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Coach.Coach.Coach. - Leading with Impact (LWI-C.C.C.)

Coaching has emerged as an essential skill in today's business world. Applying a coaching mindset and skills will help you to become more effective and creative as a leader and contributor in your...

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$995 USD
Duration 1 day
Course Code 8623
Available Formats Virtual, Classroom

Overview

Coaching has emerged as an essential skill in today's business world. Applying a coaching mindset and skills will help you to become more effective and creative as a leader and contributor in your organization. And it will enable the people you coach to do the same.

In this highly participative one-day course, you will learn and practice a four-step coaching process. From starting coaching conversations, ensuring skillful dialogue and exploration of coaching topics, to overcoming resistance, you will learn the process, skills, and techniques to effectively coach to a desired outcome. You will actively engage with a real-work scenario throughout the course, practice each of the steps in the coaching process, and plan to apply your approach back on the job.

Benefits for the Coach

  • Better understand the reality of the people you coach
  • Build trust and mutual respect
  • Open up new possibilities
  • Gain commitment to desired future
  • Enhance communication skills
  • Increase confidence in the ability to coach

Benefits for the Individual Being Coached

  • Explore issues in collaborative and creative ways
  • Discover new possibilities
  • Create opportunity for open and honest conversations
  • Experience increased personal and organizational support
  • Provide opportunities to stretch capabilities
  • Enhance personal commitment to responsibilities

Benefits for the Organization

  • Increase engagement of employees
  • Create a culture of coaching
  • Reduce employee turnover

Skills Gained

  • Understand your coaching capabilities through a coaching assessment
  • What coaching is and is not
  • Apply and practice the four-step Coaching Process (Initiate, Clarify, Explore, Act) in a real work situation
  • Create an environment of mutual respect and trust
  • Use questioning techniques to better identify the coaching topic
  • Gain commitment from employees on the coaching topic
  • Actively listen to solicit information and increase employee comfort
  • Engage in non-judgmental questions with employees to open up new possibilities
  • Check and challenge your/your employees' assumptions to overcome barriers and blind spots
  • Promote brainstorming to discover alternatives, new frames of reference, and ways forward
  • Reframe problems to overcome old frames of reference and limiting beliefs
  • Select alternatives for the way forward
  • Overcome resistance to new ideas and stretch personal capabilities
  • Contract a mutual agreement of accountability for the way forward
  • Follow up effectively on progress toward the desired future
  • Apply this practical learning in the workplace immediately
  • Seek feedback on coaching skills

Who Can Benefit

Leaders at all levels: vice presidents, directors, managers, supervisors, team leaders, peer coaches, project managers and anyone who wants to be more effective and creative as a leader and contributor

Prerequisites

Prework for this course should be completed one week in advance and brought to class.

Course Details

1. What Coaching Is and Isn't

  • Coaching in a large group environment

2. The Business Case for Coaching

  • Three benefactors to coaching
    • The person being coached
    • The coach
    • The organization
  • Coaching in your organization
  • Difference between feedback and coaching

3. A Coaching Mindset

  • Conversation is a coaching mindset

4. Best Coaches

  • Identifying certain skills, attitudes, and mindsets of the best coaches you have experienced

5. The Coaching Process

  • Four steps

6. Step 1: Initiate focuses

  • Creating mutual respect and trust
  • Identifying the presenting topic
  • Gaining commitment to proceed

7. Triad Role Play

8. Video

  • Identify the three key actions of Step 1

9. Step 2: Clarify Focuses

  • Listening actively
  • Asking non-judgmental questions
  • Checking for assumptions

10. Individual Exercise

  • Assessing how easy it is to be present, curious, and non-judgmental

11. Active Listening Exercises

  • Importance of improving active listening skills using pre-work assignment

12. Non-Judgmental Questions

  • Reworking judgmental questions into non-judgmental questions

13. Check for Assumptions Reflection

  • Assumptions you might be making when coaching

14. Triad Role Play

15. Video

  • Identifying the three key actions

16. Step 3: Explore Focuses

  • Reframing
  • Searching for alternatives
  • Selecting alternatives

17. Reframing

  • Powerful questioning technique

18. Search for Alternative and Select Alternatives

  • New ways forward and help employees select the best ideas based on fixed or non-negotiable criteria

19. Resistance Exercises

  • Overcoming resistance

20. Video

  • Identifying the three key actions

21. Step 4: Act Focuses

  • Establishing next steps
  • Establishing accountabilities
  • Following up

22. Lecture and Large Group Discussion

  • Ensuring mutual agreement of accountabilities and next steps

23. Ideal Follow Up Exercise

  • What does an ideal follow up look like?

24. Video

25. Triad Role Play

26. Coaching Mindset

  • How has your coaching mindset has shifted?

27. Action Plan

  • Planning for your coaching conversation using the Coach. Coach. Coach. worksheet
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FAQ

Does the course schedule include a Lunchbreak?

Classes typically include a 1-hour lunch break around midday. However, the exact break times and duration can vary depending on the specific class. Your instructor will provide detailed information at the start of the course.

What languages are used to deliver training?

Most courses are conducted in English, unless otherwise specified. Some courses will have the word "FRENCH" marked in red beside the scheduled date(s) indicating the language of instruction.

What does GTR stand for?

GTR stands for Guaranteed to Run; if you see a course with this status, it means this event is confirmed to run. View our GTR page to see our full list of Guaranteed to Run courses.

Does Ascendient Learning deliver group training?

Yes, we provide training for groups, individuals and private on sites. View our group training page for more information.

What does vendor-authorized training mean?

As a vendor-authorized training partner, we offer a curriculum that our partners have vetted. We use the same course materials and facilitate the same labs as our vendor-delivered training. These courses are considered the gold standard and, as such, are priced accordingly.

Is the training too basic, or will you go deep into technology?

It depends on your requirements, your role in your company, and your depth of knowledge. The good news about many of our learning paths, you can start from the fundamentals to highly specialized training.

How up-to-date are your courses and support materials?

We continuously work with our vendors to evaluate and refresh course material to reflect the latest training courses and best practices.

Are your instructors seasoned trainers who have deep knowledge of the training topic?

Ascendient Learning instructors have an average of 27 years of practical IT experience and have also served as consultants for an average of 15 years. To stay current, instructors spend at least 25 percent of their time learning new, emerging technologies and courses.

Do you provide hands-on training and exercises in an actual lab environment?

Lab access is dependent on the vendor and the type of training you sign up for. However, many of our top vendors will provide lab access to students to test and practice. The course description will specify lab access.

Will you customize the training for our company’s specific needs and goals?

We will work with you to identify training needs and areas of growth.  We offer a variety of training methods, such as private group training, on-site of your choice, and virtually. We provide courses and certifications that are aligned with your business goals.

How do I get started with certification?

Getting started on a certification pathway depends on your goals and the vendor you choose to get certified in. Many vendors offer entry-level IT certification to advanced IT certification that can boost your career. To get access to certification vouchers and discounts, please contact info@ascendientlearning.com.

Will I get access to content after I complete a course?

You will get access to the PDF of course books and guides, but access to the recording and slides will depend on the vendor and type of training you receive.

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