ILM Level 5 Diploma in Coaching and Mentoring
Vocational qualification
In Queensferry
Description
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Type
Vocational qualification Level 5
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Location
Queensferry (Wales)
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Start date
Different dates available
The Diploma in Coaching and Mentoring is the ideal qualification for managers with significant responsibility for coaching and mentoring as part of their day-to-day role. They are also designed to develop learners planning to move into a development role or start a career as a freelance coach and mentor.
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About this course
Benefits for individuals
Get a critical understanding of the role and responsibilities of the workplace coach and mentor
Deepen your understanding of how coaching and mentoring can impact an organisation
Be able to assess your own skills, behaviours and knowledge as a coach and mentor
Provide evidence of your own development as a coach and mentor through the qualification
Plan your further development
Plan, deliver and review coaching and mentoring in your organisation.
Benefits for employers
Ensure the managers you develop as coaches or mentors are properly equipped with the skills, knowledge and ethical understanding they need
Develop a coaching and mentoring culture in your organisation, so that managers are able to provide effective support for the development of others and improve their performance.
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Subjects
- Coaching
- Mentoring
- Workplae Coaching
- Workplace Mentoring
- Communication Skills
- Organizational Skills
- Decision Making
- Counselling Psychology
- Psychology
- Business Studies
Course programme
There are four mandatory units in this qualification -
The first unit, 8580-500 - ‘Understanding the skills, principles and practice of effective management coaching and mentoring’ aims to enable learners to understand the role and contribution of coaching and mentoring, and build a business case.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand the purpose of coaching and mentoring within an organisational context
- Understand the skills, behaviours, attitudes, beliefs and values of an effective coach or mentor
- Understand the role of contracting and the process to effectively coach or mentor
- Understand the principles of effective coaching or mentoring in practice and how to evaluate benefits
The second unit, 8580-503 ‘Reviewing own ability as a management coach or mentor’ aims to give learners the ability to critically review their own personal qualities, skills and competence.
Learning Outcomes:
- Be able to assess your own skills, behaviour and knowledge as a coach or mentor
- Be able to critically review and reflect on the effectiveness of your own practice as a coach or mentor
- Be able to demonstrate how you have developed and how you plan to develop in the future as a coach or mentor
The third unit 8580-501 'Undertaking Management Coaching or Mentoring in the Workplace' requires learners to demonstrate their ability to plan, deliver and review at least 12 hours of coaching and mentoring in the workplace.
Learning Outcomes:
- Be able to plan and prepare for management coaching or mentoring programmes based on identified developmental needs and goals
- Be able to undertake and record at least twelve hours of formal coaching or mentoring activity with one or more clients
- Be able to reflect and review own management coaching or mentoring practice
The final unit 8580-502 'Undertaking an Extended Period of management Coaching or Mentoring in the Workplace' is an extended 100 hours of coaching and mentoring, with multiple clients, and there is an added focus on using supervision and reflective review to develop individual practice.
Learning Outcomes:
- Be able to plan and prepare for management coaching or mentoring programmes based on identified developmental needs and goals
- be able to undertake and record at least hundred hours of formal coaching or mentoring activity
- Be able to reflect and review own management coaching or mentoring practice
- Be able to use supervision and reflective learning to develop and improve own management coaching or mentoring practice
Progression:
This qualification will provide progression opportunities to other new qualifications such as:
- ILM Level 5 Award, Certificate or Diploma in Leadership and Management
- ILM Level 7 Certificate or Diploma in Executive Coaching and Mentoring
ILM Level 5 Diploma in Coaching and Mentoring