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The Art of Coaching: Enabling Employees to Achieve Their Potential

Course: 224   Type: Workshop   Duration: 2 Days
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You Will Learn How To

  • Apply coaching techniques to unlock employee potential and maximise performance
  • Harness the art of coaching to forge collaborative relationships
  • Structure a framework for mutually effective learning and development
  • Develop the coaching skills, attitudes and behaviours to foster success at all levels
  • Recognise and adapt to individual and situational differences
  • Create a positive, supportive environment that generates commitment and enthusiasm

Course Benefits
Effective coaching techniques benefit an organisation by improving the return on training investment and enhancing employee motivation and productivity. This course provides the coaching skills you need to develop the potential of your employees, peers and others. Through practical workshops and role-playing exercises, you enhance your leadership style with proven coaching techniques that provide a pathway to excellence for the entire organisation.

Who Should Attend
This course is valuable for new and experienced coaches, or anyone who is in a position to coach others. A genuine desire to help others achieve their potential is assumed.

Course Workshops
Through intensive in-class role-play, real-play, self-assessment and group workshops, participants apply the skills and techniques of effective coaching. Workshops, performed under the guidance of an expert coach/facilitator, include:
  • Establishing your coaching baseline
  • Analysing your coaching mindset
  • Developing coaching questions
  • Applying practical coaching techniques to real and simulated situations
  • Utilising "coaching cards" to elicit individual needs and values
  • Profiling your personal coaching styles
  • Adapting your coaching style to individuals and situations
  • Developing a personal blueprint for coaching excellence

Course Content
The Powerful Art of Coaching
The spirit and practice of coaching
  • Creating a symbiotic relationship between organisational and individual performance
  • Building a performance-enhancing culture
  • Forging a partnership of trust and respect
Benefits of coaching
  • The positive effect on the bottom line
  • Reinforcing and maximising training outcomes
  • Reaping the emotional rewards of achievement
Coaching: The critical cornerstone of leadership
  • Benchmarking coaching attitudes and skills
  • Experiencing "magnificence"
Structuring the Learning and Coaching Cycle
Setting the foundation
  • Clarifying expectations through well-formed outcomes
  • Examining alternative pathways to achievement
  • Drafting the coaching contract
Supporting the learning process
  • Creating a learning environment
  • Demonstrating the art of high-quality listening
  • Asking questions and sharing perceptions
  • Applying proactive and reactive coaching techniques
Reviewing the results
  • Establishing shared insight through quality feedback
  • Encouraging self-evaluation
  • Fostering self-awareness and self-responsibility
  • Closing the loop and reviewing success
Honing Your Coaching Skill Set
Creating a supportive environment
  • Building trust and mutual respect
  • Providing "psychological safety"
  • Demonstrating emotional intelligence
Leveraging coaching language techniques
  • Utilising the questioning technique
  • The use of silence
  • Reinforcement
  • Redirecting
  • Reframing
Adapting Your Coaching Style to Individuals and Situations
Developing insight into self and others
  • Assessing individual needs
  • Eliciting values and motivators
Adopting appropriate coaching styles
  • Profiling your personal behaviour patterns
  • Managing the coaching dynamic
  • Selecting effective interventions
Overcoming internal and external barriers to coaching
  • Challenging limiting beliefs
  • Recognising and addressing reluctance
  • Rejecting misconceptions
Team coaching
  • Creating a common vision of excellence
  • Ensuring interactivity for maximum benefit
Coaching for Commitment
The passion of the coach
  • Instilling passion and commitment in others
  • Unleashing the power of positive dialogue
  • Optimising individuality and uniqueness
  • Co-achieving through mutual support and learning
  • Promoting transformational coaching
Meeting the moral commitment of modern leadership
  • Creating the climate for performance excellence
  • Providing leadership to instill self-belief

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Coaching Employees to Their Potential
9 - 10 Jul, 2008
London
8 - 9 Oct, 2008
Edinburgh
5 - 6 Nov, 2008
London
4 - 5 Feb, 2009
Edinburgh
4 - 5 Mar, 2009
London

 

£ 1,095 - Standard Tuition
Savings Plans
£ 540 - 10-Day Training Pass
£ 995 - Flex-Training Passport
£ 800 - Short Course Vouchers
£ 985 - Alumni Gold Tuition

 
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