Coaching Skills for Managers

Aim: To develop managers’ skills in coaching and developing others, encouraging links to organisational and individual performance.




Objectives:


By the end of the programme participants will be able to:




 Describe the links between development and organisational performance


 Define what is meant by the term “coaching”.


 Diagnose their own approach to developing others


 Practise and improve the core skills needed in the effective coaching of others


 Raise their awareness of the potential development needs of their own staff


 Implement a coaching process with individuals who have different needs.


 Plan the transfer of learning back into the workplace




Key Content




Self and others diagnostic: participants will complete diagnostic questionnaires to determine their current skill level when coaching others; this is also available as a 180 facility


Live issue: throughout the programme participants are invited to apply the material to a current situation, in preparation for transfer into the workplace


Not just training! Throughout the sessions participants are encouraged to explore how coaching and developing others links to performance, and is not about sending staff on training programmes


Use of Learning Sets: participants will work in small groups to explore and practise the key elements of the programme, including their own live issue




This programme can be tailored to incorporate an organisation’s own learning and development processes.