Coaching as a Leadership Style Programme

This programme is a highly efficient, yet transformational introduction, to high impact coaching communication skills that underpin the needs of today’s leaders.

This programme will deliver the skills, knowledge and tools to help you:

• Clearly define coaching in alignment with internationally recognised competencies and standards.
• Clarify the difference between coaching and mentoring.
• Develop and embed an impactful coaching style in day-to-day leadership interactions.
• Elevate relationships and drive performance.
• Increase engagement, buy-in and ownership.
• Build respectful, trusting relationships.
• Facilitate growth and development.
• Form a foundation for a culture of high performance, independence, and accountability.
• Improve levels of self-awareness and personal responsibility.
• Leverage more fully the potential of team members.
• Provide team members with an increased sense of value, willingness to be creative and proactive. 
• Improve business performance.
• Identify coachable moments in your context.
• Apply a coaching approach in the workplace from Day 1 due to the highly practical nature of the programme.
• Stay aligned to a coaching approach through our exclusive, simple and trademarked models.
• Examine how a coaching approach provides psychological safety and promotes increased trust and openness.
• Examine how coaching supports diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
• Cultivate a coaching leadership approach that effectively helps address organisational needs to mitigate psychosocial hazards.

This programme is ideal for anyone interested in creating or deepening a coaching culture in their organisation,  leaders keen to build their coaching capability, or if you are seeking confidence and credibility as an internal and/or external Coach.

Defining coaching

• Demystify the difference between coaching, mentoring and other modalities.
• Gain clarity of globally recognised definition of coaching.

Neuroscience and Coaching

• Examines how coaching leverages neuroscience to create positive, sustainable behavioural change.

Foundations of Coaching

• Introduction to the underpinning foundations of coaching:
• Self-Discovery
• Belief In Potential
• Positive Feedback
• Coachee Driven
• Accountability
• Challenge
• Solutions Focussed
• Trust and Rapport
• Curiosity
•  Examines the impact and benefit of coaching, including a highly self-reflective process, inclusive of habits and beliefs. Includes creation of a personal development plan.

 Coaching Communication Skills

• Introduction, examination, and practice of core coaching communication skills:

• SSSHHH™ Model Speak with Impact/ Hear Deeply
• Reflecting, Bottom-Lining, Intuiting Permission
• Powerful Questioning
• Impactful Feedback
• Acknowledgment

Live Coaching – Demonstration and Participant Practice

• Demonstrations by experienced ICF credentialled executive coach
• Participants coaching exercises enabling the participants to experience both the role as the coach and the impact for the coachee.

PACT Model™

• Simple model that ensures leaders are adhering to coaching methodology and principles.

“Coachable Moments”

• Assists participants to recognise the myriad of “Coachable Moments” in their day-to-day roles and implement coaching immediately into the workplace.

Coachable Moment Session Structure

• Provides a structure to ensure focussed and highly effective coaching conversations.

Setting and Reviewing Actions

• Highlights how to set and review actions through a coaching approach.

This programme is offered as an in-house programme only. It is delivered over an approximate 3 month period with the following format:

• Day 1: Intensive Face-to-Face Workshop 
• Day 2: Intensive Face-to-Face Workshop  
• Group Learning Call 1 (1.5 hours)
• Group Learning Call 2 (1.5 hours)
• Day 3: Intensive Face-to-Face Workshop