MSc in Coaching & Behavioural Change
Organisations are increasingly looking to coaching - conducted by both dedicated coaches and line managers to help executives work through challenging business issues. To contribute effectively to the business agenda a coach needs the ability to align coaching objectives to business objectives. The MSc in Coaching & Behavioural Change is unique in its emphasis on the organisational context for coaching and in the inclusion of an MBA - style management challenge as an integral part of the programme.

Programme director
Dr Patricia Bossons

*with an additional 6 months for writing up assignments if required.

Who is it for?

This MSc programme is designed for those who are using, and intend to develop further, a coaching approach either in a line management role or as a professional freelance executive coach. Managers may also be seeking to build a business-focused coaching culture within their organisations. Participants will typically have a good first degree or an equivalent professional qualification and a minimum of 5 years' management experience, however applications are welcomed from individuals with substantial knowledge, experience and skills in a relevant field who do not meet these requirements. An excellent level of English is required and proficiency testing may be requested.

Content

This qualification in achieved in three stages. Successful completion of each stage is required before progression to the next:

Stage 1

Includes the Professional Certificate in Coaching and Neuro Linguistic Programming for Behavioural Change. This would typically take 9 months, involve 3 x 2 day residential workshops for the Certificate and 2 x 3 plus 1 x 4 day workshops for the NLP practitioner training. A 2 day coaching supervision workshop concludes Stage 1 which is assessed through two 5000 word assignments.

Exemptions from this stage are available for prospective participants who currently hold the Professional Certificate in Coaching or the ITS NLP Practitioner qualification. Please contact us to discuss.

Stage 2

Includes modules in Advanced Coaching Practice, Group Dynamics & Systems Thinking and Becoming a Reflective Practitioner. This stage takes around 9 months, involves 3 x 2 day and 3 x 3 day residential workshops and 3 x 1 day coaching supervision workshops. This stage is assessed through three 5000 word assignments.

Coaching supervision workshops: These start in Stage 1 and continue throughout Stage 2. They review different models of coaching supervision, offer practice in coaching supervision skills and enable participants to receive coaching supervision in a small group.

Stage 3

Includes the management challenge and a personal project. This stage would typically take around 9 months and involves 2 written assignments one of 15,000 words and one of 5000 words.

Benefits

Completion of the MSc will allow participants to:

• Understand the dynamics of coaching relationships; individual, team and organisational.
• Experience and practice the art of coaching supervision.
• Increase their range of coaching tools and techniques and know when and how to deploy them.
• Develop the analytical and problem solving skills that facilitate coaching of senior managers.
• Build an understanding of the psychological processes involved in behavioural change and how coaching can be used effectively to support this.
• Build mastery and confidence in coaching by broadening and deepening students' knowledge and understanding of themselves and others.
• Apply their coaching skills to a management challenge that will develop their ability to align coaching with business objectives.