Program Presentation
The Coaching’s theory and practice is a recent and rapid discipline. Currently, Coaching is considered as one of the most innovative and efficient methodologies, when achieving a greater welfare and better results for the human being, in the personal and organizational field. The training provided by this master's degree allows you to obtain a university degree with a professional approach.
The master's degree aims to provide a much connected training with the professional context. The theoretical foundations of Coaching, its different scope of applications and methodological models, as a scheme that allows deepening in the Coaching process.
From a perspective oriented towards action, the program’s design responds to this purpose from the subjects’ didactic approach. The program deals with the tools that will be useful during the guidance and accompanying processes that may be carried out, offers a training as a professional oriented to the Coach’s key skills, in accordance with the International Coach Federation (ICF) standards; and Coaching’s practice, through accompanying sessions supervised by the teaching staff, tutors and coaches, accredited professionals and with a consolidated experience in the discipline.
Lastly, it is important to highlight that the program boosts the personal growth of the students, since it helps them train and develop their coach’s skills. An approach based on experience learning is key to work as a coach. Possible professional careers are those that are specific to the professional who works as a Coach, taking part and accompanying in the development, learning and awareness processes, in the personal and organizational field.
Students who successfully complete this Master's Degree will be qualified to:
- Analyze and understand the Coach’s function and identity and the essential contribution it makes during the Coaching process.
- Distinguish and apply the different models and approaches used to cope with the change processes.
- Reaching the adequate skills as a Coach, basing on the 11 key competencies and the values boosted by the International Coach Federation (ICF) as to be a professional who complies with the adequate quality standards to be a Coach.
- Use the linguistic tools (conversational model), the emotional tools (management of emotions) and body tools (non-verbal communication processes and techniques) that are useful in the Coaching processes.
- Design, implement and assess change, development and transformation processes, aimed at achieving results, co-create awareness and solve breaks, be they personal or organizational.
- Develop the essential competencies for the Human and Work Teams Management in extremely competitive organizational environments.
- Identify strengths and areas for improvement in the organization that are a way for change.
- Manage processes where the Team Coaching intervenes, as well as to know how to manage processes in different fields, for example: personal, educational, health or sports fields.
Who is the programme for?
The Master’s Degree in Personal Coaching and Organizational Leadership is designed for professional s from any sector, from any area belonging to the business pyramid or consulting firms, who has experience in managing people.
As well, the program is thought for Coaching professionals who want to complete and strengthen their training on the most updated and innovative methodologies in this discipline, as well as develop and strengthen their skills as a Coach, improve their capacity to lead, coordinate and guide other in their transformation processes, and extend their tool box as Coaching professionals.
The proposed training methodology, in addition to the clarity, extension and didactics in the contents’ design, it allows the Master's Degree in Personal Coaching and Organizational Leadership to be aimed at professionals, managers or entrepreneurs who want to train themselves in Coaching to apply it to the organizational field, in order to acquire techniques to improve their abilities to manage, lead and inspire their partners as to achieve better and new results.
The Master’s Degree is aimed at people holding a degree in Psychology, Medicine, Nursing, Law, Psycho-pedagogy, Advertising or Business Administration and Management, Education or other similar degrees.
Diploma
The successful completion of the Program will allow the student to obtain the degree of MASTER IN PERSONAL COACHING AND ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP, issued by the University where he or she has registered.
Program Structure
The credit structure of the Master in Personal Coaching and Organizational Leadership program is shown in the following table. It should be noted that the duration is merely indicative, as the methodology followed integrates the knowledge and skills to be acquired in each part through integrative exercises of knowledge acquisition and internalization of project practices:
| MODULES | CREDITSa |
|---|---|
| 1st Part: Theoretical foundations and discipline sources | 12 |
| 2nd Part: The Coach’s skills and abilities | 11 |
| 3rd Part: Coaching tools and techniques | 12 |
| 4th Part: The Coaching process and its application fields | 12 |
| 5th Part: Coaching in the Organizations: | 11 |
| 6th Part: Supervised training: Coaching in Action | 15 |
| 7th Part: Final Project | 17 |
| TOTAL | 90 |
a. The equivalence in credits may vary according to the university where he/she has enrolled. One (1) ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) credit is equivalent to 10 + 15 hours. If the student is enrolled in a university that does not belong to the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), the relation between credits - hours may vary.
Duration
The Master in Personal Coaching and Organizational Leadershi has 90 credits.
The duration of the Master in Personal Coaching and Organizational Leadershi varies between 12 and 24 months, depending on the student's dedication. In this period of time, the student must have successfully passed all the evaluated activities and approved the Final Project.
Objectives
General Objective
- Training professionals in the Coaching discipline, via the development of their skills and abilities as Coaches, the insight in the different useful and needed tools to be able to accompany and obtain improvement results in the development and accompanying processes, within the conceptual and methodological approaches that support Coaching.
Specific objectives
- Analyze and understand the Coach’s function and identity and the essential contribution it makes during the Coaching process.
- Distinguish and apply the different models and approaches used to cope with the change processes.
- Reaching the adequate skills as a Coach, basing on the 11 key skills and the values boosted by the International Coach Federation (ICF) as to be a professional who complies with the adequate quality standards to be a Coach.
- Use the linguistic tools (conversational model), the emotional tools (management of emotions) and body tools (non-verbal communication processes and techniques) that are useful in the Coaching processes.
- Design, implement and assess change, development and transformation processes, aimed at achieving results, co-create awareness and solve breaks, be they personal or organizational.
- Develop the essential competencies for the Human and Work Teams Management in extremely competitive organizational environments.
- Identify strengths and areas for improvement in the organization that are a way for change.
- Manage processes where the Team Coaching intervenes, as well as to know how to manage processes in different fields, for example: personal, educational, health or sports fields.
Career Opportunities
The professionals who successfully complete the Master in Personal Coaching and Organizational Leadership of FUNIBER will be able to exercise in the following institutions and areas:
- Personal Coach and Organizational Coach
- Coach for work teams, executives, managers or entrepreneurs
- Business consultant
- Professionals and managers at all the levels of the organizational pyramid
- Specialists in Recruitment and Staff Training
Study Plan
The Master in Personal Coaching and Organizational Leadership consists of 7 blocks or modules with 13 subjects:
| 1st PART: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS AND DISCIPLINE SOURCES | |
|---|---|
| # | SUBJECTS |
| 1 | Coaching origins and theoretical foundations |
| 2 | Discipline sources to support Coaching |
| 2nd PART: SKILLS AND ABILITIES OF THE COACH | |
|---|---|
| # | SUBJECTS |
| 3 | Coach competencies |
| 4 | Coaching and Neurolinguistic Programming |
| 3rd PART: COACHING TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES | |
|---|---|
| # | SUBJECTS |
| 5 | Tools for the Coach |
| 6 | Mindfulness and Coaching |
| 4th PART: THE COACHING PROCESS AND ITS APPLICATION FIELDS | |
|---|---|
| # | SUBJECTS |
| 7 | The Coaching process |
| 8 | Coaching application fields |
| 5th PART: COACHING IN THE ORGANIZATIONS | |
|---|---|
| # | SUBJECTS |
| 9 | Organizational Leadership and Coaching |
| 10 | Coaching Marketing and Personal Branding |
| 6th PART: SUPERVISED TRAINING | |
|---|---|
| # | SUBJECTS |
| 11 | Coaching in Action: Supervised Coaching Process. |
| 7th PART: FINAL PROJECT | |
|---|---|
| # | SUBJECTS |
| 12 | Scientific Research Methodology |
| 13 | Master’s Degree Final Project |
Note: The contents of the academic program may be subject to slight modifications, depending on the updates or the improvements made.
Management
- PhD. Vanessa Yélamos Torres. PhD in Education, Iberoamerican International University (in process). Master’s Degree in Integral Coaching, Instituto Superior de Coaching de Barcelona. Accredited as a Professional Coach by ASESCO (in process). Master’s Degree in Systemic Coaching, Uiversitat Autònoma de Barcelona, together with the Instituto Sistémico de Barcelona, Spain. Degree in Psychology, University of Barcelona. Training in Systemic Constellations and Neurolinguistics Programming. Specialist in Coaching Techniques. Program with ACSTH certification by the ICF. Professional experience linked to online teaching in subjects such as Coaching, management of emotions, Leadership, Change Management. Experience as a psychologist and coach, offering online and face-to-face spaces, where the clients are able to carry out vital discovering, learning processes and personal and professional transformation. Participation in various seminars and workshops about Systemic and Transformational Coaching. Collaboration in educational projects. Complementary training in online spaces.
FUNIBER Training Scholarships
The Iberoamerican University Foundation (FUNIBER) allocates periodically an extraordinary economic item for FUNIBER Training Scholarships.
To apply, please fill out the information request form that appears in the web of FUNIBER or contact directly the Foundation’s headquarters in your country that will inform you if you need to provide some additional information.
Once the documentation is received, the Evaluation Committee will determine your application's eligibility for the FUNIBER Training Scholarship.