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business coach

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Business coaches guide employees of a company or other institution in order to improve their personal effectiveness, increase their job satisfaction, and positively impact their career development in the business setting. They do this by leading the coachee (the person who is being coached) to resolution of their challenges by their own means. Business coaches aim to address specific tasks or reach specific goals, as opposed to overall development.

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Competences
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Groups
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Essential
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Optional
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Essential skills and competences 11 competences

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provide feedback to performers

Highlight positive points of a performance, as well as areas requiring improvement. Encourage discussion and propose avenues of exploration. Ensure performers are committed to following up on feedback.

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advise on efficiency improvements

Analyse information and details of processes and products in order to advise on possible efficiency improvements that could be implemented and would signify a better use of resources.

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apply teaching strategies

Employ various approaches, learning styles, and channels to instruct students, such as communicating content in terms they can understand, organising talking points for clarity, and repeating arguments when necessary. Use a wide range of teaching devices and methodologies appropriate to the class content, the learners' level, goals, and priorities.

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This includes the use of teaching devices such as diagrams and other visual aids.
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coach employees

Maintain and improve employees' performance by coaching individuals or groups how to optimise specific methods, skills or abilities, using adapted coaching styles and methods. Tutor newly recruited employees and assist them in the learning of new business systems.

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conduct public presentations

Speak in public and interact with those present. Prepare notices, plans, charts, and other information to support the presentation.

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develop a coaching style

Develop a style for coaching individuals or groups that ensures all participants are at ease, and are able to acquire the necessary skills and competences provided in the coaching in a positive and productive manner.

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evaluate clients' progress

Keep track of clients' achievements by reporting on their progress. Monitor whether goals are reached and barriers or setbacks overcome. If not, consult with clients about their issues and offer new approaches.

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evaluate employees

Analyse employees' individual performances over a certain time span and communicate your conclusions to the employee in question or higher management. Evaluate achievements of staff members.

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give constructive feedback

Provide founded feedback through both criticism and praise in a respectful, clear, and consistent manner. Highlight achievements as well as mistakes and set up methods of formative assessment to evaluate work.

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organise projects to fill education needs

Fill education gaps by organising projects and activities that help people to grow academically, socially or emotionally.

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work in an organised manner

Stay focused on the project at hand, at any time. Organise, manage time, plan, schedule and meet deadlines.

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Optional knowledge 6 competences

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organisational learning

The process for continuous improvement of an organisation through obtaining experience to be used to generate knowledge with the aim of sharing it within the organisation itself.

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business knowledge

A firm's functions, the processes and tasks which are employed to accomplish those functions and the relationship of those functions, processes and tasks to each of the functions, processes and tasks performed throughout the firm.

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communication

The exchange and conveying of information, ideas, concepts, thoughts, and feelings through the use of a shared system of words, signs, and semiotic rules via a medium.

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leadership principles

Set of traits and values which guide the actions of a leader with her/his employees and the company and provide direction throughout her/his career. These principles are also an important tool for self-evaluation to identify strengths and weaknesses, and seek self-improvement.

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learning difficulties

The learning disorders some students face in an academic context, especially Specific Learning Difficulties such as dyslexia, dyscalculia, and concentration deficit disorders.

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teamwork principles

The cooperation between people characterised by a unified commitment to achieving a given goal, participating equally, maintaining open communication, facilitating effective usage of ideas etc.

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Optional skills and competences 6 competences

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analyse goal progress

Analyse the steps which have been taken in order to reach the organisation's goals in order to assess the progress which has been made, the feasibility of the goals, and to ensure the goals can be met according to deadlines.

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identify clients' needs

Identify the areas in which the client may require aid and investigate the possibilities for meeting those needs.

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motivate employees

Communicate with employees in order to ensure that their personal ambitions are in line with the business goals, and that they work to meet them.

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teach digital literacy

Instruct students in the theory and practice of (basic) digital and computer competency, such as typing efficiently, working with basic online technologies, and checking email. This also includes coaching students in the proper use of computer hardware equipment and software programmes.

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teach intercultural communication methods

Advise individuals or businesses on their intercultural communication. Explain methods and ways to facilitate communication between people of other cultures.

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teach public speaking principles

Instruct clients or students in the theory and practice of speaking in front of an audience in a captivating manner. Provide coaching in public speaking subjects, such as diction, breathing techniques, analysis of the space, and speech research and preparation.

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