Coaching Skills for Managers

Gain a first experience of a coaching approach to leadership. Through a shared activity, explore when questions, listening or clear instructions help and when your team needs support. Leave with a practical approach to try with your team.

Experience guidance methods from a participant's perspective.
Identify when and why the guide chose a particular approach.
Choose what to use when leading your own team.

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Who it is for: Business teams
Scope: 4 hours
Participants: By agreement
Price: On request

Experience the approach. Make a conscious choice for your team.

Understanding the guide's work

Using specific moments from the workshop, you will identify what the guide did and what it enabled you to do. You will distinguish the effects of a clear brief, a question, room to think and involving the group.

Applying it in your own practice

You will choose a situation in your team and an approach to try. You will clarify what requires different conditions and how to tell whether your chosen way of leading helps.

Experience guidance. Understand how it works.

First, you take part in a shared activity. Then you examine how the guide led you and which approaches you can use when leading people.

An activity that lets you experience guidance

Four hours combining personal experience with an analysis of how it was guided.

Understand your own role

You will explore your experience of leading people, strengths and interests. You will compare your own perspective with feedback from others.
Find applications at work

Through conversations and small group work, you will connect your capabilities with others' needs and choose a change you can influence.
Examine the guidance and choose a step

You will identify the guide's approaches and what to keep, let go of or add in your own practice.

Tools and skills

What you will learn

First, you experience the approaches as a participant. Then you identify their purpose and choose how to use them when leading your team.

Four connected areas of personal purpose and contribution.

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You will connect interests and abilities with others' needs and opportunities to earn a living.

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Guiding a conversation

You will distinguish when a question, listening or sharing your own experience helps.

Moving from individual work to pairs and group sharing.

Involving everyone and learning from each other

Using Think–Pair–Share and Mastermind, you will compare individual work, pairs and groups.

A cycle of experience, reflection and the next step.

Guided reflection

You will connect the activity you experienced with an insight and a concrete step for your practice.

The four-hour workshop offers a first experience and ideas for your practice. You will continue developing their use as you work with people.

Four hours for your role.

For leaders and people who guide others at work. The workshop lasts four hours; we will relate its focus and participant involvement to situations in your business. We will agree the date and price before confirmation.

Questions before booking

Is this a theoretical leadership course?

You first experience the approaches as participants, then examine their purpose. Four hours give you an initial experience to develop further in practice.