Are you ready to move from directing to developing? This program is perfect for managers who want to unlock the full potential of their teams. You'll learn how to stop providing all the answers and start asking the right questions, transforming the simplest of conversations into powerful, performance-boosting opportunities.
This program is your first step toward becoming a leader who empowers, engages, and brings out the best in others through the power of coaching.
Your Coaching Journey
Our program, IDEAL Essentials: Lead with Coaching, is a complete journey delivered in two parts. Course 1 can be taken as a powerful standalone experience for immediate leadership impact, while Course 2 offers a deeper dive for those completing the full program microcredential.
- Course 1: Foundational Skills and Mindset for Developing Others. In this first course, you’ll discover what coaching is (and isn’t) and the immediate, powerful benefits it can provide to you as a leader.
- Course 2: Advanced Strategies and Practice for Developing Others. (Prerequisite: Course 1) In this second course, you’ll take a deeper dive. This part is all about elevating the quality and impact of your coaching conversations.
Why This Program?
While this program provides a powerful and immediate upgrade to your leadership toolkit, it also provides you with the IDEAL Essentials: Lead with Coaching Microcredential: recognition of your newfound knowledge and skills that you can share with your employer and professional network.
Plus, if you choose to continue your learning journey in coaching, your training hours from IDEAL Essentials: Lead with Coaching can be applied to IDEAL Impact: Coaching with Emotional Intelligence—the second step in the Weatherhead Coaching Certificate Pathway that leads toward the International Coaching Federation's (ICF) ACC credential.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the "what" and "why" of coaching, including the ethical framework and how to create true psychological safety with others.
- Shift your mindset from a directive "manager-who-tells" to a developmental "leader-who-asks."
- Apply the IDEAL Conversation Framework and the core skills of active listening, powerful questioning, and transforming insight into action through hands-on practice, expert demos, and structured feedback.
- Analyze how your organization's culture and context influence coaching conversations and adapt your approach accordingly.
- Understand the paradox, boundaries, and trickiness of being a manager who uses coaching..
- Manage your own well-being to sustain an effective and resilient coaching practice.
- Build a personal action plan to apply your new coaching skills immediately to develop and empower your team.
Who Should Attend
This program is ideal for new and experienced managers, team leaders, supervisors, and individual contributors who want to leverage foundational coaching skills to help develop others.
Begin building a stronger, more empowered team today. Register now for IDEAL Essentials: Lead with Coaching and get the skills you need to help others excel.