Online Class: Coaching Techniques

Name: Coaching Techniques
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This course lays a comprehensive foundation for coaching, introducing topics, techniques, and approaches that coaches implement across disciplines in their work to help their client base succeed.

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15

Lessons
17

Exams &
Assignments
523

Students
have taken this course
10

Hours
average time
1.0

CEUs

Course Description

Welcome to Essential Coaching Techniques, a course focused broadly on the field and practice of coaching. This course has two purposes:

To introduce you to the fundamentals of coaching, regardless of discipline or focus
To provide you with exercises that will prepare you to begin your coaching practice, and provide you with real tools for working with clients

This course lays a comprehensive foundation for coaching, introducing topics, techniques, and approaches that coaches implement across disciplines in their work to help their client base succeed. Students who enroll in this course will work through fifteen comprehensive topics. The lessons will define the specific topic, explain its significance for coaches and their coachees, and provide exercises that correlate with these topics. This structure will allow you to build a toolbox of techniques and may help you define your coaching methodology. The course is broken into the following fifteen lessons:

What is coaching?
Building Your Confidence
Boosting Your Creativity
Techniques for Working with Your Client
Introduction to Modeling
Giving Productive Feedback
The Meta Mirror
Managing Relationships
Introduction to Problem Solving
A Closer Look at Getting Stuck
Managing Difficult Situations
Planning for the Future
A Closer Look at the GROW Model
Group Coaching
Increasing Self Awareness

The course is appropriate for any individual who may be interested in developing a coaching methodology as well as anyone who is looking to implement these techniques in their personal or professional life.

Courses Frequently Bought Together:

Wellness Coaching

Career Coaching

How to Be Your Own Life Coach

Completely Online
Self-Paced
6 Months to Complete
24/7 Availability
Start Anytime
PC & Mac Compatible
Android & iOS Friendly
Accredited CEUs

Universal Class is an IACET Accredited Provider

Course Lessons

Average Lesson Rating:

"Extraordinarily Helpful"

(133 votes)

Lesson 1: What is Coaching?

11 Points

In this lesson, we will define what we mean by coach in this context, consider the value of coaching as a discipline, and outline the most common types of coaching. Additional lesson topics: The HeART of Laser-Focused Coaching: A Revolutionary Approach to Masterful Coaching; 101 Coaching Strategies and Techniques Essential Coaching Skills and Knowledge

Complete Assignment: Why this Course?
Assessment: Lesson 1 Exam

Lesson 2: Building Your Confidence

10 Points

These exercises will focus on establishing a practice of self-reflection that can help you better understand yourself plus your motivations and will ultimately improve your trust in your gut, pushing you to work beyond your comfort zone, and improving your understanding of your own body language and the body language of others. Additional lesson topics: 15 simple exercises to increase your self-awareness; Expand Your Comfort Zone; How to Read Body Language – Revealing the Secrets Behind Common Nonverbal Cues

Assessment: Lesson 2 Exam

Lesson 3: Boosting Your Creativity

10 Points

These exercises will focus on fostering creativity as a way to create productive conflict among colleagues, and using mind mapping to encourage creative problem-solving. Additional lesson topics: Why You Need Team Conflict and How to Make It Productive; How to Use Mind Maps to Unleash Your Brain's Creativity and Potential

Assessment: Lesson 3 Exam

Lesson 4: Techniques for Working with Your Client

10 Points

In this lesson, we will consider each segment of the interaction with the client in turn. This breaks down into the techniques that you can implement prior to meeting with your client to help set the stage for your session together, the techniques that you can implement while you are meeting with your client to focus the session and ensure productivity, and the techniques that you can implement after your meeting with your client to ensure forward progress and keep your client accountable. Additional lesson topics: The 3-Step Coaching Session Structure; Concluding your coaching session

Assessment: Lesson 4 Exam

Lesson 5: Introduction to Modeling

10 Points

In this lesson, we will define what we mean by modeling in this context, introduce an exercise designed to help clients cultivate successful habits through modeling, and introduce an exercise designed to explore different dimensions of a skill through modeling. Additional lesson topics: Modeling Step-by-Step guide

Assessment: Lesson 5 Exam

Lesson 6: Giving Productive Feedback

10 Points

In this lesson, we will define what we mean by feedback, how we understand it to be productive specifically, and introduce an exercise designed to help coaches construct a meaningful feedback structure with their clients and key stakeholders. Additional lesson topics: 8 Examples of Constructive Feedback With Sample Scenarios; A 6-Part Structure for Giving Clear and Actionable Feedback

Assessment: Lesson 6 Exam

Lesson 7: The Meta Mirror

10 Points

In this lesson, we will do the following. Define the meta mirror, the perceptual positions associated with it, and its benefits, plus introduce an exercise designed to give clients the opportunity to take more control in the relationships they have with difficult people. Additional lesson topics: Metal mirror exercise; Steps to improve relationships

Assessment: Lesson 7 Exam

Lesson 8: Managing Relationships

10 Points

In this lesson, we will do the following. Consider the benefits of proactive relationship management, introduce an exercise designed to give clients hone their ability to influence or persuade those around them, and introduce an exercise that will help clients better understand differences in communication styles. Additional lesson topics: Understanding Your Communication Styles

Assessment: Lesson 8 Exam

Lesson 9: Introduction to Problem Solving

10 Points

In this lesson, we will do the following. Outline a general coaching approach to problem solving for coaches, turn these techniques inward to consider how coachee's can use problem solving to overcome their own internal struggles, and introduce an exercise that uses outcome frames, rather than problem frames, to guide problem solving. Additional lesson topics: Introduction to Problem Solving; Several Problem Solving Activities to Improve Creativity

Assessment: Lesson 9 Exam

Lesson 10: A Closer Look at Getting Stuck

10 Points

In this lesson, we will do the following. Examine how you can identify that your coachee is feeling stuck, provide general techniques for motivation, introduce an exercise that helps your coachee contextualize getting stuck within the creative process, and introduce an exercise that guides your coachee toward becoming unstuck and allows them to move forward Additional lesson topics: 17 Motivation Tools, Worksheets and Activities for You and Your Clients; Don’t Fret! Learn Where the Creative Process Gets Sticky- Part 1

Assessment: Lesson 10 Exam

Lesson 11: Managing Difficult Situations

10 Points

In this lesson, we will do the following. Explore common types of difficult situations that your client may encounter, introduce an exercise that helps your coachee increase their confidence during a difficult situation, and introduce an exercise that introduces your coachee to methods for handling poor performance. Additional lesson topics: 5 Workday Exercises That Will Improve Your Performance; How to Have Total Confidence in Any Stressful Situation; Dealing with difficult people and difficult situations

Assessment: Lesson 11 Exam

Lesson 12: Planning for the Future

10 Points

In this lesson, we will do the following. Consider what coaches might need to know about their coachee's motivations, past, and present as they look to guide future planning, introduce an exercise that helps your coachee map out their future plans specific to their career, and introduce an exercise that uses visualization techniques to help coachees map their future. Additional lesson topics: Laying the Groundwork for Successful Coaching Efforts; Several Benefits of Making Role-Play Part of Training

Assessment: Lesson 12 Exam

Lesson 13: A Closer Look at the GROW Model

10 Points

In this lesson, we will do the following. Define the GROW Coaching Model, introduce the fundamental, and guide questions that a coach can use in each step of implementation for the GROW Coaching Model. Additional lesson topics: The GROW Model Explained for Coaches; GROW Coaching Model – How to use it effectively Including 51 Coaching Questions

Assessment: Lesson 13 Exam

Lesson 14: Group Coaching

10 Points

In this lesson, we will do the following. Define what group coaching is, outline three techniques that you can employ in a group coaching practice, and introduce an exercise that uses unrealistic scenarios to encourage disruptive thinking. Additional lesson topics: The Ultimate Guide to Group Coaching; How to Master The Art Of Group Coaching; Several Key Coaching Skills for Leaders

Assessment: Lesson 14 Exam

Lesson 15: Increasing Self-Awareness

90 Points

In this lesson, we will do the following. Introduce an exercise that can help to foster a helpful, engaged attitude, introduce an exercise that allows coachees to recognize their strengths when they are in flow, and introduce an exercise that helps coaches maintain their concentration and feel psychologically present throughout their sessions. Additional lesson topics: Getting into Flow; Several Practical Ways to Practice Being Present; Live Life Better: Several Ways to Foster a Winning Positive Attitude

Lesson discussions: End of Course Poll; Course Comments
Assessment: Lesson 15 Exam
Assessment: The Final Exam

231

Total Course Points

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Course Title: Coaching Techniques

Course Number: 9770661

Lessons Rating: 4.47 / 5 Stars (133 votes)

Languages: English - United States, Canada and other English speaking countries

Category:

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Availability: This course is accessible online throughout all states, including California, Texas, Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, and Georgia. It's also available in top English-speaking countries like the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

Last Updated: May 2024

Course Type: Self-Paced, Online Class

CEU Value: 1.0 IACET CEUs (Continuing Education Units)

CE Accreditation: Universal Class, Inc. has been accredited as an Authorized Provider by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET).

Grading Policy: Earn a final grade of 70% or higher to receive an online/downloadable CEU Certification documenting CEUs earned.

Assessment Method: Lesson assignments and review exams

Instructor: John Chouinard

Syllabus: View Syllabus

Course Fee: $120.00 U.S. dollars