My Story Coaching Programme
The My Story Programme is an individual coaching programme. You will have your own success coach, who helps you with one-on-one coaching. He or she will support you with your study progress, personal development, and professional growth. The first 2,5 years of your study, the My Story Programme focuses mainly on your personal well-being and your study progress. Your success coach is your first person of contact and always available for you.
After you come back from your internship abroad, you will attend the My Future Day, and you will start the specialization phase. In this phase of the study, you get a new success coach. While the focus is still on study progress and your well-being, your professional/career progress becomes more important too
Monitoring your own progress
We believe that keeping track of your own progress is a powerful motivator. That is why the coaching sessions use a progression-focused approach. This means you monitor your own progress and focus on your personal and professional growth. This also includes writing progress summaries of each year together with your coach or another student. At the end of your studies, in year four, you use these summaries to write your ‘My Story’, about your development through year 1 – 4, and a short Personal Profile.
Before you graduate, you do the My Story assessment. This is based on your Personal Profile and My Story. This assessment is conducted orally by a success coach, who is not your regular coach, and an external assessor. The student who has the best performance will win the IHAB-award during the Funda graduation ceremony.
Coaching sessions
You will have 15 coach sessions (compulsory), 8 of them taking place in the first year. We value your well-being and want to make sure you feel at home and are able to handle your studies. During the sessions you are bringing in the topics you’d like to discuss, except for some sessions related to the educational programme. We encourage you to think about what matters to you and take that with you to the sessions. The sessions with your coach are all confidential. Only you get to decide what happens with information you share with your coach.
Student counsellor for personal matters
The hotel school in Maastricht has two student counsellors. They attend to both the general interests of all hotel management students, as well as your individual interests. Our student counsellors will be there for you when you have any questions about your student grants, study costs or your study progress. But there are also other matters you can discuss with the student counsellor. These might include matters such as illness, regarding a disability, personal matters, conflicts at school or complaints and appeal procedures. The student counsellor handles your case in the strictest confidence and holds an independent position at the hotel school.
Studying with a disability
Do you have a disability or suffer from a chronic illness or disorder that means that studying will take more time and energy? If so, there are multiple arrangements you may make use of to assist you during your study. By supporting you as much as we can, we aim to prevent study delays and dropouts.
Zuyd has developed a Roadmap, this functions as a practical guide for students with a physical impairment. With the Roadmap you can find out to whom you can reach out if you have certain questions. In here, you can also find out which arrangements and solutions are available for you to overcome the obstacles you might face during your hotel management study. For more information, read about studying with a disability on the website of Zuyd.