarifying whether it is about development or performance and choosing a suitable setting.
- Distinguish individual, team, group and systemic coaching and choose where the most useful leverage lies.
Built from 4 parts.
5 hours 30 minutes of learning.
- 01The coaching conversationCoaching and mentoring basics and the GROW modelBitesize3 modules
- 02How people learn and growAdult learning and solution-focused coachingBitesize2 modules
- 03Changing the thinkingCognitive behavioural coaching and techniquesBitesize2 modules
- 04Seeing the whole systemTavistock psychodynamic and team coachingBitesize2 modules
Keep going.
Part of the Coaching and Mentoring topic, also sold whole as Growing people well.
Go deeper, and pay only the difference
- You are hereExplore, 5 hours 30 minutes, £129
- The whole topicImmerse, Growing people well, 10 hours 30 minutes, £249. Already own the Explore? You pay £120.
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms