Program Modules

CAREER COACH

The Career Development Practitioner

Program Modules

2022

CAREER COACH

The Career Development Practitioner

Program Modules

2022

CAREER COACH

The Career Development Practitioner

Core Modules

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Module 1. Career Coaching Foundations - Man in the Context of Work

This module lays out foundation of coaching and provides introduction to the world of work, career, and organizational context from coaching perspective. The focus of this module – is establishing a strong base of coaching relationships with the client – agreement, setting an objective of coaching and specific client’s goals of a coaching session.

Coaching foundations:

Functions and competencies of career coach
Career coaching as a specialization within Life Coaching
Coaching vs therapy vs counselling
A "Being" of the coach, reflection and continuous development
Levels and objectives of coaching. The GROW model
Coaching relationships, process of coaching, coaching competencies and ethics (ICF)
Building the relationships: Coaching agreement, contracting and setting up the environment
Practice: establishing agreement. Defining “gaps” and setting goals of the session with a client

Core Competencies of Module 1:

Demonstrates Ethical Practice
Embodies a Coaching Mindset
Establishes and Maintains Agreements
Maintains Presence

Application of coaching: Work, career and organization - the reality of your clients

Main aspects of the «the man and the organization» system, the philosophy and the meaning of career for a client
Key concepts: Authenticity, Self-determination, self-realization, calling, job vs. career, 'being' vs. 'doing'. Their application to work on client’s request
Choosing the path: influencing factors. Freedom and responsibility
Factors of importance in job and career
“Give-Get” equilibrium and consequences of imbalance: burning-out, downshifting
Specifics of key client’s groups: students, young professionals, managers, business owners

Ethical Aspects:

ICF Definition of coaching and professional coaching relationships
What you can offer as a coach, what to include in coaching agreement and what not
Confidentiality (your duty) and privacy (your client's right)

Practice:

Coaching in pairs with feedback and discussion

Module 2. Coaching Career Planning, Development and Career Management

This module goes deeper into career coaching process, challenges of modern working environments and careers; application of coaching approach, models and techniques to work on complex multi-level problems, preparing students to meet their clients and their real-life issues. It also focuses on raising client’s awareness of their whole, authenticity, integrity, strengths and values and applying those insights in their career.

Number of hours:

Coaching approach to career planning:

Conditions and components of positive changes
Raising client's awareness and expanding options through coaching
Manifestation of client’s whole, in their career
Helping client to trust oneself and own choices, dealing with fear and uncertainties
Deepening and maintaining openness and trust in coaching relationships
Three levels of listening a client, listening to own intuition
Reflection and learning as instruments of coach's growth and development

Core Competencies of Module 2:

Cultivates Trust and Safety
Listens Actively
Evokes Awareness
Facilitates Client Growth

Application of coaching: working together on complex career issues

Building an authentic career (model and its elements)
Models and instruments of carer coaching
Factors of motivation; calling and vision
Main types of career, coaching approaches to career development
Values, Interests, Strengths, Talents: discovering and realization
Coaching for setting career goal and planning
Writing a case

Ethical Aspects:

Roles in coaching relationships. Disclosure and confidentiality
Boundaries of coaching and limits of the coach
Warning signs: personal issues and conditions beyond the coaching scope or purpose

Practice:

coaching in pairs with feedback and discussion

Module 3. Practice I

Deepening and enriching students' experience with live coaching sessions and analysis of real-life cases. During this practice every student will have an opportunity to be involved in a coaching conversation with client as a coach, be an observer, receive and provide feedback. All sessions go under supervision of the certified coach that is ready to come to your (and client's) rescue. Students also use self-evaluation forms and receive a feedback.

Prerequisite:

Written case: a description real-live situation of a real person that can be used to practice coaching questions, models, find opportunities to apply competencies, distinguish hypothesis from assumptions, pay attention to biases

Process:

16 hours of in-class supervised coached practice, group work on cases, feedback and self-evaluation
3 hours independent work on cases, listening sessions, and work on individual development plan

Outcome:

Self-evaluation form on all competences.
Individual development plan

Competencies:

All competencies are in scope

Module 4. Career coaching in organizations

This module immerses students into organizational environment and factors that influence work satisfaction, motivation and self-fulfilment. It introduces specific models and instruments to help clients to actively explore opportunities and take responsibility for their career in organization. Module teaches application of coaching in organization, its place in different types of corporate cultures and roles of a coach (internal or external). It focuses on helping coach to empower client to fully realize their potential through everyday application of their strengths directed by their values toward their meaningful work and career goals.

Coaching in organizational context:

Places for coaching in organizational context
Roles of coach, internal and external coach
Raising client's awareness regarding their own goals, reality and options
Supporting client's authenticity, integrity, strengths and values through coaching
Challenge and inquiry, championing and acknowledgement

Core Competencies of Module 4:

Demonstrates Ethical Practice
Establishes and Maintains Agreements
Cultivates Trust and Safety
Maintains Presence
Evokes Awareness
Facilitates Client Growth

Application of coaching and Environmental Aspects:

Organization as a place where career occurs
Motivation, engagement, performance and self-fulfilment
Organizational gap model as a technique for powerful questions
Coach-competency for managers. Manager’s “traps” in coaching of employees
Special coaching models and instruments for organizational scenarios

Ethical Aspects:

Who benefits from coaching in organization?
Parties of the coaching contracts in organization. Who is your client?
Potential conflicts of interest
Responsibilities of coach, reporting, confidentiality and disclosures

Practice:

coaching in pairs with feedback and discussion

Module 5. Group Coaching

Number of hours: 16 (In-class). Homework and assignments: 2 hours

Group coaching is a special format of delivering of coaching to a group where each participant focuses on own goal, goes through own learning and insights, while being a part of supportive and collaborative group environment. In order to make effective and cost efficient format for both coaches and clients it requires preparation, mastering coaching competencies and group handling skills.

Coaching in group setting:

Applications of Group Coaching, benefits and limitations
Principles of group coaching, theories and models
Transition from individual to group format
Group coaching vs Team Coaching vs Facilitation
Roles of coach in a group process
Additional competencies required for effective group session
Career coaching process in group setting

Core Competencies of Module 5:

This module revisits all core competencies focusing on their application in group coaching:

Demonstrates Ethical Practice
Embodies a Coaching Mindset
Establishes and Maintains Agreements
Cultivates Trust and Safety
Maintains Presence
Listens Actively
Evokes Awareness
Facilitates Client Growth

Application of group coaching:

Setting a topic, forming a group
Design of coaching program - principles and practical steps
Group coaching process and phases
Practical techniques, tools and models
Dealing with group dynamics, conflicts, phases of group building

Ethical Aspects:

Who sets the topic and the agenda for coaching session?
Parties of the group coaching. Who is your client?
Potential conflicts of interest
Coaching agreement with a group

Practice

Participant (“coach”) provides a practice group coaching sessions for group of volunteers (“clients”) under supervision

Module 6. Mentor Coaching, observed coaching and feedback (Practice II)

Number of hours: 17 (one-to-one and in group). Independent practice coaching and self-evaluation: 8 hours

Structure and Format

This module contains two parts: (I) group and (II) individual:

Part I: Group mentoring starts after Module 1 and provided in 7 group mentor coaching sessions by 1h 45 min each over 5 months (one group session after each core module and 2 sessions during Module 6 Part II).

Part II: Individual mentoring starts after Module 5 and has individual schedule for each participant. It includes 3 individual (one-on-one) coach mentoring session – 1.5 hour each

This module is delivered in a combination of 1-to-1 and group format. Each student will receive three individual 1.5-hour sessions and seven group sessions of 1 h 45 min each aimed to further develop their coaching competencies, skills, and address specific challenges with their learning and development. Those sessions have a format of mentor coaching focused on their development through practice-feedback-reflection cycle. This module involves significant amount of independent work by the student: coaching practice, making transcripts, self-evaluation and reflection. Students must submit 3 recorded coaching sessions with their clients. During the session the supervisor provides a feedback and work with student on improvement of their competencies and other aspects of their coaching.

Prerequisite:

3 audio recording of coach session with a client (not with another student) and transcription
Self-evaluation form on all competences

Process:

3 individual sessions (4.5 hour) focused on strengths and areas for development
7 group sessions (12.5 hours) where student focuses on 1-2 competencies on each session
8 hours of independent work: recording own coaching sessions, making transcripts, and reflection form
Setting development objectives and work on individual development plan (core competencies, coaching process, skills, application of models and instruments)

Outcome:

Written feedback on observed levels of all competencies (for 3 recorded sessions).
Individual development plan

Competencies:

All competencies should be demonstrated

Additional professional development modules

Those two modules are optional. Students may take any one or both. Certificate of completion will show the actual list of modules and number of hours based on all modules student completed.

Module 7. Modern technologies of job market

Number of hours: 16 (In-class).

This module is 80% "Resource development" content as it focuses on providing a coach with resources that can be helpful in their work in different career fields. This module gives you comprehensive overview of job search strategies, tools and techniques that your clients might have used or not, or had problems with. Knowledge of those terms, tools, their application and pitfalls would help you to question deeper and challenge client's assumptions and concerns, empowering both coach and client with resources and confidence required to develop highly effective job search plans and move into action. Although this module provides some expertise in the field, there is an emphasis on how to stay in coach position if you have expertise you client may need.

Core competencies. This module also contributes 2 hours towards development of your core ICF competencies: Demonstrates Ethical Practice and Establishes and Maintains Agreements. Those competencies must be applied in order to properly present your services and to achieve complete clarity in your agreement with client about their expectations, objectives and methods of your work.

If you are on job market as a coach, you will find those tools and technique very helpful for your own job search

Main topics:

Staying in coach position when you have an expertize that client lacks.
Elements of a highly effective job search plan. Best practices
From plan to action
Strategies and approaches to job search in different industries and markets
Terms, tools and techniques: positioning, elevator speech, small talk, hidden market
Resume, CV, cover letter, follow-up letter - forms and styles
Networking
Global job market, getting job in other countries and in foreign companies

Competencies:

Demonstrates Ethical Practice
Establishes and Maintains Agreements

Module 8. Coaching as your career and business

Number of hours: 16 (In-class)

This module is focused on development of you as a career practitioner, managing your own career or development of your professional and reflective practice. This very practical module will help you to apply your knowledge and competencies from previous modules to planning, goal setting, designing actions and managing progress in your own career and business.

Core competencies. This module also contributes 2 hours towards development of your core ICF competencies: Demonstrates Ethical Practice and Embodies a Coaching Mindset. Those competencies must be applied in order to properly present your services and to focus on self-development and mastering your coaching skills

Coaching as profession:

Professional paths of coach and career coach
Other career services. Career practitioner as a profession
Job market, coaching in different industries
Types of clients, forms of coaching, specialization

Your career in organization:

Applications of coaching in your organization
Managing your career: goal, path, phases, self-development
Applying your knowledge in career planning and coaching competencies towards yourself
Internal coaching, initiation of projects on career management and coaching

Development of own coaching practice:

Own coaching style, being authentic. Dealing with competition
Reputation and brand
What do you offer to clients? Personal value statement
Your market, niches, business strategy, SWOT analysis
Marketing, tools to reach your clients
'Pipeline' model: from prospect to client and returning customer
First session: needs of a client, proposal and entering into contract
Ethics in marketing and sales

Competencies:

Demonstrates Ethical Practice
Embodies a Coaching Mindset

Module 1. Career Coaching Foundations - Man in the Context of Work

This module lays out foundation of coaching and provides introduction to the world of work, career, and organizational context from coaching perspective. The focus of this module – is establishing a strong base of coaching relationships with the client – agreement, setting an objective of coaching and specific client’s goals of a coaching session.

Coaching foundations:

Functions and competencies of career coach
Career coaching as a specialization within Life Coaching
Coaching vs therapy vs counselling
A "Being" of the coach, reflection and continuous development
Levels and objectives of coaching. The GROW model
Coaching relationships, process of coaching, coaching competencies and ethics (ICF)
Building the relationships: Coaching agreement, contracting and setting up the environment
Practice: establishing agreement. Defining “gaps” and setting goals of the session with a client

Core Competencies of Module 1:

Demonstrates Ethical Practice
Embodies a Coaching Mindset
Establishes and Maintains Agreements
Maintains Presence

Application of coaching: Work, career and organization - the reality of your clients

Main aspects of the «the man and the organization» system, the philosophy and the meaning of career for a client
Key concepts: Authenticity, Self-determination, self-realization, calling, job vs. career, 'being' vs. 'doing'. Their application to work on client’s request
Choosing the path: influencing factors. Freedom and responsibility
Factors of importance in job and career
“Give-Get” equilibrium and consequences of imbalance: burning-out, downshifting
Specifics of key client’s groups: students, young professionals, managers, business owners

Ethical Aspects:

ICF Definition of coaching and professional coaching relationships
What you can offer as a coach, what to include in coaching agreement and what not
Confidentiality (your duty) and privacy (your client's right)

Practice:

Coaching in pairs with feedback and discussion

Module 2. Coaching Career Planning, Development and Career Management

This module goes deeper into career coaching process, challenges of modern working environments and careers; application of coaching approach, models and techniques to work on complex multi-level problems, preparing students to meet their clients and their real-life issues. It also focuses on raising client’s awareness of their whole, authenticity, integrity, strengths and values and applying those insights in their career.

Number of hours:

Coaching approach to career planning:

Conditions and components of positive changes
Raising client's awareness and expanding options through coaching
Manifestation of client’s whole, in their career
Helping client to trust oneself and own choices, dealing with fear and uncertainties
Deepening and maintaining openness and trust in coaching relationships
Three levels of listening a client, listening to own intuition
Reflection and learning as instruments of coach's growth and development

Core Competencies of Module 2:

Cultivates Trust and Safety
Listens Actively
Evokes Awareness
Facilitates Client Growth

Application of coaching: working together on complex career issues

Building an authentic career (model and its elements)
Models and instruments of carer coaching
Factors of motivation; calling and vision
Main types of career, coaching approaches to career development
Values, Interests, Strengths, Talents: discovering and realization
Coaching for setting career goal and planning
Writing a case

Ethical Aspects:

Roles in coaching relationships. Disclosure and confidentiality
Boundaries of coaching and limits of the coach
Warning signs: personal issues and conditions beyond the coaching scope or purpose

Practice:

coaching in pairs with feedback and discussion

Module 3. Practice I

Deepening and enriching students' experience with live coaching sessions and analysis of real-life cases. During this practice every student will have an opportunity to be involved in a coaching conversation with client as a coach, be an observer, receive and provide feedback. All sessions go under supervision of the certified coach that is ready to come to your (and client's) rescue. Students also use self-evaluation forms and receive a feedback.

Prerequisite:

Written case: a description real-live situation of a real person that can be used to practice coaching questions, models, find opportunities to apply competencies, distinguish hypothesis from assumptions, pay attention to biases

Process:

16 hours of in-class supervised coached practice, group work on cases, feedback and self-evaluation
3 hours independent work on cases, listening sessions, and work on individual development plan

Outcome:

Self-evaluation form on all competences.
Individual development plan

Competencies:

All competencies are in scope

Module 4. Career coaching in organizations

This module immerses students into organizational environment and factors that influence work satisfaction, motivation and self-fulfilment. It introduces specific models and instruments to help clients to actively explore opportunities and take responsibility for their career in organization. Module teaches application of coaching in organization, its place in different types of corporate cultures and roles of a coach (internal or external). It focuses on helping coach to empower client to fully realize their potential through everyday application of their strengths directed by their values toward their meaningful work and career goals.

Coaching in organizational context:

Places for coaching in organizational context
Roles of coach, internal and external coach
Raising client's awareness regarding their own goals, reality and options
Supporting client's authenticity, integrity, strengths and values through coaching
Challenge and inquiry, championing and acknowledgement

Core Competencies of Module 4:

Demonstrates Ethical Practice
Establishes and Maintains Agreements
Cultivates Trust and Safety
Maintains Presence
Evokes Awareness
Facilitates Client Growth

Application of coaching and Environmental Aspects:

Organization as a place where career occurs
Motivation, engagement, performance and self-fulfilment
Organizational gap model as a technique for powerful questions
Coach-competency for managers. Manager’s “traps” in coaching of employees
Special coaching models and instruments for organizational scenarios

Ethical Aspects:

Who benefits from coaching in organization?
Parties of the coaching contracts in organization. Who is your client?
Potential conflicts of interest
Responsibilities of coach, reporting, confidentiality and disclosures

Practice:

coaching in pairs with feedback and discussion

Module 5. Group Coaching

Number of hours: 16 (In-class). Homework and assignments: 2 hours

Group coaching is a special format of delivering of coaching to a group where each participant focuses on own goal, goes through own learning and insights, while being a part of supportive and collaborative group environment. In order to make effective and cost efficient format for both coaches and clients it requires preparation, mastering coaching competencies and group handling skills.

Coaching in group setting:

Applications of Group Coaching, benefits and limitations
Principles of group coaching, theories and models
Transition from individual to group format
Group coaching vs Team Coaching vs Facilitation
Roles of coach in a group process
Additional competencies required for effective group session
Career coaching process in group setting

Core Competencies of Module 5:

This module revisits all core competencies focusing on their application in group coaching:

Demonstrates Ethical Practice
Embodies a Coaching Mindset
Establishes and Maintains Agreements
Cultivates Trust and Safety
Maintains Presence
Listens Actively
Evokes Awareness
Facilitates Client Growth

Application of group coaching:

Setting a topic, forming a group
Design of coaching program - principles and practical steps
Group coaching process and phases
Practical techniques, tools and models
Dealing with group dynamics, conflicts, phases of group building

Ethical Aspects:

Who sets the topic and the agenda for coaching session?
Parties of the group coaching. Who is your client?
Potential conflicts of interest
Coaching agreement with a group

Practice

Participant (“coach”) provides a practice group coaching sessions for group of volunteers (“clients”) under supervision

Module 6. Mentor Coaching, observed coaching and feedback (Practice II)

Number of hours: 17 (one-to-one and in group). Independent practice coaching and self-evaluation: 8 hours

Structure and Format

This module contains two parts: (I) group and (II) individual:

Part I: Group mentoring starts after Module 1 and provided in 7 group mentor coaching sessions by 1h 45 min each over 5 months (one group session after each core module and 2 sessions during Module 6 Part II).

Part II: Individual mentoring starts after Module 5 and has individual schedule for each participant. It includes 3 individual (one-on-one) coach mentoring session – 1.5 hour each

This module is delivered in a combination of 1-to-1 and group format. Each student will receive three individual 1.5-hour sessions and seven group sessions of 1 h 45 min each aimed to further develop their coaching competencies, skills, and address specific challenges with their learning and development. Those sessions have a format of mentor coaching focused on their development through practice-feedback-reflection cycle. This module involves significant amount of independent work by the student: coaching practice, making transcripts, self-evaluation and reflection. Students must submit 3 recorded coaching sessions with their clients. During the session the supervisor provides a feedback and work with student on improvement of their competencies and other aspects of their coaching.

Prerequisite:

3 audio recording of coach session with a client (not with another student) and transcription
Self-evaluation form on all competences

Process:

3 individual sessions (4.5 hour) focused on strengths and areas for development
7 group sessions (12.5 hours) where student focuses on 1-2 competencies on each session
8 hours of independent work: recording own coaching sessions, making transcripts, and reflection form
Setting development objectives and work on individual development plan (core competencies, coaching process, skills, application of models and instruments)

Outcome:

Written feedback on observed levels of all competencies (for 3 recorded sessions).
Individual development plan

Competencies:

All competencies should be demonstrated

Additional professional development modules

Those two modules are optional. Students may take any one or both. Certificate of completion will show the actual list of modules and number of hours based on all modules student completed.

Module 7. Modern technologies of job market

Number of hours: 16 (In-class).

This module is 80% "Resource development" content as it focuses on providing a coach with resources that can be helpful in their work in different career fields. This module gives you comprehensive overview of job search strategies, tools and techniques that your clients might have used or not, or had problems with. Knowledge of those terms, tools, their application and pitfalls would help you to question deeper and challenge client's assumptions and concerns, empowering both coach and client with resources and confidence required to develop highly effective job search plans and move into action. Although this module provides some expertise in the field, there is an emphasis on how to stay in coach position if you have expertise you client may need.

Core competencies. This module also contributes 2 hours towards development of your core ICF competencies: Demonstrates Ethical Practice and Establishes and Maintains Agreements. Those competencies must be applied in order to properly present your services and to achieve complete clarity in your agreement with client about their expectations, objectives and methods of your work.

If you are on job market as a coach, you will find those tools and technique very helpful for your own job search

Main topics:

Staying in coach position when you have an expertize that client lacks.
Elements of a highly effective job search plan. Best practices
From plan to action
Strategies and approaches to job search in different industries and markets
Terms, tools and techniques: positioning, elevator speech, small talk, hidden market
Resume, CV, cover letter, follow-up letter - forms and styles
Networking
Global job market, getting job in other countries and in foreign companies

Competencies:

Demonstrates Ethical Practice
Establishes and Maintains Agreements

Module 8. Coaching as your career and business

Number of hours: 16 (In-class)

This module is focused on development of you as a career practitioner, managing your own career or development of your professional and reflective practice. This very practical module will help you to apply your knowledge and competencies from previous modules to planning, goal setting, designing actions and managing progress in your own career and business.

Core competencies. This module also contributes 2 hours towards development of your core ICF competencies: Demonstrates Ethical Practice and Embodies a Coaching Mindset. Those competencies must be applied in order to properly present your services and to focus on self-development and mastering your coaching skills

Coaching as profession:

Professional paths of coach and career coach
Other career services. Career practitioner as a profession
Job market, coaching in different industries
Types of clients, forms of coaching, specialization

Your career in organization:

Applications of coaching in your organization
Managing your career: goal, path, phases, self-development
Applying your knowledge in career planning and coaching competencies towards yourself
Internal coaching, initiation of projects on career management and coaching

Development of own coaching practice:

Own coaching style, being authentic. Dealing with competition
Reputation and brand
What do you offer to clients? Personal value statement
Your market, niches, business strategy, SWOT analysis
Marketing, tools to reach your clients
'Pipeline' model: from prospect to client and returning customer
First session: needs of a client, proposal and entering into contract
Ethics in marketing and sales

Competencies:

Demonstrates Ethical Practice
Embodies a Coaching Mindset

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