Leadership Growth: Coaching Skills for Effective Leaders

Unlock your potential as an inspiring leader with "Leadership Growth: Coaching Skills for Effective Leaders." This course introduces coaching leadership, a transformative approach that fosters motivation, accelerates execution, and improves work quality by empowering individuals.

• Foundations of Coaching: Define coaching leadership, explore its historical development, and distinguish it from psychology, therapy, and mentoring.
• Milton Erickson’s Foundational Principles: Understand core humanistic principles, including inherent resourcefulness and positive intentions.
• Core Principles of Effective Coaching Leadership: Learn to activate resources, clarify goals, generate options, secure decisions, and make progress visible.
• Resource Orientation & Positive Goal Images: Shift from problem-focused thinking to solution-driven visioning and goal setting.
• Responsibility & Commitment: Cultivate accountability through clear commitments and agreements.
• Coaching Models & Tools: Dive deep into practical frameworks:
  • The GROW Model: Achieve goal clarity and actionable plans.
  • The SCORE Model: Make robust, well-grounded decisions for complex strategies.
  • Scaling Techniques: Quantify progress and identify incremental next steps.
  • The Disney Strategy: Enhance creative thinking by separating Dreamer, Realist, and Critic roles.
  • The 10-10-10 Rule: Gain perspective for informed decision-making across different timeframes.
  • The Wheel of Life: Visually assess and balance professional areas.
  • Gremlins (Inner Critics): Identify and disarm self-sabotaging thoughts.
• Four Leadership Roles: Differentiate and consciously apply the roles of Coach, Mentor, Consultant, and Therapist.
• Core Competencies of a Coaching Leader: Master empathy, powerful questions, strategic clarity, feedback, and accountability.
• Coaching Rituals & Conversation Roadmap: Establish consistent practices and navigate coaching interactions from goal setting to follow-up.
• Templates for Practical Application: Utilize guides for 1:1 coaching, delegation, and feedback (SBI+I).
• Team Practices: Learn the Team Retrospective Guide and Change Roadmap for collective growth.
• Case Studies: Apply coaching principles to real-world scenarios:
  • Performance Dip After Role Change
  • Product vs. Sales Conflict
  • Onboarding Stalls
• Questioning Techniques: Employ open/closed, clarifying, reflective, scaling, hypothetical, solution-focused, future-oriented, action-oriented, empowering, challenging, and advanced questions.
• Advanced Cognitive Tools: Understand and apply the Metamodel for deeper insights.
• Modeling & Four Points of Perception: Learn from success and gain comprehensive understanding from diverse viewpoints.
• Manifestation & Journal of Progress: Intentionally bring desired outcomes to reality and track your growth journey.

By the end of this course, you will be equipped with a robust toolkit of coaching practices and dynamics, empowering you to foster self-reliance, solve complex problems, and drive continuous improvement within your teams.