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Coaching Skills for Leading
Key information
Course Leader: Carys Armstrong-Griffiths
Level: 7
Credits: 15
Mode of delivery: Online and Face to Face
Learner Hours: Scheduled Hours - 30, Independent Hours - 120
Available places: 30
Dates
- 29/01/2026
- 09/10/2025
Fees and Funding
£915.00
The price quoted above is per 15 credits in this academic year. This price relates to self-funding students assessed as UK students for fee purposes. Prices may differ for students that are assessed as EU/Overseas, or for returning students that are on a course leading to an award. Click <here> for Fees and Funding information or <email us>.
Entry Requirements
Recommended that you are working in a leadership role.
Course Overview
The module aims to enable the student to understand the role of coaching in leadership and to evaluate a range of approaches to coaching and develop their own skills in coaching within their leadership practice. The module will comprise of theoretical lectures and workshops, to facilitate the development of the fundamental knowledge, understanding and skills underpinning the roles and responsibilities of coaching and its application within leadership.
A key learning activity for this module is practical work in which students practise their coaching skills and through peer group learning develop a functional, supportive community of coaching practice. This activity requires the whole student group to participate in a collaborative, facilitative and supportive manner at each study day.
Module Content:
-The role of coaching approaches within leadership.
-The development of knowledge, skills, confidence and competence to select and apply a range of coaching skills within leadership practice.
-Students will integrate learning with practical experience throughout the duration of the module.
-The application of an evidence-based approach to coaching practice will be a key theme throughout.
Knowledge and Understanding:
1. Evidence a systematic, in-depth knowledge and understanding of the underpinning theoretical perspectives and evidence that inform and support coaching as a leadership approach within healthcare.
2. Critically analyse leadership within contemporary healthcare settings.
Intellectual, Practical and Transferable Skills:
1. Critically evaluate, select and apply a range of appropriate coaching skills within a coaching context.
2. Critically reflect on their own leading and coaching practice, to inform and develop their future coaching and leadership practice.
Assessment:
Students will be required to facilitate a coaching conversation and critically reflect on their performance within that coaching conversation.
Number of Learner Hours:
1. Scheduled: 30
2. Independent: 120
3. Placement/Work based learning: 0
Please note that non-attendance on 09 & 10 Oct 25 will mean that you cannot continue to study the Semester A instance of the module.
Please note that non-attendance on 29 & 30 Jan 25 will mean that you cannot continue to study the Semester B instance of the module.
Learning outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding:
Successful students will typically:
Evidence a systematic, in-depth knowledge and understanding of the underpinning theoretical perspectives and evidence that inform and support coaching as a leadership approach within healthcare.
Critically analyse leadership within contemporary healthcare settings
Intellectual, Practical and Transferable Skills:
Successful students will typically:
Critically evaluate, select and apply a range of appropriate coaching skills within a coaching context.
Critically reflect on their own leading and coaching practice, to inform and develop their future coaching and leadership practice
Assessment
Students will conduct a coaching conversation and complete a structured critical reflection on that coaching conversation evidencing practical ability, knowledge and understanding of coaching practice and principles and their application within leadership.