Coaching – a Path to Conscious Leadership

Do you want to create a culture where coaching plays an integral role in business and personal excellence? What if coaching was the critical behaviour for maximising performance and achievement? What if this could be easy and transformational? Join us for an insightful journey of organisational and business transformation through coaching. A contextualised approach facilitates the creation of a pathway to integrate individual coaching skills, organisational strategies and business systems.

Opening the path to conscious leadership!

1. The Fundamentals of Coaching

Would you like to feel more confident in your interactions with others? Are their times when you question whether you have any coaching skills at all? Would you like to bring out the best in the people you work with? Are you aware that coaching could enhance performance, yet are unclear as to where to begin? What if coaching could be easy?

· Benefits of coaching
· The coaching continuum
· Clarifying objectives
· Attributes of effective coaches and mentors
· Stages of relationship building
· Rapport building
· Establishing effective communication
· Developing effective listening skills
· The power of focused attention
· Using questions effectively
· Giving and receiving feedback
· Stages of the coaching experience
· Coaching for workplace tasks
· Dealing with difficulties
· Reflecting on our experience
· Support for coaches

Duration – 2 Days

2. Coaching – Enhancing Management Effectiveness

Are their times when your coaching abilities are pushed to the limit? Would you like to foster individual workplace learning? Is it time you were the coach rather than outsourcing this key management strategy to others?

· Coaching vs Managing
· Multiple roles of coaching
· Identifying coaching opportunities
· Coaching and the evolving team
· Reframing current performance
· Establishing a partnership agreement
· Creating a context for change
· Identifying opportunities for enhanced performance outcomes
· Structuring coaching sessions
· Skill refinement – enhancing coaching fundamentals
· The purposeful use of questions
· Challenging for greater outcomes
· Encouraging self reflection and critical practices
· Exploring the hidden language of conflict
· Enhancing feedback strategies
· Measuring the effectiveness of coaching

Duration– 3 Days Coaching

3. The Key to Talent Management

Would you like to bring out the best in the people you work with? Do people around you have talents and abilities they don’t even recognise? Would you like to feel confident that you have the skills of maximising human potential?

· Coaching – the qualitative strategy in talent management
· Developing an integrated approach to talent management
· Becoming your own coach
· Stages of personal transformation
· The role of the saboteur within
· Personal limitations to effective coaching
· Maximising opportunities for active learning
· Coaching as a facilitative learning mechanism
· Developing elegant questioning techniques
· Finding the facts and minding the feelings
· Questioning as the key to developing new potential
· Feedback as a tool for management development
· Aligning human capabilities with motivational intention
· Enhancing organisational decision-making capabilities
· Uncovering the hidden barriers in succession management
· Measuring the effectiveness of coaching
· Evaluating business performance outcomes of coaching

Duration – 3 Days

4. Coaching - Mastery for Executive Managers

What does it take to create a coaching culture in the workplace? Is it time you were the coach rather than outsourcing this key management strategy to others? Are you keen to explore how this could enhance business and individual performance?

· Challenging personal and organisational myths
· Organisational implications of adopting a transformational leadership style
· Exploring coaching as mode of learning and development
· Operational coaching vs strategic management
· Illuminating blind-spots – risk management in action
· Limiting factors inhibiting effective coaching
· Speaking the unspeakable and voicing the unspoken
· Questions to enhance and inform individual and organisational transformation
· The hidden strengths of vulnerability
· Unforeseen challenges in the coaching journey
· Creating a cultural context for constructive feedback
· Feedback as a tool of cultural transformation
· The value of hindsight in the creation of the future
· Reality check – the politics of coaching relationships

Duration – 2 Days

5. Coaching as a strategy for business excellence

Are you looking to implement coaching as an organisational wide integrated strategy? Are you seeking clarity on how to implement a systems-wide coaching methodology? Do you know coaching is an effective management tool but struggle to communicate this to your organisation?

· Coaching as a leadership development framework
· Shifting the paradigm – from telling to coaching
· Aligning the leadership message with organisational direction
· Developing a culture where coaching is the norm
· Coaching as the linchpin of the learning organisation
· Systems and foundations for effective organisational coaching
· Coaching as a tool for fostering unique contributions
· The leader as coach and the coach as leader
· Understanding the hidden language of resistance
· Developing generative strategies which diminish the impact of myths
· Utilising the value of divergent perspectives to build effective systems
· Implementing and resourcing the coaching strategy
· Coaching the coach and strengthening individual capacity
· Qualitative and quantitative measure of effectiveness

Duration – 2 Days

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