Leading by asking
The Coaching Leader.
A day on leading by asking rather than telling: coaching models, adult learning and the practical skills to coach individuals and teams.
- Level
- Immerse
- Learning time
- 9 hours
- Where
- Leading yourself
- Price
- £249
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Certificate of Completion, or Certificate of Completion and Assessment with a short assessment
Overview and Outcomes.
Who It's For
Managers and leaders who want to lead through coaching
Overview
Leading by asking rather than telling is one of the most effective habits a manager can develop, and one of the hardest to sustain. Leading by asking grounds coaching in its foundations: Passmore's continuum of helping, Bordin's working alliance and de Haan's evidence on the coaching relationship. It traces models from Gallwey's inner game to Whitmore's GROW and Bungay Stanier's coaching habit, connects coaching to Kolb, Knowles and how adults develop, and explores person-centred, solution-focused and cognitive behavioural approaches. A practical toolkit, buddy and peer coaching, emotional intelligence and feedback conversations follow, and the day closes with team coaching, reflexivity and building a coaching culture.
Aims
The aim is to help managers and leaders lead through coaching: building the relationships, questions and listening that help people think for themselves and grow. It develops both the individual skill of coaching conversations and the wider capability to coach teams and to grow a coaching culture across the organisation.
In summary, you will be able to:
- Distinguish coaching from mentoring, training and counselling, and explain how the coaching relationship and adult development theory shape good practice.
- Use coaching models, powerful questions and person-centred, solution-focused or cognitive behavioural approaches in everyday conversations with colleagues.
- Plan how to extend coaching beyond one-to-one conversations through team coaching, peer coaching and a stronger coaching culture.
What you'll develop
By the end of this Immerse, you will be able to:
- Distinguish training, coaching, mentoring and counselling, and identify which conversation you are in.
- Explain Gallwey's formula of performance as potential minus interference, and his Self 1 and Self 2.
- Describe Rogers's three core conditions of empathy, congruence and unconditional positive regard, and how they shape coaching presence.
- Plan a coaching session by clarifying whether it is about development or performance and choosing a suitable setting.
- Assess where your organisation sits on Clutterbuck and Megginson's four stages of a coaching culture.
- Compare Ekman's classical theory of emotion with Barrett's theory of constructed emotion and identify where they genuinely disagree and where they agree.
- Give specific, caring and direct feedback using Situation, Behaviour, Impact and Radical Candor, and explain why the feedback sandwich undermines both criticism and praise.
- Describe Edmondson's team learning behaviours and West's team reflexivity cycle.
Built from 7 parts.
9 hours of learning.
- 01The coaching conversationCoaching and mentoring basics and the GROW modelBitesize · Coaching and Mentoring3 modules
- 02How people learn and growAdult learning and solution-focused coachingBitesize · Coaching and Mentoring2 modules
- 03Changing the thinkingCognitive behavioural coaching and techniquesBitesize · Coaching and Mentoring2 modules
- 04A culture of coachingBuilding a coaching culture and peer coachingBitesize · Coaching and Mentoring2 modules
- 05Know yourself, steady yourselfEmotions, self-awareness and self-managementBitesize · Emotional Intelligence2 modules
- 06The conversations that countFeedback, coaching and conflict for managersBitesize · Management1 module
- 07Teams that learnTeam coaching, reflexivity and debriefsBitesize · Team Development2 modules