
Welcome to this course! In this brief video, you'll learn what you're going to be able to do (sooner rather than later) as a result of taking this course. Get ready to gain some new coaching skills that you can use right away!
Meet coach Deborah Grayson Riegel and explore practical coaching tips, tools, and techniques to bring coaching skills to every conversation with direct reports, colleagues, clients, or family members.
In this lesson, you will learn:
1. What we need to be successful in our jobs
2. When to take a coaching approach
3. When to help using different approaches
In this lesson, you will learn:
1. What a mindset is
2. How to apply a growth mindset to coaching
3. How to apply a resourceful mindset to coaching
In this lesson, you will learn:
1. How to use formal and informal coaching
2. What a “coachable moment” looks like
3. How to use the GROW Coaching model
In this lesson, you will learn:
1. Why listening is such a critical coaching skill
2. What makes listening difficult (or challenging)
3. Three levels of listening
Discover how powerful questions unlock team resourcefulness, promote reflection and commitment, and shape coaching conversations so team members generate their own answers through open questions starting with what or how.
In this lesson, you will learn:
1. Why empathy is a critical coaching skill
2. The three types of empathy
In this lesson, you will learn:
1. The difference between praise and summoning strengths
2. When to summon strengths to help motivate and encourage
In this lesson, you will learn:
1. How goal-setting drives performance
2. How to coach your team member using SMART Goals
3. When to help using different approaches
In this lesson, you will learn:
1. How action planning leads to goal attainment
2. The impact of both visible and invisible actions
In this lesson, you will learn:
1. How anticipating obstacles drives action
2. How to coach for both external and internal obstacles
In this lesson, you will learn:
1. Why commitment and accountability matter
2. The five parts of the commitment and accountability coaching conversation
Thank you for participating in this course!
I hope you feel more prepared to:
1. Know why and when to use a coaching approach
2. Apply the four skills for effective coaching conversations
3. Help your team members set goals and take action
And there’s more learning to come! For additional resources, please reach out to me by visiting my website at www.DeborahGraysonRiegel.com.
Here's to being a lifelong learner!
Great managers don’t just direct work — they help people grow.
Coaching is one of the most powerful tools a leader can use to strengthen performance, build confidence, encourage employee development, and help people take greater ownership of their work. Yet many managers have never been taught how to coach effectively.
This course teaches practical coaching skills for managers, leaders, and professionals. You’ll learn when coaching is the right approach — and when someone actually needs clear direction, feedback, training, or another kind of support.
You’ll discover how to ask thoughtful coaching questions, listen before jumping to solutions, and use the GROW coaching model to help people clarify goals, examine their current situation, explore options, and commit to action. Instead of always providing the answer, you’ll learn how to help employees strengthen their own problem-solving skills and professional judgment.
You’ll also learn how to coach without micromanaging. Strong coaching does not create dependence on the manager; it builds capability in the employee.
Throughout the course, you’ll learn how to:
• Recognize when to coach and when not to
• Use the GROW coaching model
• Ask questions that encourage reflection and insight
• Listen more intentionally before offering solutions
• Help employees identify their own options and next steps
• Encourage ownership and accountability
• Balance guidance with autonomy
• Coach employees through challenges
• Explore underlying causes of performance issues
• Support high performers who want to grow
• Have more meaningful development conversations
• Help employees build confidence and judgment
• Establish follow-up without micromanaging
You’ll also learn to avoid common coaching mistakes, such as giving advice too quickly, asking leading questions, rescuing employees from discomfort, assuming a struggling employee lacks motivation, or coaching when clearer direction is actually needed.
Whether you are a new manager, experienced leader, team lead, or professional responsible for developing others, this course will give you repeatable coaching tools you can use in everyday workplace conversations.
By the end of the course, you’ll be better equipped to help people think, solve problems, take ownership, and grow.
Great managers don’t just solve today’s problems. They help people build the skills, confidence, and judgment to solve tomorrow’s problems themselves.