Coaching skills for managers
What you'll learn
- Understand what coaching is
- Be able to identify when it is appropriate to use coaching and when it isn’t
- Understand the benefits and the costs of taking a coaching approach
- Be able to identify good coaching opportunities
- Know how to move to coaching conversations
- Understand how to conduct a coaching conversation
- Understand what might get in the way of someone engaging with a coaching conversation
- Know useful coaching questions
- Understand how to conclude a coaching conversation
Requirements
- No prerequisites required.
Description
Welcome to this course on coaching skills development. By studying this course, you will learn how to assess when coaching is the appropriate development approach, how to engage someone in a coaching conversation, how to conduct a coaching conversation and how to effectively conclude a conversation. In addition, you will learn when coaching is not an appropriate approach, and when people might not to in a position to benefit from a coaching approach. The course includes video clips of coaching conversations that illustrate the points being made.
This course is for you if you are required to assist in the professional development of other people at work. This could be as a manager, or as a business owner who is required to develop the leadership skills of your team members, as an internal coach, or if you are interested in or beginning a professional career in coaching. Equally it will be useful to those in a mentoring role, and to the learning and development professional. This course is aimed at those who want to improve their skills in helping others develop.
At the end of the course, students will be able:
- Understand what coaching is
- Be able to identify when it is appropriate to use coaching and when it isn’t
- Understand the benefits and the costs of taking a coaching approach
- Be able to identify good coaching opportunities
- Know how to move to coaching conversations
- Understand how to conduct a coaching conversation
- Understand what might get in the way of someone engaging with a coaching conversation
- Use useful coaching questions
- Understand how to conclude a coaching conversation
Who this course is for:
- The target student is someone who is required to assist in the professional development of other people at work. This could be a manager who is required to develop the staff in his or her team, internal coaches, or those beginning a professional career in coaching. Equally, it will be useful to those in a mentoring role, and to the learning and development professional. This course is aimed at those who want to increase their skill in helping others develop.
Instructors
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At Skill Boosters we work with leading subject matter experts to design, develop and deliver effective video based training for the workplace. We are passionate about delivering impactful training which helps to build productive, tolerant and inclusive individuals, teams and workplaces and which improves lives and life chances.
Our courses combine video drama, expert analysis, documentary sequences and interactive study to provide flexible, cost-effective training that engages, informs and inspires our learners.
Skill Boosters courses and resources are trusted by many of the world's leading organisations to develop and improve the skills and behaviours of their people.
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Initially a social worker, Sarah built her expertise in helping people change their ways of thinking and behaviour by working in child protection. Since then she has worked for nearly 30 years with organizations from production and service sectors as well as with higher education, not-for-profit and local and central government across Europe and further afield. A chartered organisational psychologist, Sarah is an experienced facilitator with special expertise in creating individually designed large or whole system interventions based on Positive Psychology, Appreciative Inquiry, Open Space and other key collaborative transformation methodologies. She works in the areas of team development, whole system change and organisational development. She helps organizations to address their issues, meet their challenges and achieve their desires in areas of organisational life such as performance, change, strategy, relationships, morale, engagement and motivation, working together, process improvement, leadership, co-ordination, and effectiveness. She is often asked to help when things are ‘stuck’ or dysfunctional at a team, organisational or individual level, yet is equally able to help make good better.
She is the author ‘Positive Psychology at Work’, Positive Psychology in Business', 'Co-creating planning teams for dialogic Organisational Development and ‘Positive Psychology and Change’. She is also lead author of ‘Appreciative Inquiry for Change Management’. She is a recognised expert in these areas and speaks regularly at National and International Conferences. She currently teaches at a post graduate level in the UK in Cambridge on a Masters in Applied Positive Psychology.