Diploma in Career Coaching Level 6
In this diploma students will develop the ability to integrate Career Coaching theory, frameworks with a wide range of models and skills. This diploma is placed alongside the cultivation of the students own personal development and is oriented towards distinctive Career Coaching in New Zealand. The objectives are reflected in the learning outcomes and assessment of individual courses as well as in the overall programme.
Course Outcome
Upon completion of the course a student will have developed character, skills and abilities to lead them to becoming a professionally trained Career Coach. Upon completion of the course a student will be able to deliver a high level of professional readiness; demonstrate knowledge of coaching principles and concepts to a level where they are able to work independently and safely with others.
Course Structure
The course is made up of 10 core compulsory modules and these modules are completed in numeric order and two other modules that can be selected from a choice of five optional modules.
Course Components
Module One: Introduction to Career Coaching and Career Development Theory
In this module you will analyse career development theory and what career coaching is.
You will also synthesise the changing work environment in New Zealand with the analysis of the role of the career coach. Extensive work will consider the role of the inner self, work and life events and evaluate how this impacts upon the client and the coach.
Module Two: Values, Worldview, Culture and Discrimination
This module will examine core values, address issues of discrimination, discuss cultures and their diversity and will raise awareness of gender, racial and discrimination in professional life coaching practice. This module will give you extensive understanding of working with New Zealand cultures in the course of life coaching.
Module Three: Human Development in Coaching
This module brings together traditional frameworks of human development and integrates these with life coaching practice. Research of different developmental patterns of New Zealand people groups will also be examined. Stages of human development will be examined in the context of life transitions and the impact of these on the coaching relationship.
Module Four: Building Rapport with Clients
This module enables you as a life coach to construct a safe and challenging working environment with your clients, and analyses the skills required to build rapport, safety and effective attendance with clients. Collaboration in relationships will also be examined in conjunction with micro-skills, core conditions and internal frames of reference.
Module Five: Communication Skills and Coaching Conversations
This module discusses interpersonal and interaction skills, analysis of communication techniques and will evaluate effective listening and feedback skills. Overcoming communication obstacles is critical to effective life coaching and this module will build the skills for this. Discussion and examination of transference and counter transference issues, and the structuring of coaching conversations will be analysed in this module.
Module Six: Career Planning and Psychometric Tests and Tools
This module discusses different psychometric tests and the analysis of personality type as a base for career selection. You will explore the psychology of the interview process and apply this and other interview dynamics in the process of career planning.
Module Seven: Work and Working ? Contemporary Forms and Patterns
This module researches the many dimensions of non-standard work in New Zealand and evaluates the opportunities and challenges this poses for clients. You will also research the factors that have influenced the degree to which New Zealanders have participated in self employment and analyse the stimuli that have enhanced our positive perceptions of self employment. You will also research the implications for immigrants and Maori peoples in employment and grow an awareness of employment insecurity.
Module Eight: Life Coaching Models with specific focus on Coaching with Edge® Model.
This module will identify coaching strategies that are outside of the above modalities and will help you develop frameworks to use and apply in life coaching that will become key components in gaining action with your clients.
Module Nine: Career Needs in Coaching
This module helps you to critically evaluate models of human behaviour and politics in the working environment. You will develop a coaching framework to coach clients who are downshifting in their employment. This module also addresses office politics and career limiting moves and strategies that influence career advancement.
Module Ten: Ethics and Professionalism in Coaching
This module analyses the importance of life long learning as a coach, monitors your self care and discusses multiple role and boundary confusion in life coaching. You will develop a framework of ethics for building a practice to ensure client safety.
Select Two Modules from the following Five Modules
Module A: Self Employed and Family Business Coaching
This module will give you an ability to articulate the differences between an “employed attitude” and a “self employed attitude” and how this impacts upon the coaching relationship. You will utilise self-employment inventories with clients and research the characteristics of family business systems and the dynamics that this brings to career coaching. Analysis of governance structures, succession planning and the role of non-family executives in the future planning of an individual’s career will be explored in depth.
Module B: Youth Coaching ? Discovering Direction
This module helps you articulate the theories of work in the new millennium and the challenges this poses for young adults. You will also have the opportunity to empower clients in recognising key challenges and personal paradigms that unwittingly block their progress. You will apply the principles of career planning to help young adults build a career map for their future.
Module C: Women, Motherhood, Mid-life, Challenges and Choices
This module helps you analyse and evaluate the dynamics of women in the workforce. You will research the power of synchronistic events in a woman’s life and evaluate how an individuals harmony with these events can be a powerful motivator in their career planning. You will have the opportunity to articulate the theories of transition and psychology of mid-life transitions that clearly demonstrate an ability to work with women in career planning.
Module D: Men and Women Navigating Mid-Life Career Changes
This module helps you articulate the triggers for mid-life transitioning in careers and critically evaluate the deliberate actions and definitive results for people in mid-life. You will apply coaching principles that allow people to stay on course when they are struggling to stay focussed. Opportunity is also given for you to research the myths and realities of the mature workforce and help individuals to find the right fit in the Work-Family puzzle of life.
Module E: 80/20 Career Coaching ? Doing More in Less Time and Feeling Great About it.
This module discusses the principles of creating more with less in the working world. You are given the opportunity to develop a clinical framework of coaching clients in the 80/20 principles and formulate career plans based upon this framework. This module also researches the understandings of equilibrium in the workplace and how this can be achieved when coaching individual’s careers.