Manager as coach

Course summary

Coaching can be an invaluable tool for managers who want to improve their team's performance by tapping into the motivation and commitment of their team members. Today many organisations recognise the importance of developing coaching skills as a core part of an effective manager's toolkit. This course is designed to help managers adopt coaching as a management style that can unlock employee potential and maximise performance.



Course outline

This is a hands-on course that introduces the theoretical concepts of coaching and gives you the opportunity to immediately start applying coaching skills through practical exercises. Plenty of time is devoted to developing your skills, reflecting on your experience and discussing how you might apply coaching in your own role. During the day you will cover:

• what is coaching?
• coaching as a management style
• skills of effective coaching
• effective goal setting
• focussing on outcomes
• focussing on people
• having coaching conversations
• the art of asking questions
• the art of listening
• overcoming barriers to coaching

Who is this course for?

This course is for managers, team leaders and supervisors who want to bring the best out of their people. If you want to be an inspirational manager who improves performance and relationships in the workplace by focussing on both outcomes and people then this course is for you. No prior coaching knowledge is required, just enthusiasm and curiosity to know more about the subject.


What will this course help me do: learning outcomes?

This course will provide you with the tools to understand and apply coaching skills that will encourage top performance in the workplace. By the end of the day you will have an understanding of the basic concepts of coaching, but most importantly you will acquire practical coaching skills and adopt models you can immediately start using to successfully face daily managerial challenges.