Postgraduate Certificate in Coaching and Development
Below you'll find information about our Postgraduate Certificate in Coaching and Development qualification (the first year of our MSc in Coaching and Development course).
Course content / features
Year one involves:
- 5 workshops over 10 days (includes a 1 day induction/research methods workshop at Portsmouth University Business School which takes place after Workshop 1)
- 2 x 4,000 word work-based learning projects
- 30 hours coaching practice
- 3 x virtual group supervision sessions
- Access to online learning resources e.g. films, webinars
- Access to Portsmouth University Library
- Guest faculty delivering master classes on specific coaching topics.
Year one workshop outputs
Foundation coaching skills
- Develop core coach competencies
- Understand the key skills and models for coaching and be able to apply these in a coaching relationship
- Define coaching and understand the range of coaching styles
- Understand the boundaries for a coaching relationship and how to contract effectively
- Explore the importance of supervision within coaching
- Learn to self-reflect and appraise coaching capabilities to identify areas for personal development in coaching, and plan for new learning.
Creating insights
- Exploring your vision and identity as a coach; understanding your signature strengths and areas of focus
- Becoming more self aware and emotionally intelligent as a coach
- Learning to self evaluate performance and ways of being as a coach
- Helping clients develop emotional intelligence and personal insight
- Exploring a number of different concepts and tools which generate personal insights in others and enable personal change.
Applied positive pyschology in coaching
- Understand different tools, concepts and approaches from Positive Psychology and how these can be used to impact learning and performance
- Helping a system and clients to become more resilient and have more of a strengths based focus
- Working with purpose and meaning
- Using transpersonal tools and techniques to create deep awareness and personal change.
Coaching leaders
- Understand key leadership models and frameworks
- Explore models, tools and concepts for effective leadership development
- Experience practical tools and techniques which are congruent with developing leaders
- Enabling leaders to create a vision for their leadership, to think strategically, to problem solve
- Coaching leaders in transition
- Assess participants' current level of coaching competence.
More information
- View the MSc course background and overview
- Read about the Postgraduate Diploma qualification (year two of the MSc)
- Read about the MSc qualification (obtained after three years of study with us)
- Find out about the course venue
For more information about our MSc programme, feel free to contact us.