Master of Business Coaching

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The Master of Business Coaching has been designed to appeal to a broad range of people interested in business coaching including: those already working as business coaches without formal qualifications, internal business coaches working within companies, those working as individual or executive coaches who wish to strengthen their business understanding, consultants or counsellors who wish to develop their coaching skills, people undertaking a change of career, and managers who wish to develop coaching skills as part of their management approach.

The focus of the degree is to apply coaching methodologies to business contexts and develop skills such as effective questioning, listening, goal setting and giving feedback. Students will develop an understanding of the application of coaching to business strategy and planning, innovation, business improvement and change management, and undertake a coaching research project.

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

On completion of this course students will be able to:

1. Analyse contemporary coaching-related theory and research and effectively translate knowledge into interpersonal processes and practices that support high quality coaching relationships.
2. Critically evaluate the suitability of different measurement approaches in coaching contexts and utilise them to rigorously evaluate, and communicate, the impact of coaching services.
3. Demonstrate the ability to manage the quality of your coaching practice via the analysis of self-assessment, self-reflection, service evaluation and/or feedback data collected.
4. Conduct an ethical coaching research project, based on a critical analysis of previous research, appropriate methods for gathering and analysing data, and communicate its findings in both oral and written form.
5. Formulate ethical responses to challenges encountered within the coaching process, such as dealing with client mental health issues, using an array of intrapersonal and interpersonal skills.

Entry Requirements

Academic requirements, English requirements and credit transfer information are available from the Course Finder.

Course structure

Candidates are required to complete ten (10) core subjects (72 credit points).

* The pre-requisites for the subject TBS 960 Business Coaching Research Paper are TBS 863 Introduction to Business Coaching and TBS 864 Applied Coaching Skills.

PLEASE NOTE:

Subject and session offerings may change prior to the commencement of session. Students are advised to check the latest information available on the Subject Database.

A summary of subject session offerings is available here.

Credit Arrangements

Upon successful completion of the Master of Business Coaching students may apply to enrol in another of the School's Masters Programs and apply for credit for previous postgraduate studies. Those graduates who meet the MBA entry requirements may apply to enrol in the MBA program, and be eligible for up to 4 subjects (24 cps) credit towards the MBA, namely TBS900, TBS903, TBS922 and one MBA elective subject.

Candidates should consult the Program Director for further information.

Other Information

All applicants will be required to attend an interview, conducted by the Sydney Business School.

Additional information is available from http://www.uow.edu.au/business or contact the Program Director.