Coaching skills

Strong coaching skills will increase your effectiveness as you learn to accelerate the development of others. In this course, you will gain insight into a coaching attitude, role and styles. In an authentic and transparent way, staying true to your own personal values. You will practice with several coaching models and techniques, to boost the effectiveness of your coaching conversations. The course will not specifically focus on how you can solve the problems for your coachee. Instead the course will focus on teaching you the skills and give you necessary tools to guide your coachee towards finding their own solutions.

This course is based on learning by doing. We accelerate your learning process through interactive homework assignments, presentations, group exercises, buddy coaching, discussions, personal case studies and action planning. In high impact practice sessions, you will work as coach, coachee and observer. By engaging your manager, you will get sustainable results.

The following subjects are covered:

• The coaching attitude, role and styles
• Tapping into values and ambition as drivers for change
• Coaching mindset and meta-skills
• Powerful questions
• Levels of listening
• Contracting in coaching
• Structuring the conversation (GROW model)
• Strength-based coaching
• Coaching in difficult situations
• Actions and accountability

• You understand your role as coach and use coaching skills to develop others
• You coach people on results from a focus on ambition, values and strengths
• You apply listening and questioning techniques to identify underlying issues
• You inspire others by adapting an attitude of sincere interest and challenge
• You use the GROW model as a technique to achieve clear results
• You adapt your coaching style appropriately to different situations