Program start date | Application deadline |
2025-01-30 | - |
2024-10-03 | - |
Program Overview
This program focuses on developing practical coaching skills for leadership roles through workshops, tutorials, and seminar sessions. Students engage in coaching conversations and critically reflect on their practice, demonstrating their understanding of coaching principles and their application in leadership. Key learning activities include peer coaching and the establishment of a supportive community of practice.
Program Outline
Other:
The module will comprise of theoretical lectures, workshops, tutorials and seminar sessions to facilitate the development of the fundamental knowledge, understanding and skills underpinning the roles and responsibilities of coaching and its application within leadership. The development of knowledge, skills, confidence and competence to select and apply a range of coaching skills within leadership practice. Emphasis will be placed on how the skills of the professional leader may be utilised to coach peer practitioners to help them reach their full professional potential. A key learning activity for this module is practical work in which students practise their coaching skills and through peer group learning develop a functional, supportive community of coaching practice. The whole student group are required to participate in a collaborative, facilitative and supportive manner at each study day.
University of Hertfordshire
Entry Requirements:
- Students will conduct a coaching conversation and complete a structured critical reflection on that coaching conversation evidencing practical ability, knowledge and understanding of coaching practice and principles and their application within leadership.
- You should have a current healthcare professional registration (NMC, HCPC etc) and be employed as a health care professional with leadership responsibilities in an appropriate area of practice.
- Applicants will normally need a degree in a health-related discipline. Applicants with evidence of professional development or academic proficiency equivalent to level 6 (degree level) study will be considered but will first need to meet with the admissions tutor, Aileen Wilson, to discuss their application. Applicants with no previous level 6 study, or equivalent, will be required to complete a level 6 bridging module.
- If you have non-UK academic qualifications, you will need to supply evidence of comparability.