KINS 257 Coaching Techniques and Business Basics (3 credits)
Course Description
Introduction to coaching models, business basics, industry standards, professionalism, liability, risk management and coaching strategies.
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, facility management, polices, informed consent/waiver and release forms
J. Scope of practice, sexual harassment, client confidentiality, emergency procedures and proper qualifications.
K. Collaboration and Teamwork
L. Conflict Managment and Problem Solving
M. Effective Communication
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 using effective communication.
4. Create 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, client confidentiality, conflict management, problem solving and collaborative teamwork.
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.
Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to craft and exchange ideas and information in a variety of situations, in response to audience, context, purpose, and motivation.
Program Outcome #5: Identify and conduct oneself as a member of the health and fitnes profession by knowing and using ethical guidelines and other professional standards related to health and fitness practiced as detailed by the ACSM. (Alignment with National Certifying Body and Quality Assurance)
Program Outcome #6: 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
Potential Methods
A. Reading assignments using the required textbook, scientific journals, instructor generated materials and other resources such as videos.
B. Objective Examination
C. Specialized activities (independent and collaborative)
D. Assignments (variety of methods for example: Business Plan and Case Studies)
E. Presentations (variety of methods for example: Role-playing)
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