Coaching skills for managers

An online, one-day course covering when and how to use coaching effectively

Introducing coaching skill for managers

This interactive, practical course is for busy managers who want to understand how coaching can be used to enhance their team’s effectiveness. It consists of 3 interactive sessions with up to 10 managers.

The benefits of this course – it will:

  • Increase managers’ capabilities and confidence in using coaching skills
  • Explore how these skills can be applied virtually and across the matrix of groups they interact with as well as their own teams
  • Help them identify when a coaching approach is the best strategy and when it isn’t
  • Introduce different ways to apply situational coaching – both formally and informally
  • Provide them with resources and models that managers can draw upon immediately
  • Offer some ideas for coaching teams and working effectively in group settings

What the course covers

We know the pressures that managers experience daily. This course starts with managers where they are at in their roles. It offers realistic and practical ways of applying coaching both formally and informally. It covers when not to use coaching too.

The course provides pointers for managers as to how to use coaching well as they navigate their way through managing their team dynamics and the conflicting demands of their roles.

It also covers how coaching adds value to individuals and how it can be successfully applied to whole teams.

Situational coaching – with individuals

Managers will end the day with an understanding of key coaching skills, plus a new handle on the range of situations in which different styles of coaching can be applied.

The course covers a broad range of topics for working with individuals, such as using coaching skills to:

  • Address performance, with both positive and negative feedback in mind.
  • Build upon intrinsic motivation, strengths and identify development opportunities
  • Handle difficult and challenging conversations and relational issues
  • Increase engagement, shifting attitudes and behaviour
  • Focus upon outcomes, fostering initiative, personal accountability, and delivery

It also explores what team coaching means and when this style of working with the group is directly relevant and when it isn’t.

The course covers various team coaching approaches, including the power of accessing the team’s purpose and their collective creativity. It also includes how coaching can help managers identify what their team wants to be known for and how to use coaching to develop their team story.

An interactive, practical one-day, online course

3 ninety-minute group sessions

For up to 10 partcipants

Meet our directors

Jude Elliman

Jude helps her clients to think clearly, strategically and practically. She supports her clients as they face big challenges and pressing, significant issues. Jude’s coaching approach is highly relational, organisationally savvy and results-orientated.

Work with Jude

Nick Isbister

For 26 years, Nick has been a trusted advisor to many leaders and emerging leaders. He focuses on working with senior executives, helping them negotiate the pressures they face at the top of their organisations.

Work with Nick

“Listening Partnership’s training is always impactful. They know how to transfer their knowledge, share their expertise, and empower people to have the confidence to try new things. And they do all of this serious work with considerable humour.“

KATHY GREETHURST
HR CONSULTANT AND EXECUTIVE COACH

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“Listening Partnership’s training is always impactful. They know how to transfer their knowledge, share their expertise, and empower people to have the confidence to try new things. And they do all of this serious work with considerable humour.“

KATHY GREETHURST
HR CONSULTANT AND EXECUTIVE COACH

“I have learnt and grown so much as a person, both at professionally and personally through the training with the Listening Partnership. Their style is insightful, creative, challenging and practical. I can highly recommend this training to anyone.“

SOPHIE BROWN
DIRECTOR – GOLD AND AMBER

How great managers create positive feedback loops

Feedback matters in business, and great managers set up the conditions where feedback is welcomed. They lead through walking the talk, by building strong, resilient relationships, and by welcoming feedback about their own performance. Giving feedback well - both negative or positive, is a skill every manager needs in order to improve the situation, enhance the person's, team's or department's performance.

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Introducing coaching skill for managers

This interactive, practical course is for busy managers who want to understand how coaching can be used to enhance their team’s effectiveness. It consists of 3 interactive sessions with up to 10 managers.

The benefits of this course – it will:

  • Increase managers’ capabilities and confidence in using coaching skills
  • Explore how these skills can be applied virtually and across the matrix of groups they interact with as well as their own teams
  • Help them identify when a coaching approach is the best strategy and when it isn’t
  • Introduce different ways to apply situational coaching – both formally and informally
  • Provide them with resources and models that managers can draw upon immediately
  • Offer some ideas for coaching teams and working effectively in group settings

What the course covers

We know the pressures that managers experience daily. This course starts with managers where they are at in their roles. It offers realistic and practical ways of applying coaching both formally and informally. It covers when not to use coaching too.

The course provides pointers for managers as to how to use coaching well as they navigate their way through managing their team dynamics and the conflicting demands of their roles.

It also covers how coaching adds value to individuals and how it can be successfully applied to whole teams.

Situational coaching – with individuals

Managers will end the day with an understanding of key coaching skills, plus a new handle on the range of situations in which different styles of coaching can be applied.

The course covers a broad range of topics for working with individuals, such as using coaching skills to:

  • Address performance, with both positive and negative feedback in mind.
  • Build upon intrinsic motivation, strengths and identify development opportunities
  • Handle difficult and challenging conversations and relational issues
  • Increase engagement, shifting attitudes and behaviour
  • Focus upon outcomes, fostering initiative, personal accountability, and delivery

It also explores what team coaching means and when this style of working with the group is directly relevant and when it isn’t.

The course covers various team coaching approaches, including the power of accessing the team’s purpose and their collective creativity. It also includes how coaching can help managers identify what their team wants to be known for and how to use coaching to develop their team story.

An interactive, practical one-day, online course

3 ninety-minute group sessions

For up to 10 partcipants

Meet our directors

Jude Elliman

Jude helps her clients to think clearly, strategically and practically. She supports her clients as they face big challenges and pressing, significant issues. Jude’s coaching approach is highly relational, organisationally savvy and results-orientated.

Work with Jude

Nick Isbister

For 26 years, Nick has been a trusted advisor to many leaders and emerging leaders. He focuses on working with senior executives, helping them negotiate the pressures they face at the top of their organisations.

Work with Nick

“Listening Partnership’s training is always impactful. They know how to transfer their knowledge, share their expertise, and empower people to have the confidence to try new things. And they do all of this serious work with considerable humour.“

KATHY GREETHURST
HR CONSULTANT AND EXECUTIVE COACH

How great managers create positive feedback loops

Feedback matters in business, and great managers set up the conditions where feedback is welcomed. They lead through walking the talk, by building strong, resilient relationships, and by welcoming feedback about their own performance. Giving feedback well - both negative or positive, is a skill every manager needs in order to improve the situation, enhance the person's, team's or department's performance.

“Listening Partnership’s training is always impactful. They know how to transfer their knowledge, share their expertise, and empower people to have the confidence to try new things. And they do all of this serious work with considerable humour.“

KATHY GREETHURST
HR CONSULTANT AND EXECUTIVE COACH

“I have learnt and grown so much as a person, both at professionally and personally through the training with the Listening Partnership. Their style is insightful, creative, challenging and practical. I can highly recommend this training to anyone.“

SOPHIE BROWN
DIRECTOR – GOLD AND AMBER

Meet our directors

Jude Elliman

Jude helps her clients to think clearly, strategically and practically. She supports her clients as they face big challenges and pressing, significant issues. Jude’s coaching approach is highly relational, organisationally savvy and results-orientated.

Work with Jude

Nick Isbister

For 26 years, Nick has been a trusted advisor to many leaders and emerging leaders. He focuses on working with senior executives, helping them negotiate the pressures they face at the top of their organisations.

Work with Nick

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