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Talent Development

Foundational Career Coaching Skills (TalentDev02)


Description

What you’ll learn

  • Understand the strategic role of career coaching in workforce development

  • Establish effective coaching relationships grounded in trust and rapport

  • Apply core coaching techniques: attending, listening, reflecting, and questioning

  • Use goal-setting and action planning to drive accountability and performance

  • Identify employee motivational drivers and align coaching to individual values

  • Adapt coaching approaches across career stages and transitions

  • Apply coaching skills in performance reviews and development conversations


Outcomes

Professional Development Course

Develop the essential skills needed to conduct meaningful, growth-focused career conversations within your organization. This course equips supervisors, HR professionals, mentors, and organizational leaders with practical coaching tools that strengthen employee engagement, internal mobility, and leadership readiness.

You’ll leave with a structured coaching framework you can immediately apply in one-on-one conversations, development planning, and performance discussions.


Applied Learning

Throughout the course, you will practice coaching skills through guided scenarios and reflection exercises focused on:

  • Conducting initial career conversations

  • Building trust and psychological safety

  • Crafting open-ended, insight-driven questions

  • Translating insight into measurable action plans

  • Coaching employees at different career stages

These applied exercises build confidence and ensure you can integrate coaching techniques into real workplace conversations.

Content
  • Welcome & Objectives
  • Pre-Course Self-Assessment
  • Career Coaching Skills
  • Put Your Skills Into Practice
  • Career Coaching Quiz
  • Post-Course Self-Assessment
  • Course Reflection
  • Course Evaluation
  • Additional Resources
  • Sample Career Development Plan
  • Sample Intake Interview Form
  • Career Coaching Textbook Resources
Completion rules
  • You must complete the units "Pre-Course Self-Assessment, Post-Course Self-Assessment, Course Evaluation, Course Reflection"