Making the transition to a coaching style of leader can be challenging but it will have a significant impact on team performance and organisational culture.

Coaching skills have a much broader application than just coaching a team member. This workshop challenges leaders to consider a coaching style in many of their interactions.

What will I learn?

• Understand how coaching builds greater accountability, ownership and creativity.

• Developing a coaching mind-set. 

• Explore the concept of performance/ potential and ‘interference’.

• Demonstrate core coaching skills, with a focus on effective listening, questioning, and creating accountability.

• How to apply coaching in a variety of settings: feedback, performance planning and review, team meetings, stakeholder engagement and others.

• Coaching as a culture change initiative.

• Practice with real topics participants prepare in advance.

A common organisational challenge is leaders not changing their mindset when they step up to the next level. It is hard to let go of that which made us successful in our previous role and to change our habits and behaviours.

This workshop encourages leaders to adopt the different skills and thinking required at the next level:

• Moving through levels of leadership. What changes?

• Who is my ‘first team’? A step up and culture challenge for leaders.

• Connecting leadership, values, culture and performance.

• Changes in thinking when we move from transactional to transformational leadership.

• Leading in a Matrix Organisation. What changes now that traditional ‘hierarchical’ decision making is no longer the norm?

Performance Conversations are not just about managing poor performance. Great leaders have regular, informal feedback to build a high-performance culture.

This workshop provides the core skills for having effective, regular performance conversations, including tackling those challenging interactions.

• Communication essentials

• Providing effective feedback

• Motivating through engaging performance conversations

• Handling challenging conversations

• Coaching skills

• Apply the skills to build performance in your team.

There is an untapped resource lying in organisations: our peers, and their ability challenge our thinking and support us to create better ideas.  With an effective structure and some skill practice, our peers become great coaches.

Apply Leadership skills to real situations.

Practice the essential coaching skills of better listening and asking great questions.

• Tackle real leadership or business challenges.

• Practice application of Leadership models and concepts.

• Focus on breaking down and working across silos through building relationships and networks by understanding the challenges that other leaders and departments face.

• Harness the collective intelligence and perspectives.

• Support a cultural change in how leaders interact, coach, brainstorm and support each other in their everyday interactions at work.

Participants overwhelmingly say it is one of the most useful experiences in their leadership development. 

Supporting people to build their own resilience and strategies to cope and succeed through change is an important part of leading change in organisations.

This workshop encourages participants to understand their reactions to change and adopt strategies to be most effective and maintain their wellbeing.

• Understanding our unique experiences of change.

• Why change can be difficult.

• The human brain and responses to change.

• Managing myself through change (strategies)

• The 5 “P”s of resilience 

• Understand the emotional cycle of change and my own experience.

• Build change resilience.

• Be most effective during change.

• Recognise the signs of other’s reactions to change.

• Support others going through change. 

Leading change can be challenging, and it is central to a leader’s role. From small to large changes, it doesn’t need to be complicated.

Effectively communicating, understanding the emotional response to change, and having strategies to support others are the essential tools for leaders. 

• The ‘reality’ of change – expectations vs what happens.

• Communicating ‘Why’ – the most important, yet most often neglected element.

• Emotional responses to change – What about me?

• How can I lead when I’m struggling too?

• How to support others through change.

• Understanding social dynamics – it’s happening anyway, so how can I harness this?

• Building my change leadership plan

• More effectively lead your team and those you influence through change 

Meetings, presentations, and stakeholder workshops are valuable leadership moments.

Effective leaders get more out of presentations and meetings by using techniques to engage and motivate their teams and stakeholders.

• How to create an environment to get people to contribute and engage more in meetings and workshops

• Using questions more effectively to engage

• Top tips for more engaging presentations

• Using activities and  group processes for more involvement

• Present with an engaging style.

• Lead more effective meetings resulting in increased engagement.

• Facilitate group discussions and problem solving.

• Make the most of these valuable leadership moments