Preparing for the Coaching Role, optional unit - CTLLS, accredited by CIPD

Coaching and mentoring is becoming a strategic lever for competitiveness and profitability. Organisations aim for managers to be coaches and aspire to achieve a coaching culture which raises many questions that are addressed in this course.
Source: Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development

Overview
This aim of this training programme is to enable participants to learn and develop practical coaching techniques to be used in an educational context. The Preparing for the Coaching Role unit is one of the optional units (value: 3 credits) within the Certificate to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector (CTLLS) training programme.

Aims and Objectives
To help you learn, in your capacity as an aspiring coach or mentor, how to:-

  • Understand your role as a coach
  • Identify learner’s needs
  • Coach learners effectively
  • Apply a range of coaching tools and techniques
  • Use reflective learning to improve your coaching skills

Duration of Programme
The Preparing for the Coaching Role programme is a 2 x 1 day workshop covering 10 guided learning hours. The 2 workshop days will not be consecutive; they will be run separately so that participants have time between workshop days to practice the skills they have learned (usually 4 weeks between sessions)

Assignment Work
Successful completion of an assignment will enable participants to achieve the Preparing for the Coaching Role unit accredited by CIPD. 

Course Content for Day One

Coaching perceptions  / Coaching reality – your role as a coach

 

Topics covered in the workshop, include the following:

  • Identify your coaching strengths and development areas
  • Identify appropriate opportunities for coaching
Identifying learner’s needs

Knowledge and understanding:

  • A variety of ways to identify learner's needs

The steps to effective coaching

 

Knowledge and understanding:            

  • A range of tools and techniques you can use as a coach
  • How to plan and run a coaching session
  • How to evaluate a coaching session

Importance of reflective learning

 

Knowledge and understanding:

  • Identification of further development areas
  • How to improve your coaching through reflection

Course Content for Day Two

Coaching perceptions / Coaching reality – your role as a coach

 

Topics covered in the workshop, include the following:

  • Refining knowledge, understanding and reflective skills in coaching

Identifying learner’s needs

Knowledge and understanding:

  • Knowing how to build support
  • Understanding how different people learn – Learning Styles

The steps to effective coaching

 

Knowledge and understanding:

  • Participants will run a practical coaching sessions within a supportive learning environment

Importance of reflective learning

 

Knowledge and understanding:

  • Opportunity to complete the required Coaching assignment within the training programme