The leader as a coach – it really can work
Well-meaning leaders often understand coaching as giving their staff advice or specific instructions – yet that is precisely the opposite of coaching. In fact, coaches reflect along with their staff and help them develop their own personal abilities and potential to best effect.
The challenge for leaders and staff lies in clearly differentiating between leadership and coaching contexts, between a hierarchical relationship and a partner-like relationship. We join you in developing a multi-level coaching process for your organisational unit.
The participating leaders and staff are brought in at an early stage and develop the contents of the process together. This particularly intensive form of staff development creates a powerful combination of staff and managers’ skills and experience.
Key areas
- Brief overview of the roots, methods and possibilities of coaching
- Defining coaching in the context of organisations
- Leader/coach conflicts and resulting implications
- The coach’s investigative attitude
- Procedure and phases of a coaching interview
- Viewpoints in coaching
- Solution-focused v. problem-focused coaching
- Evaluative feedback questions
