Saturday, March 17, 2012

Distance Learning Coaching Courses: The Best Courses In Coaching, Now At Home

By Philip M. Keller


With great emphasis put on the spread and the availability of knowledge to all and sundry worldwide by the national, international, multinational and global organizations and humanitarian groups, a lot of facilitation methods and techniques have also emerged in the current global scenario. One of these methods is the development of courses in coaching for distance learning. Concerning the history of distance learning, it dates back to the year 1728 when there was an advertisement about this type of education in the Boston Gazette. This advertisement was named "Caleb Phillips, Teacher of the new method of Shorthand" and it required the students to send the prepared lessons on weekly basis.

The contemporary distance education courses in coaching primarily depended on the establishment of postal services within the 19th century and such a practice is in vogue because the decade of 1940s when Isaac Pitman began teaching shorthand inside the United Kingdom via correspondence. The first university degree was provided by the University of London inside the year 1858 when its external system was established which is presently termed because the University of London International System and consists of Diploma, Undergraduate also as postgraduate degrees. The examples consist of Goldsmiths, Royal Holloway and London School of Economics.

Further significant development in the field of distance learning with the inception of a lot of courses in coaching was witnessed in 20th century. With the advent, development and the global spread of the internet facilities and its inevitable utilities, there has been a revolutionary and adventurous progress in distance learning education. Several websites are there all over the internet playing their part in the collective goal of global educational promotion. Many universities connected with this practice have earned worldwide renown by offering quality education and imparting standard theoretical as well as practical proficiency into not only national but also overseas and international students. Among these one of the most prominent and competitive being the Institute in counseling.

In recent years, online audio as well as video learning has been getting momentum and at the same time has achieved much acknowledgement and appreciation. This is a great landmark achievement in the field of distance learning and modern approaches to various courses in coaching. Among undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, the diploma is equally popular as well as appealing among the people belonging to various walks of life. The diploma in coaching and mentoring is a course of distance and online study which equips the students with the skills and detailed knowledge of mentoring and coaching.

The diploma courses in coaching are specifically designed to be applied in organizational settings and are based on developmental psychology. Other major focuses of coaching include team structuring, management coaching, executive coaching, life skills coaching, career development and professional as well as personal development. Mentoring is another field of special interest with a multitude of attractive and utilitarian goals like positive professional as well as personal development, and career development and outcomes. Moreover, in depth insights, techniques and various skills of mentoring are also kept in focus. So, if you are determined to furnish yourself with various developmental skills of role identification, internal identity and authority, and a greater sense of accomplishment which subsequently lends you a great degree of personal satisfaction and competency, you can opt for such distance courses of studies.




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