The Coaching-Manager 3-4-5 Day Courses – example topics

Just some of the topics are presented here. Ask us for more detail if you wish.

  • Coaching definitions
  • Coaching vs mentoring etc
  • Coaching in a management context
  • Helping roles in management
  • The supportive coach
  • Establishing core coaching skills
  • Conscious-competence model
  • Mindsets for the coach and coachee
  • Understanding how others learn and develop
  • The use of different styles of coaching
  • Questioning and Listening skills
  • Useful and not useful questions
  • Exquisite listening
  • Listening habits
  • Coaching/managing needs – the McLeod Management Model
  • The use of Emotional Intelligence in coaching
  • Non-judgement and constructive feedback
  • Celebrating success
  • How to structure your coaching session
  • Widening coaching
  • Root cause and principal target
  • Building and breaking rapport
  • Deeper level questioning skills to challenge perceptions and beliefs
  • Power of silence
  • Dealing with resistance
  • Managing emotional expression
  • Managing internal conflict
  • Getting what you really want with Well Formed Outcomes
  • Identifying motivation – identifying ‘Towards’ and ‘Away From’ behaviour
  • Using metaphors
  • Perceptual positions
  • Anchoring and psychological state management
  • Provocative vs challenging coaching
  • Graceful flexibility – seamless coaching
  • Facilitating behaviours and context-free coaching
  • Recognising dysfunctional patterns and pattern breaking
  • Hot Words & Phrases
  • Sensory Journeys