An Introduction to Coaching

An Introduction to Coaching is an ideal choice if you’re a line manager wishing to develop your coaching style and challenge individuals within your organisation to reach their full potential.

By the end of An Introduction to Coaching course you will be able to:

• identify coaching values
• evaluate different coaching models and how they are used
• develop your own coaching style
• apply coach-mentoring techniques for performance and development issues
• give feedback as a coach
• develop action plans for coaching in the workplace

Pre course work

Delegates will be asked to complete the Preferred Learning Styles Questionnaire by Honey and Mumford and bring it along to the course.

Coaching – an overview

• definitions of leaders in the field
• coaching for skills
• performance improvement and potential
• philosophical underpinning

Values exercise

• identify your collective values around coaching

Core processes 

• peer coaching sessions
• practice a range of models

Learning styles

• Peter Honey’s learning styles
• learning style preferences questionnaire
• implications for the coach
• managing different learning style preferences

Communication style preferences

• application of communication styles in the coaching context

Coaching tools

• appreciative enquiry
• coaching techniques for performance and development issues

Core processes

• peer coaching sessions

Giving and receiving feedback effectively as a coach

• skills and techniques
• skills practice