Coaching Essentials For Leaders Overview: Helping Leaders Emulate Great Coaches
Coaching Essentials For Leaders Overview: Helping Leaders Emulate Great Coaches
Coaching Essentials For Leaders Overview: Helping Leaders Emulate Great Coaches
Coaching Essentials for Leaders is dedicated to improving leaders skills-particularly their ability to coach. The program addresses the single biggest problem managers and leaders face today: maintaining the balance between caring for their people and being tough when needed. Linda Miller, Corporate Alliance Executive for Coaching and Master Certied Coach (a credential from the International Coach Federation and an honor held by fewer than 300 individuals).
Objectives
Use coaching to accelerate individual and team progress toward an organizations objectives Create an environment of trust that accelerates the development of others so that they can more effectively contribute to the organizations 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
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 inuence within their organizations. This program is dedicated to increasing participants ability to integrate coaching into their current leadership style.
OUTCOMES: Leaders who participate in this program
will be able to utilize coaching skills to support others in taking focused and purposeful actions. This ability increases their organizations productivity, growth, business results, and industry impact.
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
Strengths
Rather than being a training event, Coaching Essentials for Leaders is a learning process that allows learning to take place over time. Coaching Essentials Provides a simple coaching conversation model Includes three coaching sessions for better application of material Establishes a consistent language that ts with all leadership styles Has immediate, real-world application Teaches communication skills that improve Partnering for Performance conversations Provides specic coaching skills that can be applied immediately Establishes an internal coaching structure that gives leaders and managers the tools that equip them to talk through and resolve challenges Helps individuals achieve balance between their needs and those of the organizations change objectives
participating in this training are already high functioning leaders who use coaching and other leadership skills daily. For that reason, our approach is to create a collaborative and interactive learning environment. Depending on how conversations ow 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.
Coaching Essentials for Leaders does not attempt to make leaders into coaches. Rather, leaders are encouraged to examine their current attitudes, behaviors, and leadership styles while learning coaching skills that make them more effective managers. Madeleine Homan, Vice President of Blanchard Coaching Services and Master Certied Coach (a credential from the International Coach Federation and an honor held by fewer than 300 individuals).
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Because the quality of the training is directly connected to the quality of the discussions among the participants and the facilitator, numerous interactions are built into the training design. Skill practices occur throughout the training with small groups of two or three people. We recommend that the participants bring current situations to the skill practices, thereby giving them an opportunity to do real work as they practice coaching and being coached.
CUSTOMIZED SCENARIOS FOR PRACTICE: If
Effective leaders understand that the key to driving business results is developing and empowering their people to achieve the strategic objectives of the organization. Coach-like leaders are simply more procient in inciting their people to stretch and meet their targets. Scott Blanchard
desired, Blanchard will work with an organization to develop specic scenarios that relate to common situations and that provide a focus for discussions, demonstrations, and/or skill practices.
DEMONSTRATIONS WITH PARTICIPANTS: As
concepts are discussed, the facilitator may demonstrate the skills or concepts for the benet of the group. Afterward, demonstrations are debriefed so that observations are shared and discussed.
COACHING SESSIONS: Research shows that
training followed by coaching increases the level of skill retention. Blanchard knows that training followed by coaching turns a training event into a learning process, thereby leveraging training costs. The focus is on applying the coaching concepts within the workplace and discussing areas of concern for the leader.
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Training Design
Coaching Essentials for Leaders includes two distinct segments: the training component to learn and practice the skills, and individual coaching sessions to support and apply the learning.
TRAININGCoaching Essentials for Leaders is
offered on-site in a 1 to 1 1/2 day format or in ve 90-minute virtual sessions using WebEx. The following areas are threaded throughout each training session: Coaching skills Coaching processes Coaching skill practices
training, each participant receives a minimum of three coaching sessions. All individual coaching sessions are approximately 45 minutes long and are held over the telephone. Participants are carefully paired with a professionally trained coach, and all coaching is condential. The primary benets of these coaching sessions include Increased content application and retention Improved communication between participants and their direct reports and teams Effective practice and evaluation of coaching skills
Delivery Options
Keynote Speeches On-site and Remote Delivery Seminars and Public Workshops Training for Trainers
Ordering and Information In the United States 760 489-5005 or 800 728-6000 In Canada 905 568-2678 or 800 665-5023 In the United Kingdom +44 (0) 20 8540 5404 All Other Countries 760 839-8070
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