About This Course
This is a flexible part-time, level 7 postgraduate short course delivered online.
The coaching dyad is often a very complex relationship. Both parties want to achieve success but often have opposing views. This module will focus on psychological and cognitive processes of the coaching dyad. Between and within person discrepancies are highlighted as an important aspect of the coaching dyad.
Who is this Short Course suitable for?
This short course is aimed at anyone who is interested in understanding how successful dyadic relationships work and why (e.g., coach/athlete, employer/employee, teacher/learner). The module will also focus on interventions that will help repair ineffective relationships.
Our learners have included people from across the UK, and more widely from across the globe. This short course is part of our MSc Performance Psychology (distance learning), and our alumni include:
- Professional sport coaches and instructors: Rugby, Cricket, Gaelic Football, and Endurance Running Coaches
- UK Coaching Team Members
- Elite Athletes: Professionals in football, gaelic football, cricket and rugby players, Golfers,
- Performance Directors for Professional Rugby Union Teams
- Opera Performers
- Professional Musicians
- Business Leaders
- Senior management from organisations such as MasterCard and Facebook
- RAF Helicopter Rear Crew
- Air traffic controllers
- Police Officers
- General Practitioners and Anaesthetists
- NHS Managers
Why study this course?
This course will focus on psychological and cognitive processes of the coaching dyad. Between and within person discrepancies are highlighted as an important aspect of the coaching dyad where opposing views are often problematic, and communication is key. The module will extensively examine coaching dyad relationships in terms of closeness, commitment, complementarity behaviours, and co-orientated views. Between and within person discrepancies will play a very large role throughout this course.
How long does this course take to complete?
This short course is delivered over a 12-week period. However, you will have access to all lecture material at the start of the course which will enable you to go as fast or as slow as your personal circumstances dictate.
Assessment
The purpose of the assessment is to provide students with an experience of applied consultancy that will help the student identify the principles of effective coaching and communication. This assessment will focus on the coaching dyadic relationship. Students are required to identify a dyad who are notworking effectively as they could. Initial observations and assessment will be conducted via a triangulation of methods i.e., observation of a coaching session followed by interviews. With evidence from the observed coaching session and questionnaires, students will be required to report what the problem may be, and with reference to performance psychology research, what interventions maybe applied to the situation to aid effective coaching. Students who cannot find a dyad to work with will be given a pre-determined set of data to work from.
Technical Requirements
This is an online course delivered via Blackboard Ultra. Students must have access to a stable internet connection, IT and up-to-date computer and software, a microphone and headphones or speakers.
Tutor
Dr Stuart Beattie
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His research interests include Mental Toughness, Resilience, and Performance Psychology in General.
Stuart worked as a sport psychologist for British Gymnastics for five years and has been involved with resilience projects for Outlook Expeditions and the Youth Justice Service.
Current PhD supervision projects include -examining Resilience, Mental Toughness, and Triadic Relationship projects with Manchester City Football club, as well as supervising PhD candidates within the NHS.
As part of the MSc Performance Psychology (distance learning), Stuart also provides supervisory support to students across the domains of Opera, RAF, Business, and Sport Coaching
Course Content
What will you study on this course?
Candidates will be taught the most up-to-date theories and applied interventions in coaching dyad literature. In this short course, within and between person discrepancies are key. For example, between person discrepancies will examine between person viewpoints. Within person discrepancies will examine the gap that is created when we set goals. Closing the goal discrepancy loop is important for our own development. However, if our goals and intentions are not shared or communicated effectively, then a lack of understanding between the dyad can occur leading to conflict.
Learning Units
- Lecture 1: Self discrepancy theory
- Lecture 2: Performance Profiling
- Lecture 3: Dyadic relationship in crisis
- Lecture 4: Assessing the coach athlete relationship
- Lecture 5: Co-orientation
- Lecture 6: Moderators influencing the dyadic relationship
- Lecture 7: Maintenance strategies
- Lecture 8: Transitions
- Lecture 9: Conflict and communication
- Lecture 10: Live catch up Q+A session
Assessment
The assessment will provide students with an experience of applied consultancy that will help the student identify the principles of effective coaching and communication.
Students are required to identify a dyad who are not working as effectively as they could. Initial observations and assessment will be conducted via a triangulation of methods i.e., observation of a coaching session followed by interviews. With evidence from the observed coaching session and questionnaires, students will be required to report what the problem may be, and with reference to performance psychology research, what interventions maybe applied to the situation to aid effective coaching. Students who cannot find a dyad to work with will be given a pre-determined set of data to work from.
On successful completion of this short course, students will be able to:
- demonstrate a critical understanding of 'within and between' person discrepancies
- demonstrate a critical understanding of the research on dyadic relationship
- interpret data and effectively deliver an intervention to address discrepancies between both parties who are not working well together
Course Cost
Entry Requirements
Candidates will typically require at least a 2.ii honours degree. We also encourage applications from those with non-graduate or alternative professional qualifications and from those who can demonstrate at least 3 years relevant work experience within a high-performance environment (e.g. as an athlete, coach, professional musician, business or finance executive or within a broad range of other professional roles).
Application
How to Apply
Please make sure you read and follow the step-by-step application guide as this will specify which sections of the application form are compulsory for the type of course you want to apply for and save you time.
Please prepare the following information (in a Word document):
- Current employment details;
- Years of experience, and employment history (where relevant)
- Name of staff member and organisation that have approved your funding for this module.
This will speed up the process of completing the application form.
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- Click on ‘Non-graduating applications / Stand alone Modules’, then select ‘Non-graduating Postgraduate’.
- In the next section, select 'Non-Graduating Taught Modules in Sport Health and Excercise Science (NGGT/SHES)' Click Save and Continue.
- On the next page, the default for the first question is Full Time. You need to change this to ‘Part time’:
- You now need to input the module code. The Coaching Dyad : the code is JXH-4214. This section must be completed for your application to be processed.
- You also need to state the start date. Please make your selection, then click ‘Save and Continue’.
- IMPORTANT: You do not need to write a personal statement to apply for this course. Instead, please upload the document including employment, experience and education information that you have created prior to starting the application that contains the name of your current employer, the number of years of experience you have, and your highest qualification to date. Click Save and continue.
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