Essential Coaching Skills for Leaders
Introduction
Coaching Leader Program
This 3-Day equivalent program is a practical introduction to the core skills of coaching, essential for all leaders at all levels.
The Need
In an era of constant change, leaders often oversee teams with specialised knowledge beyond their own. An essential skill for leaders is therefore the ability to bring out the best in others. This requires adopting a coaching-style approach to leadership, fostering growth, collaboration and adaptability.
This Program
Essential Coaching Skills for Leaders is a practical and experiential program that tackles the up-skilling and integration of essential skills of coaching - presence, deep listening, powerful questions and a process that suits your organisation.
Details
Purpose of This Program
We believe that for everyone to be led well, all leaders inspire others through differentiated conversations that empower, support, challenge, stimulate and encourage others to bring out the best in themselves and realise their true potential.
Who This Course Is For
- All line managers and people managers
- People who need to lead through other people
- Knowledge experts wanting to reach a new level of leadership
What Will be Learned
Attendees will learn:
- How, why and when (and when not) to use a coaching style as a leader
- How to shift from providing the answers to bringing out the answers in others
- The skills of reflective listening and having presence
- The GROW model (other models can be used if preferred) as a guiding process for coaching conversations
- Practise, giving and receiving constructive feedback
- Practise coaching real people with real challenges
Program Structure
The structure is flexible to your needs – either on-line or in-person. The vanilla program includes:
- Module 1 – 2-days to learn and practise core coaching skills
- Coaching Circles – Three facilitated 1hr sessions to support application of skills into real world situations
- Module 2 – 1/2 day follow up to fine-tune and embed for organisational impact
Benefits of Coaching Skills for Leaders
Leaders develop a coaching style:
- Empower their people more
- Are more likely to sort out problems earlier on
- Inspire trust in others
- Generate new ideas and new solutions
- Let go of work and actions that hold themselves back
- Have more time to think and act more strategically
Where It can Take You Next
The Coaching Skills for Leaders program is complementary with the Introduction to Team Coaching program which takes a leader’s coaching from the individual to the team level.