KINS 257 Coaching Techniques and Business Basics (3 credits)
Course Description
A course is designed to familiarize the health and fitness professional with theories of behavior change, factors contributing to exercise adherence, and understanding the elements necessary for effective coaching. Students will also examine potential career starting points, learn business basics including how to maintain professional and industry standards, legal liability issues and risk management.
Course Content
A. Career preparation and industry trends
B. Anatomy, Kinesiology, Physiology Overview
C. Barriers for change and goal setting
D. Health and wellness leadership and lifestyle coaching
E. Communication skills and relationship building
F. Business/career goals, and personal marketing documents
G. Business plan
H. Business licensure, certification, and professional liability insurance
I. Operating procedures, polices, informed consent/waiver and release forms
J. Scope of practice, sexual harassment, client confidentiality, emergency procedures and proper qualifications.
Student Outcomes
1. Discuss the academic and professional preparation for a career in the field, to include professional career options and future trends.
2. Describe barriers and strategies for implementing behavior change with specific customization for populations, while demonstrating cultural sensitivity.
3. Apply leadership and lifestyle coaching skills through role-playing and modeling behaviors.
4. Design a business plan for starting a business, or a plan for gaining employment with an established company.
5. Discuss professional liability insurance, licensures, certifications and other professional competencies, to include scope of practice, sexual harassment, and client confidentiality.
6. Discuss operating procedures including an emergency plan.
Degree Outcomes
Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions. Program Outcome: Identify and utilize behavioral strategies to enhance exercise and health behavior change.
Lecture Contact Hours 30
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 30
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