Intro to Coaching | This course provides students a basic foundation for understanding and practicing coaching. Topics covered include: core coaching skills, coaching conversation model, the biblical basis for coaching, and how students can use coaching in their ministries or workplace. **This course is a prerequisite for all other courses.**
Establishing a Dynamic Coaching Relationship | This course will focus on creating a dynamic coaching relationship by understanding how to develop a professional coaching relationship. Focus will be given to increasing credibility through communicating awareness of intent and impact. The coach will also build the skills of helping the person being coached (PBC) orient around areas of strengths and high performance patterns. This course will also introduce the coach to establishing a coaching practice and ethical issues in coaching.
Coaching for Change, Transition and Transformation | This course provides students the knowledge and skills necessary for coaching people and groups through change. Attention is given to understanding different types of change, how to support people going through transitions, and how to use coaching to initiate positive change .
Coaching as a Brain-based Learning Catalyst | In the coaching relationship the coach is a learning partner in the person being coached’s (PBC) growth. This class will provide information on different learning styles, cognitive preferences, and learning processes that reflects how the brain works in order to generate powerful results in the person being coached. Skill development focuses upon incorporating the knowledge of learning into coaching questions, statements, and listening.
The Language of Coaching | This course will focus on the language of coaching. Students will explore the different uses of language, including distinctions, metaphors, stories, formulas, and other language formats that are effective when coaching.
Personal Coaching | This course provides students with practical tools that can be used when coaching clients in a wide range of personal, life and family issues. Special attention is given to helping the student develop the six basic components of personal coaching: goals, tolerations, needs, values, boundaries, and standards.
Coaching Teams | Students will gain an understanding of building authentic teams and develop the skills to coach around team dysfunction, use team covenants, and create alliances.
Coach Approach to Evangelism and Discipleship | This course provides students the knowledge and skills necessary to apply coaching to faith conversations. Attention is given to how a dialogical approach can be effective for evangelism and discipleship, how coaching can be expressed in the ministries of a local church, and the relationship between coaching competencies and Christian practices.
Growing Your Coaching Practice This course focuses on creating dynamic coaching relationships. Focus is given to orienting around strengths and high performance patterns. This course introduces students to the basics of establishing a coaching practice, ethical issues in coaching, and how to expand their coaching clientele.
Using Assessments, Inventories and Tools in Coaching This course provides students an overview of various assessments, inventories, and tools for creating awareness with coaching clients. Among the instruments addressed will be the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), the Leadership Practices Inventory 360 (LPI 360), Strengths Finder 2.0, and DiSC. Attention will be given to discerning which instruments are most useful in which client situations, what steps are necessary for utilizing various instruments, and how to promote effective client engagement with instruments.