Developing Your Coaching Skills

Overview
This one day workshop will help you become a better coach by practising the skills, techniques and models coaches use.
Objectives

• Understand how coaching can be used to develop people
• Develop the coaching skills that help improve individual performance
• Demonstrate the behaviors and practices of an effective coach
• Recognise strengths and give feedback needed to succeed
• Identify performance problems and ways you can help to correct them

By the end of this workshop you will have learned

How the role of the coach and coaching can be used to develop and improve performance and help create a coaching culture within your organisation. The key skills coaches use to get real results.
Who should attend
This workshop is aimed at line managers, team leaders or specialists with a responsibility for coaching others on a frequent basis, and for L&D/HR professionals who often coach people within their organisation or are trying to build a culture of coaching at work.
Pre-requisites

No prior experience is necessary. Pre-work includes completing a Learning Styles questionnaire
Course synopsis

• Defining Coaching
• 'Contracting' process to agree objectives
• Addressing poor performance through coaching
• Developing strengths and talents
• Key Coaching skills
• Using adult learning principles
• Coaching models including GROW and Learning Styles
• Using the range of intervention strategies, including challenge and support
• Giving critical feedback
• Creating learning plans to achieve success
• Managing Coaching issues
• Developing a culture of coaching