Essential Skills For Coaching

Do you ever feel like your team want you to make every single decision at work? Using a coaching style with others will not only save you time at work, but will empower others and help them develop their own problem solving abilities. The result – better decisions at work, a motivated workforce and more time for you to do the things that really matter instead of getting tied up in day to day decisions.

In the right situations, coaching questions can be used to help you conduct staff performance reviews, deal with day to day management and help people work through complex issues.

The aim is to:

To practice and gain confidence using the GROW model in order to have an effective coaching conversation.

Content:

• Understand the founding principles of coaching
• Understand the core skills needed for coaching and practice using those skills
• Look at how distorting, deleting and generalising get in the way of good decision making
• Practice listening and questioning skills
• Practice using the GROW coaching model