Seminar: Motivating, Coaching, Counselling & Mentoring: Practical Tools for Effective Leadership & Develop Talent

Overview:

Introduction:

We often hear record-breaking athletes say; I owe it to my coach; That’s because however talented they are, athletes need a coach to improve their performance and competitiveness. Likewise, Companies and Organisations need to create a culture where coaching and feedback occur as a routine part of each day. Towards this strategic end. This innovative and motivating course, explains a structured approach to coaching which is effective whether a professional is working with a recruit or seeking improvement from an experienced player. Being less of a boss and more of a coach is fundamental to modern management. Urging people to do better won’t work unless they know how to do it better. Good coaching builds trust and a collaborative climate between professionals and teams.

Course Objectives:

At the end of this course the participants will be able to: 

• Understand that coaching and equipping, is one of the most important acts of leadership.
• Recognize that to get things done cost-effectively they must ‘grow’ people to their full potential.
• Offer useful coaching or suggestions on how to improve.
• Help others grow and develop (e.g., creates and monitors development plans; identifies training and developmental).
• Provide constructive feedback (specific, timely, accurate).
• Demonstrate an understanding of staff’s specific strengths and development needs, helps identify developmental priorities.
• Provide support and encouragement to others when they make mistakes or take developmental risks.
• Influence themselves and others to create productive behaviors that lead to optimal personal impact.
• Optimize their organization personal productivity and personal enjoyment.
• Promote enhanced job productivity, job satisfaction and pride
• Decide actions to apply the learning to their workplace
• Equip others with peak performance skills and develop pro-action plans

Targeted Audience:

• Managers
• Supervisors
• Team leaders
• HR staff

Course Outlines:

Unit 1: Strategic Equipping For Leadership:

• Changing Manager’s roles
• What is real Leadership?
• How to equip Leaders for excellence
• The pursuit of excellence
• Developing key management competencies to create excellence
• 12 Ways to Develop your Staff potential and talent
• The Manager as a Change agent
• The need for peak performance
• Activators, Behaviours and consequences
• Benefits for the organization, manager and performer

Unit 2: The Coaching / Motivation Process and Skills:

• Influencing the readiness to change
• The importance of handling change
• Gaining a personal commitment to change
• Raising their effectiveness through questioning
• Motivation as a lever
• Setting action-orientated performance goals
• End goals, performance goals and process goals
• Working your goal setting strategy
• Developing efficient Time management
• Learn to prioritize your time
• The importance of essential Listening skills
• Developing the cycle for continuous improvement

Unit 3: Coaching for Decisive Action:

• Adopting the approach, process, and skills as a way of life
• Self-coaching to fit your aims and objectives – personal discipline
• Improving your ability to make decisions
• Ten steps to vital decision making
• Choosing Pro-Active leadership
• Understand the Circle of control
• How to be pro-active in your relationships
• How to apply Persistence Performance
• Using the learned skills to apply at every level
• Ten essential qualities of a successful Corporate Executive