Advanced Diploma in Coaching Educational & Career Development

What you will learn...

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Module 1: Coaching and Preparation (1 Day)

The boundaries, possibilities and limits of coaching; accreditation, ethical and legal professional issues - insurance, contracts, confidentiality and GDPR. Personal preparation: professional goals and objectives.

 

Module 2: Presence and Rapport (1 Day)

Grounding, breathwork, relaxation, focus, connecting, inviting, listening, summarising, questioning.

 

Module 3: Objectives and Identity (1 Day)

Client objectives, goals and identity: Behaviour, emotion, values, traits, states, situations, narrative.

 

Module 4: Facilitating Strategic Change (2 Days)

Developing Strategy: Purpose, motivation, reward, resources, self-efficacy and resistance to change. Holistic Change: Body, emotion, feelings, thinking, intuition. The Psychometrix CORE+ Model: Create, Organise, Relate, Engage + Outcomes.

 

Module 5: Coaching with Measures of Ability, Career Interests, Values and Personality (3 Days)

(Confers the BPS Certificate of Competence in Occupational Testing, TUOAP)

The course provides certified training in Occupational Testing, including administration, scoring/interpretation, analysis, feedback, reporting and coaching using tests of ability, career interests, motivational values and personality for use in your career guidance and coaching practice, including: 

• Verbal and Numerical Reasoning tests;

• The Personality & Values Questionnaire (PVQ), based on Cattell's 16PF/15FQ model, the latest in personality assessment for coaching combining 21 traits and 12 motivational values; 

• The Occupational Interest Profile (OIP+), a comprehensive assessment of 8 career interests and 8 personal work needs based on the 5-Factor model, linked to an extensive database of Occupational Titles associated with the client's career interests and personality

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Module 6: Coaching with Measures of Educational Attainment and Neurodevelopment (2 Days)

(Confers the BPS Certificate of Competence in Educational Testing, CCET) 

The course provides certified training in coaching educational support and development, including administration, scoring/interpretation, analysis, feedback, reporting and coaching using tests of cognition, academic achievement and neurodevelopment, including: 

• The Wide Range Intelligence Test (WRIT);

• The Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT5);

• The Weschler Individual Attainment Test (WIAT3-T);

• The ADHD Clinical Outcome Scale;

• The Dyslexia Screening Test.

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Module 7: Becoming and Being A Coach (1 Day)

Setting Up Practice: Purpose/Story, Community; Value/Pricing, Brand/Marketing, Administration.

Growing Your Practice: Self-care, Narrative, Vision, Expertise, Mastery, Supervision, CPD.