
In Inspirational Coach and Leader minor is designed to support your personal development, coaching and leadership skills. You learn what professional coaching is and how it differentiates from other methods of personal development. You understand how through coaching the performance of individuals and teams can be successfully improved. The course introduces how a coaching-oriented leadership style differs from others, and why leaders who have coaching know-how and attitude are more successful. Various inspiring guest speakers, who are impactful coaches, bring in their expertise and insights. This interactive course includes various experiential personal development experiences, indoor and outdoor team-building events and fieldtrips. You will have the opportunity to develop yourself as an individual, build your personal brand and leadership skills.
Minor content
- Diving into your own personal development journey and finding out your needs, vision, mission, values.
- Identifying your personality type (profiling) and improving your personal and social competencies (impactful communication/presentation skills, conflict resolution)
- Learning about different types of coaching, its benefits and introducing professional coaching as an effective framework for inspirational employee/team development
- Practicing coaching skills in peer coaching groups
- Understanding team-dynamics and learning how to develop and lead high-performing teams
This minor is offered by the study program Human Resource Management.
Structure of the minor
Unit Learning Outcomes:
- Unit 1: Personal Development (5 EC's)
LO1: The student develops an understanding of personal development that demonstrates knowledge of how to self-market as a strategy for future career success
- Unit 2: Coaching & Leadership (5EC's)
LO2: The student analyzes coaching as a method for individual and organizational
development and how coaching differentiates from other learning modalities.
- Unit 3: Team Development
LO3: The student demonstrates how a coaching-based leadership style can be used to build and lead a high performing team
Study features
There are 3 assignments for this minor.
- Unit 1: Students are required to do a 10 minute pitch presentation about their personal brand and what they have learned in the minor (individual assessment).
- Unit 2: Students will write an industry report about coaching in industry (group assignment)
- Unit 3: Students will develop and present a student led seminar to showcase their skills (group assignment)
Inspirational Coach and Leader is accessible for students who have obtained a propaedeutic degree from a bachelor's programme and 30 credits from the post-propaedeutic programme associated with that programme.
Note: This minor includes deep personal development work through coaching and team building activities. You are expected to participate actively in each class by giving and receiving feedback. This minor may not be suitable for students who are currently going through mental health challenges.