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The Self-aware Coach (FutureLearn)

Offered by Deakin University,
The Self-aware Coach (FutureLearn)

Find out why self-awareness is so important in coaching and leadership, and learn strategies to apply to your own practice. Coaches and leaders need to be self-aware and emotionally intelligent, in order to provide clear instructions, advice and motivation to others. On this course, you’ll learn how to apply strategies to enhance your own self-awareness as a coach or leader.

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You’ll learn how to identify your own core personal values, and evaluate how these may affect your coaching and leadership practice.
You’ll discover how to make adjustments to your behaviour, in order to become more effective as a leader or coach.
You’ll examine why more self-aware coaches and leaders are more effective and productive.

What topics will you cover?

  • The importance of self-awareness
  • Notions of personal mastery and its application to your role as coach/leader
  • Insight into your intentions and motivations as coach/leader
  • Servant leadership
  • Applying a change process to your own life.

What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you'll be able to...

  • Apply strategies to enhance self-awareness and reflect on who you’re being as a coach/leader
  • Identify core personal values and determine how these may impact your coaching
  • Reflect on how your self-awareness helps you be a more effective coach/leader
  • Evaluate your values and actions to inform your leadership decisions
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