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module 1
Introduction in Coaching for Leaders
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The Coaching Context
More and more companies are investing in training their leaders as coaches. Increasingly, coaching is becoming integral to the fabric of a learning culture—a skill that good leaders at all levels need to develop and deploy. In this lesson we aim to unpack the coaching context to understand where coaching fits in, what coaching is and is not and clarify what it takes to develop a coaching leadership style.
A Model for Coaching
The GROW coaching model is a tried and tested coaching model to structure coaching conversations. Simple, but not simplistic, the GROW model will be presented in this course as a framework for your coaching conversations. The power of the GROW coaching model is that it leads to a clearly defined end result through four phases. The coachee is personally active in identifying problems and generating ideas for solutions. This means that anything that comes out of the coaching session has a lot of chance to stick.
Listening to Encourage Thinking
This is so important, we put it at the top of the list. You can’t be a good coach unless you really, really listen. Note, it doesn’t just mean listening to what is being said. It also means listening to what is not being said. This is where you can really help your coachee – by asking insightful questions about what you notice might be going on for them.
Asking Powerful Questions
Asking questions is another one of the key skills of coaching. And yet, like listening, one could argue that this is also a basic conversational skill. This lesson considers the skill of asking powerful (thought-provoking) questions for the purposes of coaching. There is a discussion of particular types of questions appropriate to specific coaching situations. Asking questions is at the heart of great coaching. They are the tools of your trade.,,
Building Rapport
If you're a leader, it means you're in the business of people. Getting to know your people by building rapport is a critical part of succeeding in motivating and retaining them. With this new found rapport, you will have more of their trust and buy-in for things you need going forward. Rapport is what allows coachees to feel relaxed with their coaching leader and open up – so that personal barriers and fears can be identified. It also allows the coaching leader to ask harder and more challenging questions.
Relate with empathy
Empathy can be defined as our ability to put ourselves in others’ shoes and appreciate how they are likely to be feeling or thinking in a given situation. What might it feel like to be them? Daniel Goleman says that empathy is an important communication skill, but it can be easily forgotten because we focus on what should be done in a situation, rather than on how the other person feels.Practice empathy
Without empathy, there can be no understanding, and without understanding, we don’t ever truly know the people we interact with. It’s undoubtedly true that some people are naturally more attuned to other people’s thoughts, needs, and feelings. However, this is also something that can be practiced and developed over time — just like any other soft skill.
Summarising and paraphrasing
The advanced listening skills of summarising and paraphrasing/reflecting help you guide your coachee to allow them to make sense of what they are grappling with.
module 2
Intermediate in Coaching for Leaders
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Coaching for Character
In this lesson, we will look at growing your presence as a coach, through the robust process of becoming more emotionally intelligent. The reason for doing so is so that as you grow in maturity of character, so does the presence and space you provide others to also grow in maturity of character. We can take others just as far as we have gone ourselves! May this lesson allow you the space to go further in growth than you have before, and bring you to a place of maturity of character that will transform your and other’s life!The Power of Self-awareness
Our emotions are a direct consequence of our thoughts and interpretations of events. Therefore, we understand that changing the way we think will inevitably change our attitude and emotions. Our thoughts are often the last place we think of to make changes when it comes to our attitude and emotions. However, what we are thinking and how we react on it is the key to our ability to read our emotions, navigate them and recognise their impact on ourselves and those around us. This lesson is the first in entering the world of emotional intelligence through the door of self-awareness. The key to this door of self-awareness is understanding our thinking patterns and the underlying belief structures (frames of reference) that endorse it.Brain-based Coaching
As a result of brain-based coaching, one will break out of the deeply hardwired autopilot our brains favour and move into more conscious thought and deliberate action, embedding new and positive habits to achieve long-lasting change. Decades of Neuroscience research provides insights that the key to helping others improve, achieve and succeed, is to help them think for themselves. Brain-based coaching is founded on this principle.Cognitive Restructuring in Coaching
Examine the connection between coaching and cognitive restructuring, so that we have the strength and fortitude to overcome adversity, and to keep on moving forward towards our dreams and our goals. In order for us to be able to coach towards the growth and goals in others in the same way.Coaching for Boundaries
In this lesson we will look at how boundaries and the management thereof assists and safe-guard coaching. As well as assisting the coachee in their relationships and insights not only with other people, but within themself first!Coaching through Change
Leaders understand that things change, and that carefully made plans may, occasionally, need to be amended or scrapped. Flexibility is an essential part of leadership. By learning how to be more adaptable, you'll be better equipped to respond when faced with a life crisis. In this lesson we will help you understand change and becoming more flexible, and also to be able to manage change in others, so you are able to coach through change!Giving and Receiving Feedback
One of the most useful things for your coachee can be you pointing out to them things you are noticing about them, for instance, their behaviour, their reactions to questions, and their facial expressions. As coaching is about increasing self-awareness in the person being coached, the coach needs to know how to give helpful feedback. Providing high-quality, objective information to the person being coached can help to increase understanding of their situation. In addition, the coach needs to be able to positively accept feedback to improve their own practice.Coaching for Values and Vision
If you have clarity in values, goals and a personal vision, you will have a guide for decisions, become meaning-driven and inner-directed, think in the long-term, and maintain balance in your life. You will also be able to influence those you coach and lead, and provide the space for them to discover their own!
