About this course

CMI Unit 7020 Leadership Coaching and Mentoring Skills is about developing skills and practices that support coaching and mentoring activities across the organisation.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of the course, you will:

1. Understand how coaching and mentoring programmes support business objectives
2. Understand the implementation of coaching and mentoring to achieve organisational objectives
3. Be able to devise an implementation plan
4. Be able to evaluate the impact of the coaching and mentoring plan
5. Understand how to develop skills as a leader in coaching and mentoring

Course content

1.1 – Evaluate the benefits of coaching to an organisation

1.2 – Evaluate the benefits of mentoring to an organisation

1.3 – Assess how coaching programmes support business objectives

1.4 – Assess how mentoring programmes support business objectives

1.5 – Develop guidelines and protocols for programmes based on accepted coaching and mentoring theory and practice

1.6 – Develop a coherent, congruent statement of ethics for coaching and mentoring programmes and activities across the organisation

2.1 – Discuss the organisational and resource implications of coaching

2.2 – Discuss the organisational and resource implications of mentoring

2.3 – Explain how to overcome organisational and individual resistance to the implementation of coaching

2.4 – Explain how to overcome organisational and individual resistance to the implementation of mentoring

3.1 – Devise an implementation plan to install coaching programmes within an organisation

3.2 – Devise an implementation plan to install mentoring programmes within an organisation

4.1 – Evaluate the impact to an organisation of establishing coaching culture

4.2 – Evaluate the impact to an organisation of establishing mentoring culture

5.1 – Assess current skills of communications and people development to support personal practice of coaching

5.2 – Assess current skills of communications and people development to support personal practice of mentoring

5.3 – Identify development opportunities to meet personal skills needs and to develop own practice

5.4 – Evaluate skills and practices and produce a personal development plan in relation to coaching skills

5.5 – Evaluate skills and practices and produce a personal development plan in relation to mentoring skills