High performance doesn’t just happen by putting employees together and expecting them to excel. In fact, coaching and developing team members to achieve excellence is a key role of senior leadership. Typically, business management programs leave this crucial component out of their curricula. Coaching Skills for Leaders fills this gap.

What It Is

This highly-interactive workshop blends learning with action to develop practical skills you can immediately implement with your team. Through demonstrations, discussions, and activities woven throughout the workshop, you will form a deeper understanding of how coaching is an essential skill for building team accountability and motivation.

What It Does

The Coaching Skills for Leaders workshop has three objectives:

  1. UNDERSTANDING — how coaching increases motivation and accountability in employees
  2. SELF-AWARENESS — discover your natural strengths and identify which specific coaching skills would enhance your effectiveness as a leader
  3. PRACTICE — use a range of skills to make progress on real workplace issues during the workshop.

What it involves

This two-day* workshop has three major components:

  1. KNOWLEDGE
    • Coaching vs. other managerial functions
    • Structuring a coaching conversation
    • Overcoming the pitfalls of coaching
    • Assessing employee coachability
  2. SELF-DISCOVERY
    • Discover which coaching skills you use naturally already
    • Identify which additional coaching skills would be beneficial for you to develop
    • Learn how different employee circumstances require different coaching styles
  3. SKILL DEVELOPMENT
    • Collaborate without losing control
    • Design powerful questions
    • Understand the three levels of listening
    • Facilitate accountability and commitment in others

Summary

Effective management is more than just good fiscal decision-making; it’s also great team coaching and relationship development. When a team works hard together, respecting and honouring each members’ strengths and playing to those strengths, the whole team thrives. When the personnel thrive and innovation is celebrated, the whole organization benefits. This is the benefit of great coaching at the senior leadership level.

* Other format options available upon request.