Manager as Coach

Coaching others well is an essential skill for a successful manager. Coaching includes motivating team players, transferring knowledge, inspiring cooperation, and shaping behavior. Coaches need to be able to inspire and empower others to develop goals and achieve their personal and organizational objectives. For most managers and team leaders, effective coaching is a learned skill...expertise in a particular area is not enough. In this dynamic, two-day workshop, participants will learn to:
  • Understand the importance of coaching
  • Identify opportunities for coaching in the organization
  • Uncover potential barriers to coaching and how to overcome them
  • Practice the major steps in the coaching process

Who Will Benefit?
Managers and project leaders at all levels who are committed to empowering their workforce, including those who are moving to, or involved in, a team-based structure.

Course Outline:

  • Coaching: its definition and implications for organizations
  • Differences between self, spot, and process coaching
  • Evaluating your coaching style
  • Tactics and strategies for motivating others
  • Influencing skills that encourage others
  • Using questioning techniques to promote independent thinking
  • Fostering formal and informal leadership
  • How to "coach" one's peers
  • Establishing an acceptance of the coaching process
  • How to recognize and improve skill deficiencies in others
  • Counseling employees about personal issues that affect job performance

 

 

 

       
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