How is this different from all the other coaching training workshops available?
The Coaching for Great Work program is built on some fundamentally different principles from many of the currently available workshops:
1. Coaching is a means to an end, not an end in itself.
This means that the Coaching for Great Work training program always helps participants put the training in the context of current and relevant business goals.
2. Build the training program you need.
As well as the one-day core training program, Coaching for Great Work is often customized by clients to fit their specific strategic needs. For instance, customized versions of the training program have:
- Supported organizations to help make their consultants more effective and increase client renewals
- Increased resilience of executive leadership during a significant change program, and
- Helped sales managers reduce the turnover for their front-line sales force.
3. Coaching can and should take place in ten minutes or less.
In today’s busy work environment, few people have time for extended coaching conversations. External coaches are, ironically, poor role models for internal coaches. In this program we provide a tool to help prioritize current commitments and teach coaching processes that take place in ten minutes or less.
4. Zen enlightenment not required.
You don’t even need to have a higher degree in psychology to be a coach. The Coaching for Great Work training program focuses on three “coaching moments” and some simple but flexible structures to respond to those coaching moments. It lessens managers and executives’ anxiety that they have to be a Coach (and that is somehow different from who they already are) and helps them see that this type of coaching training is a practical and applicable addition to their current management skills.
“I was concerned that we could not deliver coaching skills training to our group effectively. We have a truly global group and a very senior group, many of whom have held C-level positions in major corporations. They are analytical and critical by nature and training. And finally they had been subjected to less than optimal professional development opportunities in the past, to say the least. What Michael delivered not only turned their skepticism into enthusiasm but I heard back from participants almost immediately that they were using what they learned and, most importantly, that it was working for them and making a difference.”
Michael J. Leckie, VP HR, Gartner, Inc.
Is this for your organization?
The Coaching for Great Work training program is specifically designed for:
- HR leaders who want coaching to have more impact in their organization
- Change leaders and their teams who want to introduce and embed coaching as a tactic to help ensure success
- Professional Service providers who want to shift and deepen the relationships with their clients
- Managers, executives and leaders who want to be more effective coaches with their teams
- Independent coaches and facilitators wanting to expand their coaching capabilities.
It’s also perfect if any of these are getting in the way of you coaching at work. You’re…
Allergic to too “touchy feely” fuzzy conversations that aren’t connected to business priorities.
- Fed up with getting lost in the middle of a coaching conversation – and not knowing how to get out again.
- Suffering whiplash already from too much vigorous nodding to indicate active listening
- Way too busy for long coaching conversations that go on and on and on with no discernible end in sight.
“The most frequent feedback I heard after the workshop was ‘the best workshop I have ever participated in.’”
Ludmila Schaferová, HR Director, GlaxoSmithKline
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