Leader as a Coach

Coaching is a non-directive way of leadership that fits especially in partnership oriented company cultures. Dynamic coaching strategies help leaders build commitment and foster growth in their people. The best workplace coaches are those who understand and develop their own coaching style, who know how to "flex" their style to coach others, and who can use the coaching process and concepts effectively through understanding and skill development. This training helps both emerging and current leaders learn new ways of motivating and inspiring teams, as well as providing one-on-one coaching within their organizations.

OBJECTIVES

The Leader as a Coach training will enable participants to:

• Increase awareness of coaching and its benefits
• Become acquainted with coaching concepts and tools
• Identify own coaching style and skill level
• Learn to identify others’ preferences for being coached
• Practice coaching using the best coaching tools
• Improve continuously coaching competency through feedback and on-going coaching
• Use the concepts of solution focused coaching
• Develop a solution focused coaching toolbox that can be applied in various management situations.

TOPICS

The following topics are some of the key learning points of Leader as a Coach training:

• Mentoring vs. Coaching
• Advantages, disadvantages and limits of internal coaching
• Coaching as a leadership style in the context of situative leadership
• Internal vs. External coach
• Coaching attitude, coaching skills
• Problem focus vs. Solution focus (Solution focused coaching)
• Tools, structure and questioning techniques for workplace coaching
• Create a solution vision
• Goal setting
• Identify and activate resources
• Action steps towards the solution

During the course participants will practice coaching sequences using own real life topics. Trainer input will be complemented with role plays and exercises, and participants will be challenged to draw their own conclusions.

TARGET GROUP

Managers, who want to learn the concept of solution focused coaching in order to lead their team for results more effectively.

TIME FRAME

1-2 days

For more details regarding The Leader as a Coach Training please contact us and we will provide you an answer based on your needs as soon as possible.

This training is also available in the following languages:

• In German
• In Hungarian
• In Romanian
• In Croatian
• In Greek
• In Slovenian