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"This is the best course I have taken in 30 years with the bank."

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"It’s clear that when it comes to habits, it's about self-awareness: recognizing how you behave and learning about the choices you have and how you can start to alter those habits that aren’t serving you personally or professionally. This program was really helpful because it made our team really start thinking, 'In these situations, how do I behave and how can I improve that?' What surprised me the most was that it was not only a valuable training experience in terms of content, it was actually a really enjoyable experience and Michael had our team fully engaged the entire time. Not an easy thing to do with Gen Y. You don’t always get that with these types of sessions."

Matt Tod, Training & Development, Free the Children

The Coaching Habit™

Good intentions aren’t enough

As a leader, you know the value of developing coaching skills – coaching can increase focus and capacity, reduce overwhelm and dependency, and drive both engagement and impact.

But even with the best of intentions, today’s time-strapped managers and leaders often find themselves defaulting to a limited old-school management approach: tell them rather than ask them; solve it for them rather than helping them figure out. It perpetuates bottlenecks, fire-fighting and managers with just too much stuff on their plate.

Theory, models and exhortations to “do more coaching” aren’t going to make a difference. We need to help managers and leaders in developing the coaching skills, insights and support so that they change their behaviour and coaching becomes a habit – and a regular and useful part of their management repertoire.

Developing the coaching habit

This innovative program is an introduction to coaching skills for managers and leaders. Beginning with a half-day session, the coaching program includes three things that make the difference and help develop coaching skills as an every day habit.

First, we help managers, executives and leaders understand how and why they’re so quickly and easily tempted to jump in and be the advice-giver and the problem-solver – and the price that they (and the employees they’re managing) pay for this. With this new understanding, it becomes easier for them to disarm the advice “hair-trigger” so that managers can use their coaching skills when the occasion calls for it.

Second, we focus on a range of practical next-day ready coaching tools to increase focus, engagement and impact, including:

Finally, we establish a 90-day process as a follow-up to the introduction to coaching skills for managers. This helps embed the new tools, skills and behaviours and get it “in their bones”. It includes:

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If you’re looking for an introduction to coaching for managers and leaders that makes coaching a habit and not just a lucky guess, The Coaching Habit is perfect for your organization. Complete the inquiry form to the left or use our contact page. We’ll be in touch within 24 hours.

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