Coaching as a Leadership Style Programme
This programme is a highly efficient, yet transformational introduction, to high impact coaching communication skills that underpin the needs of today’s leaders.
This programme will deliver the skills, knowledge and tools to help you:
- Clearly define coaching in alignment with internationally recognised competencies and standards.
- Clarify the difference between coaching and mentoring.
- Develop and embed an impactful coaching style in day-to-day leadership interactions.
- Elevate relationships and drive performance.
- Increase engagement, buy-in and ownership.
- Build respectful, trusting relationships.
- Facilitate growth and development.
- Form a foundation for a culture of high performance, independence, and accountability.
- Improve levels of self-awareness and personal responsibility.
- Leverage more fully the potential of team members.
- Provide team members with an increased sense of value, willingness to be creative and proactive.
- Improve business performance.
- Identify coachable moments in your context.
- Apply a coaching approach in the workplace from Day 1 due to the highly practical nature of the programme.
- Stay aligned to a coaching approach through our exclusive, simple and trademarked models.
- Examine how a coaching approach provides psychological safety and promotes increased trust and openness.
- Examine how coaching supports diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
- Cultivate a coaching leadership approach that effectively helps address organisational needs to mitigate psychosocial hazards.

This programme is ideal for anyone interested in creating or deepening a coaching culture in their organisation, leaders keen to build their coaching capability, or if you are seeking confidence and credibility as an internal and/or external Coach.
Defining coaching
- Demystify the difference between coaching, mentoring and other modalities.
- Gain clarity of globally recognised definition of coaching.
Neuroscience and Coaching
- Examines how coaching leverages neuroscience to create positive, sustainable behavioural change.
Foundations of Coaching
- Introduction to the underpinning foundations of coaching:
- Self-Discovery
- Belief In Potential
- Positive Feedback
- Coachee Driven
- Accountability
- Challenge
- Solutions Focussed
- Trust and Rapport
- Curiosity
- Examines the impact and benefit of coaching, including a highly self-reflective process, inclusive of habits and beliefs. Includes creation of a personal development plan.
Coaching Communication Skills
- Introduction, examination, and practice of core coaching communication skills:
- SSSHHH™ Model Speak with Impact/ Hear Deeply
- Reflecting, Bottom-Lining, Intuiting Permission
- Powerful Questioning
- Impactful Feedback
- Acknowledgment
Live Coaching – Demonstration and Participant Practice
- Demonstrations by experienced ICF credentialled executive coach
- Participants coaching exercises enabling the participants to experience both the role as the coach and the impact for the coachee.
PACT Model™
- Simple model that ensures leaders are adhering to coaching methodology and principles.
“Coachable Moments”
- Assists participants to recognise the myriad of “Coachable Moments” in their day-to-day roles and implement coaching immediately into the workplace.
Coachable Moment Session Structure
- Provides a structure to ensure focussed and highly effective coaching conversations.
Setting and Reviewing Actions
- Highlights how to set and review actions through a coaching approach.
This programme is offered as an in-house programme only. It is delivered over an approximate 3 month period with the following format:
- Day 1: Intensive Face-to-Face Workshop
- Day 2: Intensive Face-to-Face Workshop
- Group Learning Call 1 (1.5 hours)
- Group Learning Call 2 (1.5 hours)
- Day 3: Intensive Face-to-Face Workshop