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Leader as Coach


“Leader as Coach” 2-day workshop:

Program objectives:

The objective of this workshop is to introduce managers to a less directive management style that will help individuals and teams to become more effective. The more interactive style of performance management adopted by managers with basic coaching skills improves communication, clarifies goals and enables individuals to learn how to learn for themselves, thus empowering them to be more flexible and enabling them to take more personal responsibility.

At the end of the workshop participants will have a foundation understanding and appreciation of the power and application of coaching in the workplace, together with a set of inter-personal skills that can add tremendous value in their professional and personal life.

  • Learn and practise powerful coaching skills that can be immediately applied in the workplace.
  • Explore specific applications of coaching that can release and develop latent skills in the team.
  • Learn to improve relationships and communication within teams.

Methodology:

The workshop is highly interactive with plenty of opportunities for participants to learn by coaching each other and is followed by ten BytesizedLessons™ delivered by email. These reminders and exercises ensure that the learning is retained and that further progress is made when the individuals get an opportunity to apply the learning in the workplace.

Program outline:

  • Introduction to coaching.
  • Coaching, mentoring, counselling.
  • Intake meetings.
  • The coaching context.
  • Corporate context.
  • Stakeholders.
  • Coaching ethics.
  • Coaching models.
  • Fundamental coaching model.
  • Sundquist model.
  • GROW model.


Coaching & NeuroLinguistic Programming (NLP):

  • Three Ticks coaching model.
  • Rapport.
  • Understanding personality.
  • Quality questions.
  • Logical levels of change.
  • Perceptual positions.
  • Setting well formed outcomes.


Applications of coaching:

  • Dealing with underperformance.
  • Conflict management.
  • Investing in high fliers.
  • Promotion and induction.
  • Building successful teams.


From The Blog

The action of challenge has been a recurring theme for me in recent days. I had forgotten how important it is to be challenged and to challenge others. Growth is dependent on this dynamic and as leaders we can forget that this is a powerful way to motivate, excite, engage, intensify and wake-up the talent around us. As leaders we must expand our range of styles in this domain of challenge.  

Busyness and action are the bywords of our current lives. There is no room for space/emptiness/quietness/nothingness. These seem to be the enemy that no one is prepared to succumb to, so we fight it off by always being on the go, most of it in the name of productivity. 

Sir John Whitmore shares a true story of a key moment of awakening that created a positive powerful engagement of his true capabilities. Speaking here at the recent ICF European Conference 2011, Sir John is considered one of the founders of the modern coaching industry. 

In a joint initiative aimed at self-regulation, the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) and the International Coach Federation (ICF) today file with the European Union a common Code of Conduct as the benchmark standard for the coaching and mentoring industry.

 

Our interview today gives great insight into the challenge faced by all leaders in the Middle East namely, ‘how to adapt our leadership style to this specific market with specific nuances’.  

The ‘Executive Next Level’ interview this week is with a top US executive coach. The content is about leadership and the challenges being faced by those people leading organisations in the US as well as thoughts on the key steps we can and should take in stepping up in our leadership of self and others. 

This is the percentage of Middle East Professionals who are looking for a change in career. The recent poll by Bayt.com has highlighted the large gap that exists between employees and their engagement or commitment in their current organisations. 

Yesterday we were invited to speak at the Dubai Financial HR Forum. As people that are passionate about coaching it is great to be able to engage with this high level of HR experience in global organisations and see that coaching has a critical role to play.  

Following a fantastic event in Paris last year I will be attending the ICF conference in Madrid this year.  This is where the leading coaches in Europe convene to talk about and share coaching practices and thinking. 

31st May-1st June 2011
For the first time in the Middle East a conference dedicated solely to Coaching is being run in Kuwait. Woodthorpe Wright Associates have been invited to speak at the conference due to our extensive regional experience in this arena. 

Testimonials 

“We are extremely pleased with the work that Woodthorpe Wright Associates has done or is doing with the 5 IHG Leaders and in particular with their approach in understanding the objectives of both the coachee and the company.”

Jenny Atkinson
Vice President Human Resources
Middle East & Africa
InterContinental Hotel Group


“The development session…was a complete success. Much of the outstanding results was down to the Woodthorpe Wright Associates observation, accurate appraisal of people and the follow-up coaching sessions.”

John F. G. Willox
Vice President
Global Training & Learning
Hilti AG



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