Workshop:
Developmental Coaching for Leaders
Highly respected corporate leaders such as Jack Welch of General Electric and Roger Enrico of Pepsico spent a high proportion of their time and energy developing the next generation of leaders. For them, this is a highly personal activity requiring extensive one-on-one interaction. The most powerful form of leadership development takes place not in the classroom but from leaders developing other leaders.
This workshop provides a solid framework for effective leadership coaching. Your current concept of developing leadership skills in your team will be challenged and expanded, and you will find ample opportunity to practise and consolidate new knowledge and skills.
Who Should Attend?
Leaders at all levels who are responsible for developing others. Optimal group size is 6-9 participants (one facilitator) or up to 18 participants (two facilitators).
Workshop Objectives
By attending this highly interactive workshop, participants will:
- Reinforce and build on your past coaching experiences and success.
- Challenge and expand your existing mental models of coaching.
- Move beyond performance coaching into the realm of developmental coaching.
- Understand coaching as a primary leadership skill.
- Practice the essential skills for developmental coaching.
- Expand your ability to provide value-adding feedback to others.
- Learn how to approach more complex and challenging coaching situations.
- Receive individual coaching during the workshop and observe team coaching in action.
Workshop Duration
Three days with about seven contact hours daily. Because of the intensive nature of the workshop, we recommend holding the workshop on a residential basis if possible to facilitate the use of evenings for individual reflection and preparation.
Workshop Content
What is Leadership Coaching?
- Reviewing your experience coaching and being coached
- Contrasting performance and developmental coaching
- A model for developmental coaching
The Coaching Relationship
- Why it is so critical for developmental coaching
- Tools for bulding the coaching relationship
Initial Exploration of the Issues
- Setting the climate
- Framing questions to draw out issues
- Using reflective listening to clarify and explore
- Learning activity: applying new skills
Assessment and Deeper Understanding
- Self-assessing your current leadership coaching capabilities
- Using assessment tools with others
- Evaluating and interpreting assessment results
- Expanding your capacity to view the situation from another person's perspective
Emotional Intelligence and Self-Development
- The link between emotional intelligence and developmental coaching
- Assessing your EI
- Identifying and planning for growth opportunities
Contracting for Desired Outcomes
- Identifying and agreeing on desired outcomes
- Agreeing on level of commitment
Exploring and Designing Options
- Using questions to reveal options
- Exploring consequences
- Learning activity: Simulation in triads
Giving Value-Adding Feedback
- Feedback as a mirror for learning and growth
- Mastering a format and guidelines for effective feedback
- Dealing with resistance to feedback
- Skills practice: Simulation in triads
- Debrief: Giving feedback on feedback
Practical Applications for Leadership Coaching
- Increasing team alignment
- Addressing conflicts
- Encouraging feedback between team members
Handling Special Coaching Challenges
- Coaching upwards
- Coaching peers
- Coaching destructive employees
- Intervening at a third party's request
Integrating and Applying New Learning
- Triad simulations of real-life coaching situations
- Process observation and feedback
- Feedback on feedback
- Individual reflection and action planning
Closing
- Developing a personal action plan
- Commitment statements
- Closing celebration