Coaching for Performance and Development

An old Chinese proverb says ‘Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.’ A purely directive approach to management, whilst ensuring that a task is executed, does little to help people to develop a sense of how to do things for themselves.  Coaching helps people to become self-sufficient, using their own resources to solve problems, determine the best method of working and become more creative and productive. This intensive and highly interactive training course will help you to develop the skills of coaching excellence. This GLOMACS training course will lead you through every stage of the coaching process to help you to develop your staff to become self-sufficient. As they learn to think more for themselves and work with reduced supervision, so they make better use of their time and free up more of yours – a win/win for your entire team.

By participating in this training course, you will:

• Be able to coach confidently, based on sound, tried and tested principles
• Be able to develop a more self-sufficient workforce
• Motivate your staff more effectively
• Have a real structure for coaching, which can be used both in formal and informal coaching conversations
• Be able to apply a range of different tools in coaching
• Be able to adapt your coaching style across different cultures
• Be able to help your staff to grow professionally and personally

We use accelerated learning techniques to embed learning and enhance recall. Every theory is immediately grounded in working practice, so that transfer of learning to day-to-day work is easy and immediate. Coaching is a highly practical skill and the course will offer delegates many opportunities to coach each other in a safe and supportive environment. We will use a combination of presentation, small and plenary group discussions and practical paired activities, ‘freeze-frame’ role play, forum theatre, video, business games and case studies.

Organisations in which coaching is used widely have discovered many benefits, including:

• A greater talent pool
• Stronger technical skills
• More self-sufficiency amongst staff
• Higher motivation as staff rely on self-direction more than external supervision
• More time available to senior staff to focus on strategic development
• Higher staff retention
• Reduction in the costs of training

Staff who have been well coached:

• Build skills and knowledge at a deeper level of ability and understanding
• Feel much more supported by their organisation
• Develop a greater sense of self-sufficiency
• Quickly become more productive
• Develop higher morale

Leaders, Managers, Line Managers, Administrators, Talent Managers, HR Staff, Supervisors and Anyone:

• With responsibility for managing and developing others in the workplace
• Who wants to increase their range of leadership and management styles
• Who wants to enhance their communication skills at work
• Who has a genuine interest in the development of themselves and other professionals