Acting as Coach and FacilitatorLaajuus (5 cr)

Contents

- Analysing one’s own coaching ability and development areas
- Coaching as an outlook on work and as an interaction skill
- Dialogic speaking and listening
- Relevance of facilitation and utilisation as a tool for service design, decision-making, co-creation and communal learning.
- Goal-oriented methods of facilitation
- Group dynamics
- Facilitation in practice

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No prerequisites. This course unit is part of the master's degree's curriculum. Completion of the course requires master's study entitlement.

Implementation methods, demonstration and Work&Study

Depending on the implementation, learning takes place in contact lessons, as independent studies, teamwork and/or online-studies. Implementations include coaching workshops, peer-coaching sessions and facilitation exercises. The course includes the assessment of one’s own learning

Recognition of prior learning (RPL)
If students have acquired the required competence in previous work tasks, recreational activities or on another course, they can show their competence via a demonstration. The demonstration must be agreed with the course teacher. More information and instructions for recognising and validating prior learning (RPL) are available at https://www.haaga-helia.fi/en/recognition-learning Look at "Instructions to students (master)"

Assessment criteria - grade 1

When the implementation type of the course is CONTACT, ONLINE or BLENDED it is required that the student is present during those teaching hours that are marked in the study schedule. If you are absent more than 25 %, your grade will be lowered by one. If you are absent more than 50 %, the course is failed.

The student knows the relevance of coaching-based cooperation, the counselling approach and interaction in organisational development. The student recognises his/her strengths and development areas as a coach and as a facilitator.

Assessment criteria - grade 3

In addition to the competencies in grade 1, the student can develop his/her skills as a coach and a facilitator, deepen and apply dialogic interaction competences and is able to put himself/herself in the position of the coach and the person being coached. The student experiments, tests and chooses facilitation techniques that aim to promote communal learning within the workplace.

Assessment criteria - grade 5

In addition to competences in grades 1 and 3, the student develops his/her skills as a coach and a facilitator according to self-set goals and applies his/her dialogic interaction and group coaching competences. S/he is able to reflect deeply on his/her actions as a coach and as a person being coached. The student can choose and justify the facilitation techniques that aim to promote communal learning in the work place.

Further information

When the implementation type of the course is contact, online or blended it is required that the student is present during those teaching hours that are marked in the study schedule. If you are absent more than 25%, your grade will be lowered by one. If you are absent more than 50%, the course is failed.