
Course overview
An innovative approach to developing coaching skills and coaching culture. The origins of this approach lie in analysis of why sending line managers off on a course to learn to coach direct reports usually doesn’t work. The “sheep-dip” approach fails because it does not take into account the systemic nature of the relationship between line manager and the team and assumes wrongly that coaching is something that line managers do to people, rather than with them.
This course is based on the principles that:
- Coaching is a shared activity between line managers and their direct reports, where both influence the success of the learning process
- The most effective way to develop the skills of coaching and being coached is over time, with frequent opportunities for practice, mutual feedback and reflection
- Because coaching is a learning conversation, the learning conversation is an effective way to learn about coaching
The resource is made up of up to 12 modules, each a conversation between the line manager and his or her team about an aspect of coaching. Together, the modules provide a basis for effective, sustainable, collective learning, in short sessions of 60-90 minutes downloaded on demand.
The process can be facilitated by a trainer from outside the team; or the line manager can be trained to facilitate the learning process. Either way, it is expected that the team will manage its own learning sessions after it has completed a few modules.
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