Executive and Business Coaching

The aim of this module is to provide you with the space to develop and deepen your understanding of advanced coaching and mentoring practices, while reflecting on how these insights can enhance both your practice and personal wellbeing. You will explore advanced concepts, theories, and models, gaining the ability to critically evaluate and apply these frameworks to real-world scenarios.

This module moves beyond individual coaching and mentoring, addressing the development of structured coaching and mentoring schemes and personal interventions within organisations. You will learn to justify and apply your understanding within a work-based context, supporting organisational development and change strategies.

By broadening your perspective on advanced coaching and mentoring practices, this module lays the foundation for integrating, advancing, and applying your skills, competencies, and decision-making capabilities. We will help build your confidence and capabilities to more effectively support and nurture others, empowering them to see themselves clearly and realize their goals.

This module is designed to help you surface your authentic self and hone your agility in recognizing and adapting to different coaching encounters. You will learn to delve deeper into narratives and identify the dynamic tensions between foreground and background contexts, thereby supporting effective growth and transformative change.

Assessment: 4,000-word reflective assignment

The aim of this module is to empower you to harness the transformative power of team coaching, enabling you and your peers to reach your full potential, build resilience, and achieve extraordinary results through collective effort. By delving into team coaching tools, you will learn how team characteristics, dynamics, and the broader organisational context influence team and organisational growth. This module promotes deep personal and collective learning, encouraging collaborative sharing, co-creation, and action.

Team members often struggle with fully appreciating or committing to collaborative work due to hidden assumptions and ingrained practices. We provide you with the space to step back and see the bigger picture through dialogue and storytelling. This approach helps expose team dynamics, allowing you to apply individual and collective coaching techniques that enhance teamwork effectiveness.

Our module emphasizes the development of active and collective listening skills, fostering an environment where team members are more aware, present, and perceptive. This heightened awareness promotes understanding and the growth of safe, inclusive, and trusting relationships. In this supportive environment, team members are encouraged to exchange ideas, provide feedback, and seek innovative solutions. By creating better ways of working and thinking, you will maximize the collective potential, becoming more energized and empowered to achieve both personal and collective goals.

Assessment: 4,000-word reflective assignment

Students will embark on an enlightening journey, exploring a rich array of concepts, theories, models, and techniques designed to cultivate a profound and systemic understanding of the supervisory role within a unique collaborative learning process. We offer you the space to reflect deeply on your coaching and mentoring relationships, empowering you to foster a mutual trust that encourages open dialogue, uncovers blind spots, and reveals opportunities for personal growth for both you and your mentors.

Our programme guides you in discovering the transformative value of coaching relationships, enhancing your skills, and promoting self-care by creating an environment where coaches can share their insights. Through this collaborative space, you will master the art of coaching, becoming more adept at supporting and inspiring those you guide.

Assessment: 4,000-word reflective assignment

The dissertation represents a transformative and independent research endeavour, emphasizing action learning and practical impact. Delegates are expected to showcase their ability to apply the deep learning and understanding acquired during their studies, along with the skills developed in specific modules, to their chosen research area within the coaching and mentoring field. The dissertation assessment evaluates your capacity for analysis, synthesis, evaluation, and sustained individual effort, culminating in two key components: a research proposal and the actual dissertation.

Under the guidance of a dedicated dissertation supervisor/coach, both the proposal and the dissertation are meticulously developed. This comprehensive and rigorous project allows you to engage in transformative, in-depth research and academic writing within a self-selected area related to coaching, mentoring, wellbeing, learning and people development, leadership, and/or governance. This process provides a platform for you to demonstrate your knowledge and originality in applying theory and data collection techniques to business research, ultimately leading to the production of a scholarly thesis that reflects profound insights and transformative outcomes.

Assessment: Proposal 4,000 words and dissertation 15,000 words