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Coaching in Organisations

Module Synopsis

This module explores the role of coaching in organisations and how it differentiates from mentoring, counselling and supervision. It equips the manager with the capacity to assess the appropriateness of coaching in an organisational environment, along with foundational coaching skills. There is a focus on experiential learning and applicability to the student's professional situation.

Learning outcomes
  • Differentiate between coaching, mentoring, counselling and supervision
  • Understand and discuss the value and implications of coaching
  • Analyse coaching in a range of organisational settings
  • Develop a plan for coaching within an organisational setting
  • Determine the ethical implications of coaching with respect to professionalism, practice and boundaries
  • Develop greater understanding of your own beliefs, values and identity in the context of organisational counselling

Content areas
  • Historical Developments
  • Major Approaches to Coaching
  • Foundational Coaching Skills
  • Boundaries and Ethics for Coaching
  • Internal vs External Coaching
  • Assessing coaching outcomes
  • Coaching for self-awareness
  • Coaching for professional development
  • Coaching for leadership and change
  • Identify need and potential in self and colleagues for coaching
  • The personal and the professional - application of ethics and values to goal-setting
  • Negotiating the environment - implications of coaching and its effects in personal/family/work settings

Textbook and Readings
There is no set text for this module. Your readings are an integral part of your study.

Module Duration and Workload:
This module involves a total of 36 hours of face to face delivery or self-directed study including educator contact in flexible delivery modes, generating a further 120 hours of self-study per module including research and related study activities, including assessment. This translates as 13 hours per week for the module.

Study method:
On Campus, Distance Education and Online Education
The studies, combined with my previous work experience, have led me into a more satisfying role in an industry I know well. My studies have given me the confidence to manage a role where top notch "soft skills" are essential.
Pip Pearson
Graduate Diploma of Counselling