Coaching and Mentoring
The responsibility of leading a team provides a leader with the opportunity to coach and mentor individual team members, as well as the team as whole. Building upon a leader or manager’s performance management skills, topics may include: coaching conversations; coaching for high performance teams; and workplace mentoring and mentorship strategies and techniques.
What you will learn
By the end of this course you should be able to:
- Gain a broad understanding of key definitions, purposes distinctions, benefits, ethical implications, roles, and responsibilities.
- Identify the attributes, skills, and strategies of an effective coach/mentor.
- Engage in a coaching conversation: establish a relationship, elicit coachee needs, create an action plan, and a follow-up.
- Employ active listening strategies and ask powerful questions in both a coaching and mentoring context.
This course has no prerequisites
Students from all educational backgrounds welcome. You can register for this course without applying and enrolling in a program.
Currently counts towards:
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└ elective course
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└21-hour course option
Applicants intending to enrol in a program are encouraged to apply as soon as possible to lock in their course requirements since they are prone to change.
*If you are already enroled in this program, please refer to your specific program requirements as outlined at the time of your admission: Bear Tracks > Academic Advisement.
When will this course be offered?
New course schedules are released each June and November.