Coaching Essentials Outline

Helping Leaders Emulate Great Coaches

Good leaders need to learn and understand the principles of good coaches.  While leaders of people may not necessarily be identified or used as formal coaches, the better a leader understands the principles, the better the leader can be at avoiding problems and taking advantage of opportunities.

This workshop is designed to give leaders the exposure they need to the core principles of coaching so that they can become more effective in dealing with their people.

Learning Outcomes

• Use coaching to accelerate individual and team progress toward an organization's objectives
• Create an environment of trust that accelerates the development of others so that they can more effectively contribute to the organization's goals
• Understand and use communication skills that develop self-reliance in others
• Understand and apply a four-step coaching process that results in clear agreements and initiates action
• Determine situations when coaching is appropriate for helping others reach a higher level of performance

Training:

Coaching Essentials for Leaders is offered on-site in a 1-day format. The following areas are threaded throughout each training session:

• Coaching skills
• Coaching processes
• Coaching skill practices

The Process:

Coaching Essentials for Leaders is for people who seek to learn and apply coaching skills with others in order to increase their effectiveness and influence within their organizations. This program is dedicated to increasing participants' ability to integrate coaching into their current leadership style.

Approach:

Coaching Essentials for Leaders does not attempt to make leaders into coaches. Rather, leaders are encouraged to examine their current behaviors and leadership styles while experiencing how the use of coaching can make them more effective.

Learner-Centered Delivery:

The leaders who will be participating in this training are already high functioning leaders who use coaching and other leadership skills daily. Our approach is to create a collaborative and interactive learning environment. Depending on how conversations flow during the session, materials may or may not be delivered in a linear fashion. Short segments of information stimulate conversations, and then the facilitators draw out the points from the participants, utilizing the participant workbook to support the learning. Thus, the learning experience is highly productive for busy people.