Professional Development Training

If you’re serious about maximising your people’s potential, then you need to know how to coach them. Coaching, as a management approach, focuses on personal development, to improve an individual’s performance and help them become more confident, competent and capable team members.

Managers who are skilled at coaching create an environment where their people can flourish, stretch their abilities, take the initiative more often and fulfil their potential.

An effective manager-as-coach asks questions rather than jumping in to provide answers. This doesn’t mean not imparting knowledge to your team – in fact, coaching helps create a learning culture in your organisation if it’s done well - it’s about achieving the balance between sharing information and encouraging others to discover it for themselves.

It's not easy.

If you’re more used to a ‘tell ‘em’ management approach, then coaching can be difficult; it’s hard to rein yourself in when it feels like it’s quicker to just give instructions. But if you really want to reap the benefits of coaching, you need to strike the fine balance between being directive and non-directive. This one day workshop will help you do exactly that.

·      Leadership that gets results – where does the coaching style fit in?

·      What coaching actually is…and what it’s not…

·      The Six Principles of Coaching

·      Trust and where this fits into the process

·      The GROW model and how to use it effectively

·      Understanding goals, objectives and clarifying end points

·      Coaching questions to explore and expand conversations

·      Putting it into practice