Coaching Skills for Leaders - Flying First Class

Leaders-who-coach give you a winning advantage because they maximise the potential of their teams. They use coaching skills in their leadership to ensure work is de-bottlenecked, people are engaged and performance conversations are effective. This ground-breaking training draws on the Coaching On the Go approach to collaborative leadership. We use their unique GIZMO to provide participants with a COTG Skills Report.

Coaching On the Go is a unique and innovative approach to developing your coaching skills as part of your leadership toolkit and these coaching skills improve the impact you have on others. Importantly, you are not being taught to coach, but you are being taught how to use the skills of coaching as part of what you already do. This comprehensive course gives you insight into your existing skills and how to develop them further; and ensures you identify new practices for immediate use. You will receive personalised mentoring and coaching to deepen your personal experience and accelerate your impact.

You will be involved in activities with others throughout the course, both during the workshops and experimenting with colleagues. It is a highly personalised learning experience and includes short self-directed online videos, activities and other resources to prompt continuous reflection and change to make the learning stick.

The Coaching On the Go book illustrates the dimensions of coaching using examples of the activities of an airline crew – this is why we call this course, Flying First Class.

Simple to arrange and highly effective - you can choose to run this course exactly as described or we can create a customised solution that meets your specific needs.

In-person learning is usually delivered at your premises and individualised 1-2- support, virtually.

Our specialist facilitators are experts in their fields and can tailor our existing courses to suit the specific needs of your organisation - or alternatively, design courses and programmes that are entirely bespoke, crafted in response to the unique requirements of your business.

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WHAT TOPICS ARE COVERED ON THIS COURSE?

The introductory content is:

· How to make coaching part of your leadership.

· The science of becoming a leader-who-coaches.

· The 15 dimensions of coaching skills used in the workplace.

· Your current – and natural – use of coaching skills in your everyday work.

· The impact of organisational culture on your leadership skills

· How to weave coaching into what you do - not a ‘separate’ activity added to your long-list of existing tasks.

· How to design your own personal experiments to improve your impact as a leader-who-coaches.

Including the Business Class experience we also cover:

· In depth exploration of the 15 dimensions of coaching and how they relate to you and your impact.

· The importance of psychological safety.

· Delegation as a leadership tool irrespective of seniority.

· How leadership success requires collaboration to avoid the shackles of the redundant hero-leader model.

· Why coaching skills are considered a necessary part of leadership.

· Exploring your organisation’s culture and how your leadership behaviours are affected by that culture.

· Tools and methods to adapt your development and impact within your organisation’s dominant culture.

Finally, as befits First Class travel, we ensure more in-depth content is included, all with a personalised service:

• How to lead a team, whether a project team, ‘your’ team or a team you are part of.
• The opportunity to reflect on and navigate ‘live’ work situations with the course facilitators and your leadership coach. For example, how to use your Coaching On the Go skills to:
  
  • Keep the best and brightest talent engaged and motivated.
  • Reduce quiet quitting.
  • Encourage a coaching culture.
  • Work together with others to inspire change.
  • Embed agility and an agile mindset.Enhance wellbeing, personal and organisational resilience.

WHAT WILL I GET OUT OF ATTENDING THIS COURSE?

The key outcomes you will achieve, are:

• Changing and leveraging the impact you have on others, every day, through the coaching skills you use in your leadership.
• Improved teamwork through collaboration, irrespective of your position in the team.
• Adjusting your behaviours to improve as a leader-who-coaches.
• Modifying your behaviours within what you already do at work, without adding extra activities onto your existing ‘to-do’ list.
• Practising leadership skills that are simple and effective for everyday business settings.
• Designing and implementing your personal plan to continuously improve your leadership impact.
• Finding effective ways to work within your organisation’s culture and contributing to changes of that culture where appropriate.
• Evaluating your impact in a safe environment, using live examples. And adjusting your behaviours to suit your personal circumstances.
• Learning new and tailored tips and techniques you can put into use immediately.
• Creating straight forward actions to address your most pressing business challenges.

Additionally, you will have:

• Enhanced personal impact.
• Increased personal resilience and effectiveness.
• The ability to unleash the potential of others.
• Tools to improve employee engagement.
• Ways to develop talent.
• Techniques to support performance conversations and accountability.
• Leadership practices that build psychological safety.

The Coaching Skills for Leaders – Flying First Class course is for anyone wishing to develop their leadership skills. Whilst the focus is on coaching skills, participants will see how this fits within their day-to-day leadership practice. By undertaking this course, delegates from all roles within an organisation, should find that their performance and quality of work improves.

We recommend starting with key senior influencers and future Top Talent. This might include middle level managers, project leaders, functional leaders or leaders of centres of excellence for the greatest productivity impact.