Course description
Certificate in Effective Coaching and Mentoring (ILM level 5)
At Bristol Business School, our portfolio of open programmes offers you and your business a flexible learning solution. We have a range of programmes covering a wide range of topics, including Finance, Strategy, Marketing, Leadership, Coaching and Mentoring, Innovation, and Design Thinking, among many others. Our programmes are delivered by experienced academics and practitioners, who combine cutting-edge thinking with a practical, real-world focus, ensuring our programmes meet professional and industry needs.
Our Certificate in Effective Coaching and Mentoring programme aims to give you the skills and experience to develop your coaching/mentoring skills by practically completing coaching/mentoring sessions and critically reviewing these.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Who is it for?
This programme is designed for:
- Managers with significant responsibility for effective coaching and mentoring as part of their daily role working with employees and colleagues within an organisational context
- Aspirational or early career freelance coaches or mentors offering coaching and mentoring to people within work settings
- Individuals aspiring to take up coaching or mentoring as part of their role*
Outcome / Qualification etc.
This qualification is accredited by the ILM.
Training Course Content
- What are coaching and mentoring? How are they perceived in organisations? What are my own perceptions? What skills, knowledge and capabilities are required? How do values and beliefs impact on coaching and mentoring? How can these activities be successfully structured? What is involved in contracting with individuals and organisations? How can I best learn and reflect on my development?
- How can I develop my coaching/ mentoring practice? What is its purpose? What theories and models are informing my practice? How can I work authentically with my values, beliefs and expertise? How can I work ethically? What are my skills, knowledge and attitudes and how do these compare to professional standards? How do I need to develop as a professional?
- What is the context of executive coaching and mentoring? What is their strategic purpose and impact? How do we develop coaching and mentoring cultures? What is the impact of power, organisational and wider societal contexts on coaching/ mentoring?
Course delivery details
The delivery of this programme will be blended with four sessions delivered on our online learning platform, and the remaining three sessions taking place at the Bristol Business School. This is located at UWE's Frenchay Campus, with easy access to the M4 and M5 motorways and Bristol Parkway rail station, it has four fully equipped training rooms, a communications and reception area.
To be able to fully participate in our programme, you will need to be comfortable with using the Internet and searching for information online. Session materials are presented through a number of sources including Microsoft Word, Power Point, pdf and online tools and workbooks to aid self-reflection and peer discussion, designed to support you further through your programme learning. You will also have full access to our online library resources, study skills support sessions, and librarian chat function.
It is crucial that you are able to commit to all the teaching days and fully participate in the learning. If exceptional circumstances arise which impact on your attendance on the learning days, please inform the tutor as soon as possible to catch up on learning missed.
This open programme has practical online development days designed to give you an opportunity to look, analyse and discuss with our tutors and your peers the subject area and explore possible approaches and tools and techniques available to use. You will also need to allow approximately 140 hours for independant study.
As a learner at UWE Bristol, you will also have full access to our library on campus and all online materials and resources.
Expenses
Course Price: £2325