Course Syllabus

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

1. To introduce you to the fundamentals of coaching, regardless of discipline or focus
2. 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:

1. What is coaching?
2. Building Your Confidence
3. Boosting Your Creativity
4. Techniques for Working with Your Client
5. Introduction to Modeling
6. Giving Productive Feedback
7. The Meta Mirror
8. Managing Relationships
9. Introduction to Problem Solving
10. A Closer Look at Getting Stuck
11. Managing Difficult Situations
12. Planning for the Future
13. A Closer Look at the GROW Model
14. Group Coaching
15. 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.