Coaching and conversation skills are crucial in today's organisations around the world. These skills help create a positive, psychologically safe and supportive work environment that improves employee satisfaction and performance, and ultimately leads to better results for the organisation.

To communicate more effectively and successfully with others, you need good coaching and conversation skills that are based on sound psychological, cultural, and organisational-theory foundations. The other person will feel valued, accepted, and heard. Moreover, these skills are essential for promoting diversity and inclusion in the workplace by understanding, acknowledging, and respecting individual differences. These skills are also essential for promoting collaboration and teamwork, because they help you to understand and respect the perspectives and beliefs of others.

If you're interested in this minor and think it could take you further in your career, apply! The minor in Coaching in Organisations is a collaboration of the studies in Business Administration, Learning & Development and Applied Psychology.

Outline

You will conduct an authentic coaching programme and recruit two coachees - persons who receive coaching - with real development questions at work. Examples are:

• I prefer to be in charge, but I need to delegate more for my health. How can I go about doing that?

• One of my employees has recently been performing poorly. I've addressed him countless times about it, but it doesn't solve anything and even ends in an argument. I need to take action because this cannot continue.

• I have a problem with my Dutch colleagues' directness. How can I handle it better?

• I am pretty introverted, but I would still like to work in the department where we interact with the public on a regular basis. What steps should I take?

During five to six 1-hour coaching sessions, you will use basic conversation skills, supplemented with specific coaching techniques, and interventions to address such work-related development questions. Some examples of methods to be applied include solution-focused coaching, motivational interviewing, body-centered work, and performance coaching. You tailor the coaching sessions to the wishes and possibilities of your coachee.

You are the tool via which coaching takes occur. As a result, understanding yourself is critical. Throughout this minor, you will meticulously reflect on yourself, what you have learnt, and your activities as a coach. This leads to increased self-awareness and the ability to make professional decisions that not only improve the quality of the coach-coachee relationship, but also the attainment of specific goals. In addition, your professional development will accelerate.

Knowledge improves understanding and underpins the coaching process. Therefore, we believe it is important that you are able to conceptualise and analyse the coachee's personal development question by connecting relevant psychological, organisational, and cultural theories and models to the situation in which this development question occurs.

Through training sessions, supervision, working groups, and lectures, you will work on the aforementioned topics, as well as others, to improve your knowledge and skills. A team of experienced lecturers with expertise in individual coaching, (neuro)psychology, business, biology, team coaching, pedagogy, international management consulting & coaching, and organisational anthropology, will support your professional development process.