Coaching For Development For Middle-Level Managers

(Executive Coaching:  A Strategic Tool For Effective Leadership) 

Coaching for Development is a classroom-based, custom-designed program for delivery to organizations, and can be offered to all levels from first-line managers to more senior executives.  The program effectively builds coaching skills for the organization’s leaders, enhances initiatives aimed at managing change, develops emotional intelligence and fosters a climate of organization learning.  An important goal of this program is for the organization to become more self-sustaining in developing its leaders internally.

Program:

• Combination of classroom instruction, small group interaction, one-to-one feedback, reflection and discussion to teach the essential elements of coaching.
• Expand one’s emotional intelligence and support others in doing the same.
• Action learning through role-plays, self-observation, peer feedback and one-on-one staff feedback. (Video taping available if necessary to support breakthroughs.)
• Introduces the organization to a coaching framework that is easy to understand and easy to use.
• Emphasis on building the coaching relationship, continuing to develop one’s coaching skills after the program, and encouraging collaboration.
• Focus on the Strategic Implementation of the Organization’s vision through coaching and mentoring of subordinates and peers.

Best suited for:

• Middle-level managers who are charged with implementation of departmental or organizational visions and goals.
• Individuals who benefit from group interaction and are interested in better understanding themselves as coaches and improving their effectiveness in developing others.
• Participants may include leaders who want to improve their coaching skills, and/or internal coaches

Program is three days in length and includes one hour of telephone coaching.

For high potential middle-level managers, those who are moving into higher levels of leadership or for those in periods of complex transition, one-on-one coaching from three to six months is highly recommended.

Additionally, middle-level managers are able to move to other leadership development programs after completion of this program:

• Team Empowerment Program
• Authentic Leadership Intensive
• Breaking Down Silos—The Alignment Myth