Workshop 1 - Coaching Fundamentals and Active Listening
This workshop will ease you into what coaching is. It is ideal if you are just starting out or looking to revive old coaching skills. It also covers the core coaching competency of Active Listening and lays the foundation for growing your skills as a coach by introducing different kinds of reflective practice.
- • Understand what coaching is and the differences between coaching and other types of interventions
- • Know the benefits of coaching
- • Understand the skills required for effective coaching conversations and the high-level boundaries of coaching
- • Recognise and practice levels of listening
- • Explore reflective practice
Workshop 2 - Powerful Questions and Meaningful Goals
This workshop focuses on how to craft meaningful goals and use questions as a way to positively affect people’s thinking, as they move towards their goals.
- • Understand what questions really do and how they affect thinking
- • Recognise the coach does not need to have the same specialist knowledge as the person being coached
- • Recognise and create well-formed goals
- • Practise coaching for setting meaningful, realistic goals
Workshop 3 - Change Beyond Behaviours
This workshop looks at what lies behind behaviours and how we can help people to reframe their thinking by understanding positive psychology. We also practise working with values and see how they can bring balance when they align with our beliefs and behaviours.
- • Understand the complexities behind the behaviours you see and what forces may be shaping them
- • Explore positive psychology and its impact on how we coach
- • Use reframing to re-evaluate challenges people face and to shape more useful goals
- • Identify and recognise the importance of working with values
Workshop 4 - Working with Beliefs
Here we take a look at beliefs and understand where they come from and how they impact on our everyday decisions and life. We will practise techniques to help the people you work with tackle their limiting beliefs.
- • Understand how beliefs are formed and reinforced
- • Identify and challenge limiting beliefs
- • Help others to foster more helpful or empowering beliefs
Workshop 5 - Team Relationships and Conflict
In this workshop we take a look at how things that we assume are true affect our thoughts and behaviours. We also explore coaching with teams and dealing with conflict.
- • Learn useful presuppositions when you’re working with others
- • Understand psychological safety and other factors that affect team performance
- • Recognise constructive vs unhealthy conflict
- • Help mediate between two parties in conflict
Workshop 6 - Challenging and Boundaries
Here we look at patterns and questions that challenge generalisations, deletions and distortions in how an individual interprets the world. We also look at setting up the boundaries of coaching so that you can challenge someone effectively and respectfully.
- • Recognise language patterns that reveal beliefs and assumptions, and be able to challenge these where appropriate
- • Identify the conflicts that may exist in coaching relationships
- • Understand the relevant ethical considerations when coaching
- • Know how to create a contract to establish boundaries with the people you coach