Coaching Skills Training Courses
Add coaching to your repertoire of skills to enhance your own practice, as well as that of your colleagues / teams.
These courses are for you if:
You’re a senior leader who is keen to develop your staff teams to be more solution-focused, self-reflective, confident and motivated practitioners
You’re responsible for developing a coaching programme in your organisation
You’re a team leader who wants to enhance your leadership and communication skills
You want to become an independent coach working for yourself
Benefits for you
You'll have increased resilience
You'll become more solution-focused
You'll become more effective at setting and achieving personal and work-based goals
You'll become a better communicator within and between teams
Self-coaching will improve a wide range of aspects of your practice / leadership
You’ll be more confident at managing both unexpected and planned ‘difficult’ conversations
Benefits for those you coach
Colleagues will become more solution-focused
Increased confidence in all aspects of their jobs
Better work-life balance and increased wellbeing
Workplace relationships are managed more effectively
You become skilled at helping others set and achieve work-place targets
Applying your coaching skills
Once trained, you’ll be able to use your coaching skills in one of 3 ways:
Formal coaching sessions
Informally, as part of your general communication toolkit. For example:
- empowering others to find their own solutions
- within appraisal / performance management meetings (increasing self-reflection, creating more meaningful targets and appropriate planning, etc.)
- planned and unplanned difficult conversations
- ensuring team meetings have a clearer focus and are more productive
Self-coaching
By using a coaching mindset, plus your skills and tools, you’ll be able to:- create more well-formed goals you can achieve
- speed up achievement of your goals
- help your overcome barriers to success and much more
Options
"An Introduction to Coaching"
1 Day Course
Be clear about what coaching is, where it can be applied, and what the key skills of coaching are.
This useful coaching overview will give staff who attend a positive and informative start to their involvement in any coaching programmes you create in your organization.
All delegates will have an opportunity to see a live coaching demonstration and try it for themselves.
"Coaching Skills For Leaders"
Accredited 4 Day* Course
This training includes an option to gain a Level 5 Certificate in Coaching & Mentoring, with the Institute of Leadership & Management.
It’s particularly useful for those responsible for developing coaching programmes within their organisations, anyone wanting to become an independent coach, or anyone wanting to add accredited coaching skills to their CV.
Bespoke In-house Training
Duration by Agreement
This is the most frequently requested training at Square Two.
Training sessions from 2 hours to 3 or more days can be developed depending on the stage of coaching development in your organization. Whether you’re new to coaching, need a refresher, or your staff are ready for something more advanced, we create coaching training to suit your needs.
* The days are non-consecutive, and are spread out across 3 or 4 months, with developmental coaching practice tasks and sessions to do between the face-to-face training days.
