OCLLL Organization Coaching

The Master in Organizational Coaching: Leadership and Lifelong Learning promotes the development of specific professional coaching competences. Attendees will master organizational coaching methods and practices, and will be exposed to actual coaching experiences to increase their knowledge and skills.
Special focus is on research-action methods, feedback giving, assessment and evaluation, and the relationships with customers/coachees. The course is provided online in synchronous and/or asynchronous mode.
The Master includes synchronous coaching practice and a final project. The final evaluation to obtain the open badge consists in:
• Creation of an e-portfolio (individual project)
• Oral presentation in pairs of the final project before the committee (three professors).
At the end of the course, the final project will be graded as passing, decent, good, excellent.

The Master includes synchronous exercises on coaching practices and the completion of a project. The course ends with a final exam.

The Master in Organizational Coaching: Leadership and Lifelong Learning opens up several career opportunities, especially in the professional coaching field, a growing sector focusing on how to help individuals and organizations reach challenging objectives and fulfil their potential.
The program develops several professional coaching profiles: the executive coach, who works with leaders and corporate managers to improve decision-making processes and performances. The career coach, who helps customers identify the opportunities and strategies for professional growth. The leadership coach, who works with leaders to develop and improve their effectiveness. The team coach, who improves group dynamics, collaboration and productivity within an organization. And the business coach, who works with entrepreneurs to develop and expand their companies, by providing strategic indications, troubleshooting and goal achievement tips.
In organizations, coaching competences are essential to manage HR, and in particular: to promote learning and growth; to develop talent and potential; to tackle challenges and overcome critical issues; to support and facilitate change and innovative progress.

The Professional Master’s program in Organizational Coaching: Leadership and Lifelong Learning includes the following teachings and the implementation of the related modules:

Module: Foundations of Coaching
Teaching units:

• Theoretical approaches and models of coaching
• Professional implications and ethics in coaching

Contents: Theory, research, and practice of coaching in organizations; related ethical implications.

Module: Adult Education
Teaching unit:

• Lifelong learning and continuing education

Contents: Theories and models of lifelong learning and applications in organizational contexts.

Module: Leadership in Organizations
Teaching units:

• Coaching for leadership development
• Coaching for transformative leadership

Contents: Leadership theories and models and their applications in personal and professional life.

Module: Career Development
Teaching units:

• The role of coaching in facing career issues
• Reflective practices for personal career development

Contents: Traditional and contemporary adult career development; technology, career assessments, and organizational issues.

Module: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Teaching units:

• Differences among groups
• Promoting diversity values in organizational contexts

Contents: Diversity and inclusion in organizations; strategies to foster more inclusive and equitable environments; coaching with diverse groups (e.g., age, class, race, gender, and other identities and positionalities).

Module: Personnel Psychology and Diversity
Teaching units:

• Introduction to personnel psychology
• Cross-cultural issues in recruitment, selection, and performance management

Contents: Theoretical foundations and key practices in human resources management; diversity and performance management.

Module: Coaching Methods and Practices
Teaching units:

• Developing and using a coaching toolbox
• Methods and practices of organizational coaching

Contents: Methods and practices of organizational coaching; management of the coaching process, use of assessments, feedback, and selection of interventions.

Module: Cultivating Communities of Practice in Organizations
Teaching units:

• Processes and strategies for developing communities of practice
• Configuring tools for developing communities of practice

Contents: Communities of practice and the social construction of knowledge within organizational systems; models and strategies for building effective communities inspired by coaching principles.

Module: Team and Group Coaching
Teaching units:

• Activities to develop coaching practices for teams
• The use of technology for team and group coaching
• Facilitating team and group coaching
• Coaching practices for teams and groups

Contents: Coaching strategies for leading and developing teams and groups in organizations and communities.

Module: Designing, Planning, and Assessing Organizational Coaching Interventions
Teaching units:

• Planning coaching interventions for organizations
• Monitoring and assessing the success of coaching in organizational settings
• The IACP model

Contents: Theory and practice of designing and planning coaching pathways.

Module: Developing a Coaching Consultancy
Teaching units:

• Methods and strategies for coaching consultancy
• Practices for consultancy
• Establishing a coaching consultancy
• Developing strategic capabilities for organizational coaching

Contents: Preparation for launching and managing a consulting business.

The Master is addressed to:

• Graduates
• Executives
• Professionals
• Corporate leaders
• Entrepreneurs
• Educators
• Community operators
• School directors
• University syllabus coordinators
• Teachers
• University professors
• Third-sector institutions executives

Administrators with executive roles in public and private institutions.

The general ranking of merit for the academic year 2026/27 will be published on the Italian page of this Master according to the timing provided in the Call.