Professional Development

Coaching Skills for Leaders


Description
Too many leaders unknowingly create dependence by solving problems for their team instead of empowering their people to think, grow, and lead. The result? Bottlenecks, burnout, and underdeveloped talent.Coaching Skills for Leaders is designed for managers, people leaders, and those aspiring to leadership roles who want to break that cycle.

This robust online course teaches leaders to adopt the proven skills of professional coaches, without becoming a professional coach. Through engaging video presentations, interactive activities, real-world applications, and a real-life demonstration of coaching, leaders can begin leveraging the coaching approach immediately.

Course Outline:
What It Means To Be A Leader-Coach
Why Coach
When Coaching Works Best
The Coaching Mindset
The Flow of Coaching Conversations
3 Fundamental Coaching Skills
1:1 Coaching Demonstration

Target Audience: Managers, people leaders, and those aspiring to leadership roles

Objectives: As a result of completing this program, you will be able to:
- Explain multiple benefits of coaching
- Give examples of when coaching is an effective approach
- Share why coaching has positive impacts on growth, engagement, inclusion, and productivity
- Use a simple approach to engage in coaching conversations effectively
- Bring coaching to everyday conversations

Note: For those who would like a more individualized learning experience, we also offer a hybrid version, which includes instructor feedback, and two live practice coaching sessions with an International Coach Federation Professional Certified Coach. Contact info@coaching-companion.com for details.
Content
  • Introduction: From Expert-Leader to Leader-Coach
  • Program Guide available for download
  • What It Means To Be A Leader-Coach
  • Reflect on your experience with coaching
  • Why Coach
  • Why be a leader who coaches?
  • When Coaching Works Best
  • How coaching fits in
  • How coaching fits in, continued
  • How to Coach
  • Consider your mindset
  • Consider your mindset, continued
  • Reflect on elements of the coaching mindset
  • Follow the Flow of Coaching
  • Apply the coaching approach
  • Flow of Coaching Activity Debriefing
  • Activate Coaching Skills: Listening to Understand
  • Your approach to active listening
  • Check Your Understanding: Listening to Understand
  • Debriefing & Practice: Listening to Understand
  • Asking Great Questions
  • Check Your Understanding: Asking Great Questions
  • Generating great questions
  • Debriefing: Asking Great Questions
  • Practice: Asking Great Questions
  • The Impact of Asking Great Questions
  • Sharing Insights
  • Check Your Understanding: Sharing Insights
  • Generating insights
  • Activity Debrief: Sharing Insights sample
  • Practice: Sharing Insights
  • The Impact of Sharing Insights
  • Coaching Benchmarks
  • Coaching Demonstration
  • A Closer Look: The Coaching Mindset
  • Coaching Mindset Debriefing
  • A Closer Look: Clarify
  • A Closer Look: Explore
  • A Closer Look: Commit
  • A Closer Look: Commit, continued
  • A Closer Look: Listening to Understand
  • A Closer Look: Asking Great Questions
  • A Closer Look: Sharing Insights
  • A Closer Look - Final Reflections
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Who Will You Coach Next?
  • Program Closing
  • Program Evaluation & Feedback
  • FREE! Resource Center Access
  • Our Offer to You
Completion rules
  • All units must be completed