The Coaching Edge^™

Inspiring excellent perfomance

Coaching is a core competency for leaders and an essential skill for learning organizations. Effective coaching requires an intentional relationship that focuses on the skills, knowledge and experience that people need to maximize their potential and achieve their goals. If you are in a position to help others solve problems or achieve their goals (whether or not you are their supervisor), or if you have difficulty addressing performance issues, then this workshop is for you. The Coaching Edge™ is a two-day workshop that shows you how to set up, conduct and follow through on coaching conversations in a way that has a positive impact.

Benefits for Participants

You will learn a framework for building and maintaining coaching relationships that emphasizes authenticity and learning while producing concrete results. In addition to understanding the philosophy and principles that guide skillful coaches, you will learn how to:

• Build a coaching contract that establishes trust and openness
• Conduct effective coaching conversations, from identifying an issue to generating commitment to action and following through
• Give feedback that boosts confidence and forwards the action
• Encourage experimentation and risk taking
• Generate enthusiasm for the practice of continuous improvement
• Assess and develop your own coaching style
• Employ coaching techniques that produce tangible results for colleagues, staff, and senior leaders.

You will leave the workshop with greater confidence in your ability as a coach, and with a coaching plan for improving your coaching performance.

Benefits for Your Organization

Good coaches facilitate breakthrough thinking. Coaches in your organization will guide people into “thinking outside the box” and tapping into their own wisdom, giving them greater access to unexplored thoughts, assumptions, beliefs and experiences. This, in turn, will fuel the engine of effective action focused on achieving your organizational or community goals.

Workshop Topics

Foundational Skills for Coaching

• Inquiry
• Advocacy
• Observation Coaching EDGE Process
• Exploring the Territory
• Deciding on Commitments
• Go Implement
• Evaluate the Impact

Coaching Tools

• Problem Solving
• Appreciative Awareness
• Feedback
• Levels of Coaching
• Diagramming
• Gap Analysis