Coaching Skills for Leaders

Learn a range of coaching styles and develop your own communication practices to ensure you get the result you need from your staff member and team. A particularly relevant session for those new to team leadership, or those subject experts without a background in communication or management.

Content 

• What coaching is and isn’t 
• The whys of coaching 
• How people respond to instruction, feedback and criticism 
• Generational approaches to coaching
• Reviewing your own coaching style 
• Core skills and different strategies to try in your workplace 
• Having the right conversations, as well as difficult conversations 
• Different ways to deliver feedback 
• Using your team’s time effectively – meetings, email and online 

Outcomes 

By the end of this course you will have: 

• An understanding of the different coaching and management styles that could be applied. 
• An understanding of a range of approaches that could suit your own team and situation. 
• Reviewed your current coaching style in a strategic environment. 
• Advice on how to approach team communication. 
• An appreciation of the tools available to have good conversations, and to deal with difficult conversations. 

Who Should Attend 

• Team leaders in a middle to lower level of management. 
• Managers and leaders who are new to a team leadership role. 
• Subject experts finding themselves now running teams, particularly those experts without a background in communication or leadership. 

Benefits to You and Your Organisation 

Your department’s communication among teams will not just improve, it will evolve. Teams can enjoy improvements to their performance and development, and your leaders will have a toolkit to continue their development as they progress through to higher levels of management.