APPLIES TO ACADEMIC YEAR 2016/2017 Norwegian version

BIK 2915 Coaching, Mentoring and Positive Psychology RE-SIT EXAMINIATION

Responsible for the course
Stig Ytterstad

Department
Department of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour

Term
According to study plan

ECTS Credits
7,5

Language of instruction
Norwegian

Introduction
Personal development, manager as coach and coaching culture
This advanced course is suitable for participants who have completed previous ground course in coaching and want a further practical appliance of the coaching and mentoring. This might imply developing their own leadership style in direction of manager as coach, or further develop their approach to consulting and teaching, inspired by coaching. Helping individuals and teams to "flourish" is the overall purpose of coaching. Hence we will support and challenge participants in developing both their professional role and their personal role. The ideal being the full and meaningful life.The scientific foundation of coaching is positive psychology and cognitive behavioural coaching and mentoring constitute the practical tools.

Learning outcome
Objectives for knowledge acquisition
Students should have acquired

1. Insight into positive psychology as a scientific foundation to coaching and mentoring
2. Knowledge of their signature-strengths and three life strategies
3. Understanding of mentoring and cognitive behavioural coaching
4. Knowledge of different tecniques based on cognitive behavioural theory
5. Understanding of the significance of talents/strengths and positive emotions in order to succeed with coaching inspired conversations and a coach-like leadership style.

1. Identify your personal signature-strenghts and talents, as well as broaden your potential
2. Apply the" tool kit of coaching and mentoring" in your professional and personal life
3. Skills in structured dialogues based on positive psychology
4. Start using the manager coach approach, i.e. coach-like managerial style and/or a coaching approach to consulting and teaching practice
5. Do some ground work, which over time, might further your development as a skilled partner in dialogues.

1. Altruism as basis for helping employees, managers and customers to succeed
2. Awareness of the value of reflecting on personal values, thinking patterns and behaviours
3. Awareness of the significance of good networks as well as close relations to continuous deveopment
4. Conscious and on-going evaluation of pitfalls and success criteria in coaching, including identifying" red flags".
5. A constructive, critical approach to both theories and "tools" in coaching and mentoring, as well as awareness of possible positive and negative consequences of such tools

• Constuctivism: The individual as creator of meaning. Choosing your own reality
• Experimenting in order to test thoughts and ideas
• Developing your own theory
• Eclectism and pragmatism

• Positive psychology: Identify and develop character and signature-strengths, as well as talents
• Develop positive joy and positive emotions
• Develop positive teams, organizations and institutions
• Develop your professional role and your personal role
• Make people flourish. Live the whole and meaningful life

• The pleasant life: Savouring. Focus on enjoyment and avoidance of pain (Hedonism)
• The engaged life: Flow and realization of your potential (Eudaimonia)
• The meaningful life:Working for something larger than yourself. Helping others succeed (Altruism)
• Finding your own balance and harmony. Applying signature-strengths as tools

• Wisdom, curiosity, creativity, intuition, courage, emotional intelligence, self-discipline
• Gratitude, optimism, hope, joy, etc. as ressources
• Correlations of signature-strengths and different performance enhancing variables

• Strengthsbased coaching: From looking for weaknesses to identifying talents and possibilities

• Money. Career. Calling
• Developing authentic leadership: Self reflection, self awareness and "triggers"

• Positive feelings regarding the past: Gratitude, pride
• Positive feelings regarding the future: Optimism, hope, faith, trust
• Positive feelings regarding the present: Joy, enthusiasm, mindfullness, savouring, flow

• Working with thoughts, emotions and behaviour
• The method, step by step

• What might prevent goal achievement? Automatic, negative thinking patterns
• Identifying thinking traps. Established thinking patterns, metaphors and habits - barriers to creativity?
• Strategies for overcoming internal barriers?

• Social context characterized by low performance and social context characterized by high performance
• 4 leves: Identification of facts. Understand interactions. Understand emotions. Understand values
• Performance or/and learning mindset?
• Agreement of contract. Listening. Investigate. Action. Evaluation

• Narrativ coaching: Developing positive self-dialogue
• Peer coaching: Helping each other to succeed. Eight stages
• Career coaching: Goals, tasks and processes. Life stages in career coaching
• Executive coaching: Knowing yourself. Owning yourself. Being yourself. Helping others do the same
• Team coaching: Differences between leading and coaching teams
• Transactions analyses: Ego, scripts, position and flow

• Ethical considerations and "red flags" of coaching
• Identifying possibilities and broadening the action scope
• From my present, actual self to my future, ideal self. Strategies for further development.
• Critique of coaching