Start your journey toward personal mastery

As a coach or leader, you need to be able to provide clear instructions to motivate others, but how do we provide this if we don’t confidently know and understand ourselves?

If you think of yourself as an instrument of leadership, then self-awareness is the single-most-important quality to ensure your leadership success.

On this two-week course, you’ll learn how to apply strategies to enhance your self-awareness and how to apply the notions of personal mastery to your role as a coach or leader.

Discover your personal core values

You’ll examine how to improve your emotional intelligence by evaluating your core values and how these may impact your coaching.

You’ll produce your own plans to understand how your personal standards dictate your actions, and how you can use this knowledge to inform your leadership decisions.

Understand the importance of self-awareness in becoming an effective leader or coach

By the end of this course, you’ll understand how self-awareness helps improve your coaching and leadership skills.

Going on a journey of personal mastery, you’ll discover how you may have to let go of some previously held behaviours, beliefs, values or intentions.

You’ll learn how to make internal fine-tuning to become a more impactful leader and be able to apply what you have learned to your own life.

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.

Learning on this course

On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

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
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
Evaluate your values and actions to inform your leadership decisions

Who is the course for?

This course is aimed at anyone with an interest in sports or business coaching. You may already work in the area and want to expand your skills, or you might be completely new to the coaching.

Who developed the course?

Deakin University

Deakin University is one of Australia’s largest universities with more than 61,000 students and over 15,000 online.

Established
1974
Location
Melbourne, Australia
World ranking
Top 280Source: QS World University Rankings 2021

Learning on FutureLearn

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Map your progress

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Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate

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