Coaching Tools for Managers

Developing one’s direct reports’ competencies consists of encouraging them to seek solutions to their problems on their own, helping them advance to monitored autonomy, increasing their appreciation for complementarity within their team and coming up with innovative ideas. Coaching Skills are an essential part of these core management competencies.

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All managers looking to expand coaching skills and improve their team through performance coaching, and employee development

Objectifs

• Test and acquire appropriate coaching tools to better accompany team members in reaching their objectives and obtaining better results
• Develop effective interpersonal communication skills and behaviour
• Use coaching tools to find creative solutions
• Learn to draw out your direct report's needs, skills, drivers and behaviour to motivate him/her, effect positive changes and achieve results.
• Learn and practise how to prepare a coaching session and how to manage the coaching process.
• Understand how vital coaching skills are to effective people management in specific situations.
• Recognize when coaching is not the most appropriate management style to adopt.

Programme

• Coaching techniques adapted to Situational Management
• The 18 coaching competencies
• Active Listening: Concepts, tools, benefits
• Coaching for Creativity: tools for finding creative solutions
• Motivation: tools to determine drivers and motive teams
• Coaching Toolbox
• Coaching to drive the change process: vision, strategies, tools
• Questioning tools for project management
• Lateral thinking tools for enlarging perception
• Coaching Sessions: Exploring the objective and checking for coherency
• Real case simulations with detailed feedback

Méthodes et moyens pédagogiques

• The theory, methodology, and concrete tools from business coaching
• Learners relating their own experiences to each other
• DVDs, quizzes, question sheets, specific thinking cards.
• Situational simulations, Role plays, debriefing and feedback on implementing coaching competencies
• The behaviour model DISC. A detailed personal report will be handed out during the training.