The Leader as Coach program is designed to enhance coaching skills through a dynamic learning approach, where participants learn by being actively coached. Guided by an experienced facilitator, participants will engage in practical learning experiences, acquiring ready-to-use tools and templates that enhance their coaching capabilities.

Coaches play a pivotal role in empowering others. They foster self-awareness, promote integrated thinking, and sharpen observational skills. Leaders equipped with coaching skills excel in motivating their teams, forging stronger connections, building trust, and nurturing an innovative environment. This program emphasises the development of key coaching skills such as active listening, reflection, empathy, and powerful questioning to enhance trust and communication within teams.

This hands-on Masterclass is designed to empower participants to become adept coaches themselves or to elevate their colleagues and leaders. 

At the conclusion of this workshop participants will be able to:

• Identify informal and formal coaching opportunities
• Define the benefits of a coaching approach
• Structure a coaching session using the GROW model
• Develop a safe, supportive, and challenging environment through mutual respect and trust
• Apply active listening techniques to foster open communication, clarity, and partnership
• Empower and develop team members through powerful questioning
• Apply goals and reviews that energise and motivate team members
• Develop accountability for improvements and solutions
• Challenge undesirable thinking patterns and attitudes using reframing techniques
• Deliver feedback in a way which prompts learning.

Day One

What is Coaching?

• Where can you use coaching?
• International coaching federation core competencies
• Foundations
• The coaching mindset
• What is the difference between coaching, mentoring, counselling and managing?
• The right time to coach

The Coaching Relationship

• Establish and maintain the coaching agreement
• The first session – a needs analysis
• Establishing trust and rapport
• Learning styles
• Values elicitation
• Wheels
• Coaching presence
• Self-awareness
• Self- development
• Interests
• Coaching Lab 1

Recap of Day

Day Two

Communicating Effectively

• Active listening
• Barriers to listening
• Paraphrasing and summarising
• Empathising
• Chunking up and drilling down
• Evoke awareness
• Questions
• Direct communication
• Coaching lab 2

Cultivating Learning and Growth

• Client growth
• The GROW model
• Coaching conversations with GROW questions
• Coaching lab 3
• More powerful questions
• Designing the way forward
• Goal setting
• Progress and accountability

Reflection and Action Planning

Costs and group limits may vary.

Minimum group size: 10

Maximum group size: 16

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