Introduction

Modern leadership increasingly requires managers to move beyond directive management toward enabling performance through coaching-based leadership. Coaching skills allow managers and leaders to develop people, address performance challenges, and build accountability without weakening authority or control. When applied effectively, coaching enhances engagement, decision quality, and long-term organisational capability.

This Coaching Skills for Managers and Leaders training course focuses on equipping managers with practical, ethical, and structured coaching skills that can be applied in daily leadership situations. The course clarifies the distinction between coaching and managing while showing how both can be integrated to strengthen performance and responsibility.

Participants will explore how coaching supports talent development, behavioural change, and continuous improvement within governance and accountability expectations.

Key focus areas include:

 

 

Key Learning Outcomes

At the end of this training course, participants will be able to:

 

Training Methodology

This Coaching Skills for Managers and Leaders training course uses practical, scenario-based learning to ensure immediate workplace application. Participants engage in guided discussions, coaching simulations, structured exercises, and real-world leadership scenarios focused on performance, accountability, and behavioural change within organisational contexts.

Coaching Skills for Managers and Leaders Programme

Who Should Attend?

This training course is ideal for professionals seeking to…

  • Strengthen leadership capability through coaching-based approaches
  • Improve team performance and accountability
  • Develop people without compromising managerial authority
  • Enhance communication and feedback effectiveness
  • Support talent development and behavioural change
  • Integrate coaching into everyday management practice

Course Outline

Day 1

Foundations of Coaching-Based Leadership

  • Coaching versus managing, mentoring, and directing
  • The role of coaching in modern leadership
  • Core principles and ethics of professional coaching
  • Coaching mindset and leadership self-awareness
  • Building trust and psychological safety
  • Identifying coaching opportunities in daily management
  • Self-assessment: leadership and coaching style
Day 2

Core Coaching Communication Skills

  • Active listening and presence in coaching conversations
  • Asking powerful and purposeful questions
  • Understanding assumptions, beliefs, and behaviour
  • Emotional intelligence in coaching interactions
  • Managing emotions and difficult conversations
  • Practical exercises: coaching dialogue simulations
Day 3

Coaching Models and Structured Conversations

  • Overview of coaching models (e.g., GROW, CLEAR, OSKAR)
  • Structuring effective coaching sessions
  • Goal setting and accountability in coaching
  • Supporting problem-solving and decision-making
  • Coaching for performance improvement
  • Practice sessions: applying coaching frameworks
Day 4

Coaching for Performance, Change, and Development

  • Coaching underperformance and capability gaps
  • Coaching high performers and talent development
  • Supporting change, resilience, and adaptability
  • Providing feedback and feedforward effectively
  • Managing resistance and limiting beliefs
  • Coaching across diverse personalities and cultures
  • Case studies: coaching in real organisational scenarios
Day 5

Embedding Coaching into Leadership Practice

  • Integrating coaching into daily management routines
  • Building a coaching culture within teams and organisations
  • Coaching in virtual and hybrid environments
  • Measuring the impact of coaching on performance
  • Ethical boundaries and coaching limitations
  • Developing a personal coaching action plan
  • Reflection, peer feedback, and continuous improvement

International Standards & Professional Alignment

Our training courses are aligned with internationally recognised professional standards and frameworks across leadership, strategy, finance, governance, risk, compliance, and audit. By integrating globally trusted models, we ensure learners develop practical, relevant, and industry-recognised capabilities.

Our trainings draw on leading international standards and professional frameworks, including ISO, ISACA, COSO, OECD, IIA, FATF, Basel, IFRS/ISSB, GRI, NIST, CPD, ILM and the OECD AI Principles. This alignment ensures consistency with global best practices across financial management, risk oversight, digital governance, sustainability, and strategic decision-making..

Designed in alignment with globally recognised professional bodies, our courses support continuous professional development, strengthen organisational capability, and provide clear pathways toward professional certifications valued worldwide.

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FAQs

This training course focuses on developing practical coaching skills that managers and leaders can apply in everyday leadership situations. It emphasises performance improvement, accountability, and people development within a managerial framework.  

Yes. The Coaching Skills for Managers and Leaders training course is designed for managers without prior coaching experience. It introduces structured coaching approaches in a clear, practical, and accessible manner.  

The training course clearly distinguishes coaching from mentoring and directing. Participants learn how to use coaching techniques while maintaining decision rights, performance accountability, and governance expectations.  

Yes. The course addresses coaching for underperformance, behavioural challenges, and resistance. It provides practical tools for managing difficult conversations while maintaining professional standards.  

Organisations benefit from improved performance management, stronger engagement, better decision ownership, and enhanced leadership capability. Coaching skills help embed accountability and continuous improvement across teams.  

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