Course description
Leader as Coach
In an ever-changing working world, power has shifted from the employer to the employee and leaders will need to move away from a command-and-control approach.
Our Leader as Coach programme is designed to provide your leaders with the core skills and tools to adopt a coaching approach in the workplace.
Our expert trainers will provide your leaders with the context, knowledge and actions needed to help you build this leadership style across your organisation.
We combine organisational support, preparation, and impact tracking, with training for your leaders to develop the skills they need to coach effectively within the workplace.
Our Leader as Coach programme is a proven solution to facilitate the creation of a coaching culture and develop a coaching style of leadership within the organisation.
The solution includes skills development for your leaders, provides opportunities for structured practice in and between workshops, access to self-development online resources via our Learning Hub and ongoing support to participants after the training to ensure the skills are embedded and sustained.
This programme can be ILM Endorsed or provides a perfect platform for those wanting to gain an ILM Coaching Qualification.
Upcoming start dates
Outcome / Qualification etc.
Organisation Benefits
Knowledge, Ethics and Understanding
The line managers you develop are fully equipped with the skills, knowledge, and ethical understanding they need to effectively coach members of their team.
Improved Performance
Your line managers can provide effective support for the development of others and improve their performance.
Embedded Culture
We help to embed a coaching culture within your organisation and create a coaching mindset and an environment of empowerment and high performance at work.
Individual Benefits
Coaching Understanding
Participants gain a critical understanding of the role, responsibilities, behaviours, skills and values required of a line manager to coach effectively.
Increased Empowerment
Participants have more effective and productive conversations with colleagues and team members which increase levels of empowerment.
Greater Ownership
Participants can have workplace conversations that allow for individual ownership, responsibility, and personal discretionary effort.
Training Course Content
Workshop 1 (one day or 3 x 2-hour modules)
This workshop includes:
- What is coaching - ensuring all are clear on what coaching is within the workplace and the expectations of the programme.
- The key components and skills of coaching within an organisation.
- Managing/leading/coaching – the intent, behaviours and applications of each.
Workshop 2 (one day or 3 x 2-hour modules)
This workshop includes:
- Listening skills – the four levels of listening, and how to develop them.
- The GIVE Model – developing your empathy skills.
- Listening inclusively and unconscious biases.
Workshop 3 (one day or 3 x 2-hour modules)
This workshop includes:
- When should you put your knowledge in?
- What is feedback in coaching, and how to give it.
- The Johari window.
Course delivery details
This programme can be delivered either face-to-face, 3 days in total (usually 2+1) or virtually via 9 x 2-hour modules over an 8-week period.
The ideal group size is up to 12 participants.
Each participant is onboarded by our team, provided with a printed workbook, professionally supported throughout the programme and given access to resources on our forthcoming Learning Hub - check back for more details coming soon!
Once you have completed Leader as Coach, you have the option to gain an ILM accredited Level 3 Award. To achieve this, participants will need to complete an additional day of training and compile a portfolio of evidence throughout the programme, consisting of:
- Records of a minimum of 16 hours of workplace coaching or mentoring
- 3 written assignments, focused on their understanding of coaching and application and review of their practice
- 1 book review from our recommended reads
- Evidence of their own learning and development, including tutorial notes, supervision notes and reflections
The journey from the start of the programme through to completing the qualification usually takes 6-9 months.
Why choose Coaching Focus Group
5-star rated by our course participants
"I highly recommend the course to anyone committed to developing their coaching skills at an executive level"
Over 200 HR and L&D Managers trained since 2019
Expenses
Fees: £1,125 + VAT
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Case Studies
OVO Energy
OVO was launched in 2009 as a market disruptor, and in 10 years grew to 1,900 employees and over 1 million customers. In 2020, SSE Energy Services joined the OVO family, and the business became the UK’s third-largest energy supply company with 6,000 employees and 5 million customers.
As part of their commitment to drive human progress through clean affordable energy for everyone, OVO is investing in coaching for its 750 people leaders. Their aim is to create an inclusive, progressive culture which will empower their people to thrive and ultimately benefit their customers across the country.
To aid this, OVO partnered with Coaching Focus in 2021 to develop a skills development and mindset-shifting programme for all 750 people leaders, named “The OVO Way of Coaching”.
OVO and Coaching Focus worked in collaboration to create a bespoke programme, that aligns with their people’s needs, ways of working and language, whilst helping achieve the wider goal of creating the inclusive and progressive culture mentioned.
Currently, around a third of the people leaders have undertaken the programme, with short-term benefits already being realised.