Coaching for Change: Outcome and Transition (PLC513)

This course marks a pivotal transition in the coaching journey, where reflective insight and transformational dialogue are translated into clear direction, meaningful motivation, and intentional movement. Building on the conversational competence and psychological safety established in PLC512, this course deepens learners’ capacity to support clients in moving from awareness toward purposeful action. The course focuses on how coaches facilitate the formation of Desired Outcomes that are personally meaningful, self-authored, and grounded in the client’s lived context. Learners explore how clarity, motivation, and commitment emerge through skilful inquiry rather than prescription, and how outcomes are shaped in ways that respect agency, readiness, and developmental timing. Attention is also given to working with transitional states, ambivalence, and adaptive change across life contexts. By integrating structured yet flexible approaches to outcome formation, learners are equipped to support movement that is coherent, sustainable, and internally owned, while maintaining a whole-life perspective on change.

• Desired Outcomes as Developmental Direction
• Distinguishing Outcome Clarity from Goal Setting
• Self-Authorship and Whole-Life Alignment
• Structured Enquiry in Outcome Formation
• The SCORE Model: Mapping Present to Desired Direction
• Outcomes as Developmental Hypotheses
• Motivation, Commitment, and Readiness Language
• Working Constructively with Ambivalence
• Psychological Transitions and Inner Change
• Identity Shifts and Outcome Formation
• Adaptive Planning and Learning-Oriented Action
• Whole-Life Integration and Sustainable Change

• Critically analyse the nature of Desired Outcomes in coaching, evaluating how self-authorship, intrinsic motivation, developmental timing, and whole-life context distinguish outcome formation from task-based goal setting
• Evaluate structured outcome-mapping approaches, including the SCORE model and transition frameworks, to explain how clarity, motivation, readiness, and identity shifts are supported within non-directive coaching practice.
• Analyse psychological transitions and adaptive change processes, integrating insights from motivation theory and transition theory to explain how commitment and sustainable movement emerge over time
• Facilitate and refine the formation of client-generated Desired Outcomes that are future-oriented, internally owned, and aligned with Purpose, Identity, and whole-life considerations.
• Apply and adapt structured enquiry frameworks (e.g., SCORE) to support client clarity, motivation, and readiness, while maintaining a coaching-centred, non-prescriptive stance.
• Design and support adaptive, learning-oriented action pathways that respond to ambivalence, transitions, and feedback, while critically reflecting on pacing, readiness, and the coach’s influence on outcome formation.