Coaching skills for managers

• Do you need to free up more time to concentrate on the important issues?

• Do you want to become even more effective rather than simply successful in managing others?

• Are your managers fully engaging their colleagues - helping them become productive, satisfied, and committed to organizational success?

You cannot lead unless others will follow, and for others to follow it is essential to demonstrate qualities of trust and rapport, as well as value-add through thought, insight and inspiration. Becoming a trusted and thoughtful leader, is a journey of awareness that grows your emotional intelligence to extraordinary levels. It also enables you to adapt your style accordingly in order to create the most effective foundation for development in others.

Xenergie's Coaching Skills for Managers programme addresses the skills required to become a trusting and thoughtful manager / leader and to create the environment where others - your coachees - can make powerful changes in their careers and lives.

The coaching relationship is one where the entire focus is on the coachee and offers an extraordinary level of support and encouragement - a co-navigator who will help the coachee find their way and stay on course to make the changes they desire.

Imagine someone listening, not just to your words, but also to what's behind them and even to the spaces between the words, the nuances in the voice. Someone who listens to the very best in you even when you can't see it yourself. Someone who will hold you accountable and move you forward to your goals. This is the power of coaching.

In this two-day course, you will learn the essential skills of coaching for managers, that you can use with those who you are responsible for encouraging and leading.

Our approach embraces the notion that a coach and coachee can together create a lasting contract that focuses on the coachee's real development needs rather than on what a coach "thinks" is needed. The design of the program is such that participants are able to practice these skills in a low-risk learning environment that applies real-world situations so the new skills are immediately applicable to work responsibilities. By the end of the course, you will know:

• The difference between coaching and mentoring/managing
• How to interpret the mental maps of those you coach
• How to create a safe environment for coaching
• How to prepare yourself and the coachee to be coached
• How to adapt your coaching style for different types of people
• Your preferred style of coaching
• How to design a coaching programme
• The Four Steps of the coaching process

how to establish the real developmental need of the coachee - beyond the surface issues
how to set the coaching contract
how to evaluate the process
how to motivate to action

• How to give tough feedback in an empowering way
• How to navigate your biggest coaching challenge

Who will benefit from this course?

Managers and supervisors aspiring to develop their subordinates
Executives looking to instill a coaching culture in their organization
Business owners who need to prepare employees for roles of increasing responsibility
Leaders at every level who want to learn advanced communication and organizational leadership skills
Any professional that coaches or needs to coach other people

What will you gain from this course?

Change from a task-oriented controller to people oriented coach
Enhance knowledge transfer as senior people leave
Improved organizational communication and team effectiveness
Higher employee retention rate
Coaching structure and skills to immediately enhance performance
Discover coaching as a powerful model of management, mentoring and leadership
Be aware of your own behavioural style and how this affects others