Exploring career mentoring and coaching: Online Course from OpenLearn

This free course, Exploring career mentoring and coaching, will explain what mentors and career coaches do and how a colleague or expert who can ask the right questions, challenge assumptions, and ...

Syllabus

- Introduction and guidance
- Introduction and guidance
- What is a badged course?
- How to get a badge
- Acknowledgements
- Week1Week 1: Where am I starting from?
- Introduction
- 1 Definitions
- 1.1 Defining mentoring
- 1.2 Defining coaching
- 1.3 Defining career coaching
- 2 Are mentoring and coaching different or the same?
- 2.1 Differences and similarities
- 3 Reviewing my own experience
- 4 Making time for this course
- 5 This week’s quiz
- 6 Summary
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Week2Week 2: Knowing myself
- Introduction
- 1 What is self-awareness?
- 1.1 Increasing my self-awareness
- 2 Telling my story
- 2.1 Telling my career story
- 2.2 Broader prompts
- 3 Visualising my future self
- 4 What might get in my way?
- 5 This week’s quiz
- 6 Summary
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Week3Week 3: Key skills
- Introduction
- 1 What makes a good mentor or coach?
- 1.1 What makes a good mentor?
- 1.2 What makes a good coach?
- 2 Building rapport and trust
- 2.1 Focusing on empathy
- 3 Listening and questioning
- 3.1 Listening
- 3.2 Questioning
- 4 When mentoring or coaching don’t work
- 4.1 Characteristics and issues
- 5 This week’s quiz
- 6 Summary
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Week4Week 4: Understanding mentoring
- Introduction
- 1 A brief history of mentoring
- 2 What can mentoring do?
- 3 The mentoring process
- 4 Who benefits from mentoring?
- 5 Mentoring misconceptions
- 6 This week’s quiz
- 7 Summary
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Week5Week 5: How can mentoring help me?
- Introduction
- 1 Setting goals and objectives
- 2 Using models and frameworks
- 2.1 The 5 C Model
- 2.2 The G-STAR model
- 3 Finding the right mentor
- 4 Becoming a mentor
- 4.1 Building your mentoring skills
- 5 This week’s quiz
- 6 Summary
- References
- Further reading
- Acknowledgements
- Week6Week 6: Understanding career coaching
- Introduction
- 1 A brief history of coaching
- 2 What can coaching do?
- 3 Why coaching works
- 4 Coaching misconceptions
- 5 This week’s quiz
- 6 Summary
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Week7Week 7: How can career coaching help me?
- Introduction
- 1 Person-centred coaching
- 2 Cognitive behavioural coaching (CBC)
- 3 The Grow Model
- 4 Finding the right coach
- 4.1 Where to look for a coach
- 5 Becoming a coach
- 5.1 Building your skills
- 6 This week’s quiz
- 7 Summary
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Week8Week 8: What next?
- Introduction
- 1 What have I learned?
- 2 Planning my next move
- 3 Mentoring and coaching training and resources
- 3.1 Mentoring training
- 3.2 Coaching training
- 4 The future of mentoring and coaching
- 4.1 The future of mentoring
- 4.2 The future of coaching
- 5 This week’s quiz
- 6 Summary
- Where next?
- Tell us what you think
- References
- Acknowledgements

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