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Interest in and the use of coaching and mentoring in organisations, and as methods of personal, professional and management development have grown significantly. The research signals many unanswered questions about current practice and this module promotes an evidence-based approach to enable the development of intellectual, social and professional skills necessary to design, apply and practise coaching and mentoring programmes in organisations and their application in supporting personal and performance development.  It encourages a questioning of simplistic and prescriptive accounts of coaching and mentoring in order to develop a critical awareness and understanding of the potential and limitations of coaching and mentoring models, frameworks and associated theories.  It explores the implications for professional practice and requires students to reflect critically on theory and practice from an ethical and professional standpoint.

• Definitions and meanings attached to coaching and to mentoring; purposes and limitations of coaching and of mentoring; distinctions, connections and relationships of the two concepts; types and contexts of coaching, for example personal, performance and executive coaching; types and contexts of mentoring, for example career, professional, peer and personal mentoring; developments in coaching and mentoring frameworks, both historical and recent;
• Fundamentals of the coaching and mentoring processes; psychological theories of personal and organisation growth and change; theories of individual learning and emotional intelligence and critiques of these; theories of personal and interpersonal communication and relationships and critiques of these.
• Individual and organisational factors influencing application of coaching and mentoring strategies and programmes; principles of formal and informal strategies and programmes of coaching and mentoring; resource implications of formal and informal programmes; criteria for selecting models and frameworks as design features of coaching and mentoring programmes.
• Personal and professional skills and competences to deliver and provide effective coaching and mentoring; approaches to monitoring and assessing personal effectiveness as a coach and mentor; approaches to and methods of evaluating professional practice as a coach and mentor; being flexible and creative to respond to varying and changing contexts; assessing and diagnosing client contexts; selecting and applying models and frameworks of practice as a coach and mentor.
• Definitions and understandings of ethics including philosophical bases; the similarities and differences of notions of equality and diversity; notions of professionalism and professional practice; implications for and applications in professional practice associated with coaching and mentoring; rationales for and processes of continuing professional development (CPD); a range of CPD methods.

On completion of this module, learners will be able to:

1. Critically assess a range of models and frameworks of coaching and of mentoring.
2. Demonstrate and apply an informed and critical understanding of psychological theories and concepts informing the design and use of coaching and of mentoring, including a range of theories related to learning, emotional intelligence and personal and organisation change and development.
3. Design and implement organisation-based coaching strategies and mentoring strategies and programmes, taking account of a range of contextual factors.
4.  Provide skilled, professional and effective coaching and mentoring services to individuals in a range of organisational, professional and personal contexts.
5. Act ethically and professionally with a demonstrated commitment to equality of opportunity and diversity in coaching and mentoring practice and to continuous personal and professional development.

Work Based Learning delivery students will devise an agreed work plan with their Advisor to meet their individual learning needs to achieve the module learning outcomes

The Library Catalogue contains full details of the current reading list for this module. Further details may also be found in the Module Guide.