Coaching Skills for Leaders Advanced Certificate gives the essential skills needed to transform your managers into competent, confident coaching leaders. During the programme, participants will learn the eight essential coaching skills and the LEDA 5-Step Coaching Model to conduct efficient coaching conversations with their staff.

COURSE OUTLINE - DAY 1

Module 1: The Fundamentals of Leadership Coaching

• Understanding the potential of coaching to increase team performance

• Identifying ​when leadership coaching ​is the right intervention

• Aligning leadership coaching with organisational goals and KPIs

Module 2: Creating a Positive Coaching Relationship

• Building trust and positive rapport

• Recognising achievement and motivating self-belief

• Developing professional listening skills

• Sharing feedback and feedforward

Module 3: Coach Questioning Skills

• Five essential questioning skills for coaches

• Scaling technique for setting achievable targets

• Chaining together core coaching skills

Module 4: Coaching to Commitment

• Developing pinpointing skills

• Coaching to commitment to action

COURSE OUTLINE - DAY 2

Module 5: Framing and Focusing Coaching Conversations

• The LEDA 5-Step Coaching System

• Coaching using the principles of Lean Management

• LEDA Step 1: Framing and focusing coaching conversations

• Practical Coaching Experience 1

Module 6: Solution-Focused Coaching

• LEDA Step 2: Discovering the Current State - Baselining skills

• LEDA Step 3: Set the Target State - Identifying the next level of challenge

• Practical Coaching Experience 2

• LEDA Step 4: Generating Possible Solutions

Module 7: Engaging Dynamic Action

• LEDA Step 5: Coaching to Commitment

• Practical Coaching Experience 3

• Practising all 5 steps of LEDA Coaching Conversations

Module 8: Development Through Reflective Practice

• Developing reflective practice

• Assessment 1

• Setting next steps to embed and enhance coaching skills

COURSE OUTLINE - DAY 3

Module 9: Applied Skills Review & Development

• Learning log review

• Strengthening coaching communication and confidence

• Showcase preparation

Module 10: Practical Skills Showcase

• Showcase coaching developments through practice

• Providing observational feedback and challenges to the client

• Overcoming common coaching relationship challenges

Module 11: Harnessing the Power of Feedback and Self-Reflection

• Requesting constructive feedback

• Developing reflective practice

• Taking coaching skills to the next level

Module 12: Developing a Coaching Culture

• How to develop a coaching culture across an organisation

• Delivering measurable improvements for the organisation

IMPORTANT NOTE ON PROGRAMME STRUCTURE

• 2 Week Interval between Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3

• Participants will use LEDA Next-Level App for work-based activities

Upon completion, successful learners will be awarded certification from LEDA Coaching Systems UK and from the British Association for Coaching:

‘Recognised Leader as Coach’ Certificate LEDA Level 3

Organisations will have:

• Trained leaders who can coach competently

• Enhanced management communication

• Motivated and positive staff engagement

• Powerful connections with millennials

• Empowered staff who exercise initiative

• High individual and team performance

• Retention of highest performing staff

Managers at all levels and High potential prospective and future managers.