Acting as Coach and Facilitator - Study guide

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

- 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

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.

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.

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.

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.

This is a CONTACT implementation and remote participation is not possible. Participation to all evenings is not mandatory but highly encouraged.

Course learning approach is collaborative learning. Learning happens In Pasila workshops according to the Lukkari schedule, as well as individually and practising in pairs / teams outside classroom.

There are three main learning objectives:
1. To understand the concepts of coaching and facilitation, either at a basic level or by deepening one's own knowledge
2. To observe and develop interactions and interpersonal communication and to learn the basic elements of coaching-process (dialogue, asking questions etc)
3. Planning and implementing the facilitation process + the ability to select different facilitation methods according to objectives and situations.

The course approach is very interactive. The evenings consist of discussions, interactive coaching and facilitation exercises and orientative lectures. In addition to the contact workshops, learning requires self-directed study of the topic, and the submission of two personal learning reports. The learning process will be supported by a comprehensive methodological and resource bank in the course's Moodle environment. In additional, students may form and arrange voluntary peer / sparring groups for additional practice.

The course benefits all Masters students who wish to develop their coaching approach, coaching skills and competences as a facilitator.

Anita Pösö

The course materials / suggestions will be available on the course's Moodle learning environment. Te course does not require acquiring a specific book.

Some examples of literature related to the course is listed below

FACILITATION
Kaner, S., Lind, L., Toldi, C. Fisk, S. & Berger, D. Facilitator's guide to participatory decision-making.

COACHING
Starr, J. 2009. The Coaching Manual

Course material and topics translate into working life situations, abilities and know-how. Potentially also Guest Lecturer / Visit

Pasila Campus

No Exam

English

Internationality is provided by course content, materials, assignment, case studies (and makeup of students in the class).

19.08.2024 - 11.10.2024

Evaluation: Classroom activity = max 30 % Learning Report 1 (Journey to coaching and facilitation skills, weighted at 40% of the assessment) is a document focusing on personal learning Learning Report 2 (Facilitation experiment, weighted at 30% of the assessment) reports on the planning, implementation and reflection of you authentic group facilitation. Each participant is independently responsible for his/her own facilitation experiment, which can be carried out in his/her own work community, in another community/organisation or in a sparring group formed during the course.

03.06.2024 - 16.08.2024

This course workshops take place according to the schedule in Lukkarikone

Details for each days agenda will be provided in Moodle.

MALEAE
MASALE
EVENING
CONTACT
MAEXPE
BLENDED
MADIGE
MASTRE
EXCH
MACOME

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 and thus progress faster through their studies. More information and instructions for recognizing and validating prior learning (RPL) are available at
https://www.haaga-helia.fi/en/recognition-learning.

Instructions for course specific RPL requirements will be shared in the course Kick

Mirka Sunimento

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