Team Leadership Competencies - Coaching Skills for Effective Leadership

Coaching is an effective leadership tool. The role of a manager or leader is to direct, monitor and coach team members to perform to the standards and expectations required. The approach to coaching will depend on the development level of team members. 

It is the manager's responsibility to build talent and expand organisation capabilities. Both coaching and mentoring are key skills required of every manager to do just that. 

This program deals with the skills, techniques and intricacies of coaching in leading team members at different performance levels and help each and every one succeed.

CONTENTS
Coaching – an Eff ective Leadership Tool

• A Simple Way to Defi ne and Categorize Development Levels
• Categories of Coachees – Superstar, Twinkling and Dim-lit Stars
• Relationship between Development levels, Coaching and Achieving Performance
• Differences between Directing, Coaching and Mentoring
• Achieving Individual Potential - Diff erent Strokes for Diff erentFolks
• Cherish Diversity in Coaching
• Towards Better Performance

Coaching Skills and Techniques

• Coaching Skills – Instructional – a direct approach
• Coaching Skills – Inquiry – Use of questions and probes
• Coaching Skills – Advocacy – Use of suggestions
• Skills Practices on Various Coaching Skills and Techniques

A Systematic, Structured Approach to Coaching

• The Coaching Methodology and Framework
• Making Coaching Sustainable
• The Use of Action Planning
• The Importance of Structured Follow-up
• Use SMART Goals
• Effective Steps to Coaching
• A Demonstration of Structured Coaching and Application of Coaching Skills and Techniques

Scenario-based Coaching

• Examples of Coaching Using the Coaching Framework and Steps
• Demonstrations and Skills Practices

Summary and Conclusions