Join the Coaching for Great Work team Part III – The C4GW program
The Coaching for Great Work (C4GW) program
C4GW is a one day (core) or two day (extended) training program for managers and leaders in medium and large organizations (typically Fortune 1000 companies). It is designed to give the participants practical coaching skills.
How is C4GW different?
It differs from many of the other coaching course offerings in the marketplace on a number of points:
It is built around and addresses the points of resistance managers have to coaching, the two most significant being a lack of time (“when will I do this?”) and a lack of context (“why is this important to me, to my organization?”)
It focuses not on training coaching behaviour (behaviour being a difficult thing to change and next to impossible in a single training course) but on three core coaching structures – simple, flexible and powerful processes to follow.
It’s in modular format, which means it can be adapted to fit with specific client needs. Coaching is a means to an end, not an end in itself, and the more flexibility you can have in connecting the coaching with the strategic goal, the more impact it will have (and the easier it is to sell).
It encourages participants to abandon the role model of the external coach, which sets up a number of assumptions that don’t work as an internal coach.
It has an extensive on-going performance support to help ensure the learning sticks and is applied.
It has been ‘road tested’ and fine tuned in many workshops and in a wide range of countries and cultures, such as North America, UK, Western and Eastern Europe, Australia and India.
The core program
The core program consists of six modules
1. Setting the context
2. From Good Work to Great Work
3. Finding the time
4. Coaching Moment #1: Get Clear
5. Coaching Moment #2: Create Possibilities
6. Coaching Moment #3: Spark Action
The program is limited to between 12 and 18 participants to ensure there’s time and space for individual guidance.
The extended program
The extended program can be adapted to specific strategic concerns the client may have. We’ve developed a number of different modules that we can fit together as most appropriate for the client. This means the program can be tailored for different audiences in different organizations. For example, versions of the extended C4GW program have been run for:
Senior consultants at a professional service firm to help them engage their clients in more powerful relationships and increase the retention of those clients.
Sales managers at a telecommunications company to help them better manage their sales force and reduce turnover.
Leaders of a non-profit organization to help increase their organizational resilience during a re-branding and reorganization effort.
The modules of the extended program include:
==> Drama Triangle
==> Nonviolent Communication (based on the work of Marshall Rosenberg)
==> The social contract
==> NLP’s perceptual positions
==> Somatic coaching
Participants’ materials
Participants receive these materials:
==> A workbook with worksheets and key slides
==> Four “coaching cards” with the key structures and best questions
==> Michael’s book, Find Your Great Work (forthcoming)
Ongoing performance support
The C4GW program also recognizes the critical importance of follow up and performance support. The metaphor I use to explain this is that we’re trying to create “drip irrigation” rather than the usual “flash flood” of a single training course. The performance support includes:
==> A 13 or 26 week eCourse (depending on core or extended version)
==> One or two follow-up teleconferences run by the trainer (depending on core or extended version)
==> Buddying system between participants established by the trainer on the day
==> Podcast library of key learning points recorded by Michael
Still interested?
==> Part IV tells you about the Train-the-Trainer program
==> Part V is a Question & Answer section
==> Part VI tells you how to apply
- Join the Coaching for Great Work team Part IV – The Train the Trainer program
- Join the Coaching for Great Work team Part II – Who we’re looking for
- Join the Coaching for Great Work team Part I – Overview
- Join the Coaching for Great Work team Part V – Questions & Answers
- Join the Coaching for Great Work team Part VI – How to apply
