Coaching Essentials

Being able to coach yourself and others is essential to being an effective employee and manager and is even more relevant due to the pandemic.

Business coaching is a way of communicating that unlocks potential. It creates equitable relationships where individuals are empowered to learn, connect and succeed with each other. The most effective managers and employees actively employ coaching skills.

Those who choose to attend this coaching for business training course recognise that knowing how to coach is critical for their career advancement. They see coaching as a critical skillset in working with and managing others.

Some have gone on to become professional coaches and most have implemented coaching into their everyday lives.

This highly interactive coaching for business training course covers the foundations for becoming an effective coach including building relationships, structuring a coaching session and the key skills.

Sessions are delivered by a highly skilled coach and participants will engage in group discussions, activities and coaching pairs and trios.

Who is it for?

Our online Coaching for Business short course offers the ideal foundation for anyone looking to add to their toolkit one of the most valuable skill sets they could ever have – the coaching skill set. It is aimed at anyone in business, whether you are managing a team or simply wishing to learn the skills to become more coach-like in your job.

Timetable

This course takes place once a week, for 10 weeks. Sessions are 2 hours long.

City St George's Short Courses follow the academic year, delivering courses over three terms:

• Autumn - October
• Spring - January
• Summer - April

Benefits

• Learn with an experienced professional coach
• Learn practical skills that can be applied to real-world settings
• Develop key skills to become an effective coach yourself
• Study part-time across 10-weekly online evening classes

The Coaching for Business short course training will cover topics including:

• The foundations for becoming an effective coach
• Coaching roles, benefits, models and applications
• Communication skills, including listening, questioning and self-management
• Relationship building, such as creating rapport and the Connection Hierarchy
• Effective working relationships and coaching partnerships
• Professional coaching tools to improve self-management, enhance communication and change-limiting beliefs
• How to incorporate professional coaching tools at work, at home and in a one-to-one coaching setting.

Informal assessment will take place through group discussion, experiential activities, and questions and answers sessions as guided by your tutors.

There is no formal assessment, and you are not given any formal qualifications on completion of the course. However, if you attend 70% of the sessions you will be awarded an official City St George's, University of London certificate.

We do not ask for any qualifications to enrol in this course, only an enthusiasm for learning and a genuine interest in the subject area.

English requirements

You will need a good level of spoken and written English to enrol on this course.