Manager as Coach Training

Today training courses in executive coaching are attracting managers from all backgrounds. They are discovering that coaching techniques are a powerful method to improve their team's performance.

This workshop gives you the basic foundations so that you can build some powerful approaches into your management style. Through a series of exercises we give you the chance to practise the techniques.

The Syllabus

What is coaching?

Looking at the difference between traditional teaching methods and coaching. What are the advantages of the coaching approach?Breaking the “command and control” culture – why the worst way to improve performance may be the traditional telling and lecturing teaching style.

Questioning Techniques

Using open and closed questionsHearing what people say and building empathy through reflective listeningPractising the use of silence to draw people out.

Timothy Gallwey’s Inner Game Approach

How we sabotage our own performance. Gallwey’s ideas of “self one” versus “self two” and performance equalling potential less interference.How to get the coachee to be more self-aware of their behaviour and actions and how this is a powerful way to improve performance. Getting people to focus on the critical areas that lead to improvement. How to reduce the coachee’s mental blocks, fear and lack of confidence that stand in the way of high-performance.Motivating coachees - giving people the choice and desire to improve performance and getting people to take responsibility for their learning.Getting the coachee to trust their in-built learning mechanisms to improve their performance

Using the G.R.O.W. model to facilitate a coaching session

Setting measurable goals that motivate your coachees and aligning these goals with their valuesQuestioning a coachee to find out their current situation, what their strengths are and establishing scales to find out current behavioural performanceWorking with the coachee to investigate best options forwardPutting together action plans and follow ups

Understanding your own coaching style

What beliefs and attributes do you need to be a successful coach?What is your coaching style?Dealing with conflicts between the coach and coachee.Improving your coaching - an action plan for success.