Essential Coaching Skills Be a skilled, congruent and inspirational role model A comprehensive 3 day programme of learning for leaders and managers Coaching is an art of deceptive simplicity and power. It is the process of helping people and teams to perform at the peak of their ability, to break through self-imposed limits and to explore their potential.

This 3 day programme will equip you with the essential coaching skills required for developing and releasing the talents of those around you. The training will have an immediate impact on your performance giving you the ability to apply the learning during short conversations, informal discussions or in more structured coaching situations.

As a manager you are probably already realising that you achieve more of your results through the efforts of others. Coaching is one of the most powerful methods available to you to create and sustain high performance in your organisation.

At R&A we recognise that coaching needs to be an attitude and not just a skill. We define coaching as “an art practiced in the form of an outcome focussed conversation, the purpose of which is to awaken possibility.” This means that there is potential in any conversation, no matter how short, to create beneficial change in the people around you.

Barriers to improved performance can exist at many levels. You will practice the skills and processes that will allow you to work with the values, beliefs, motivations, attitudes and behaviours of others.

You will become familiar with creating the conditions where individuals can generate their own solutions. Exploring not only coaching models but the underlying foundations of what has to be there to truly connect with and listen to a colleague in order for solutions to emerge.

During the programme you will practice, practice and practice, refining these skills by working with real issues, taking the learning from mind to muscle, from “doing coaching” to being a coach”. Following the programme coaching will become a natural part of your everyday spontaneous behaviour.

Course Content

You will develop skills to enable you to: Get the best from yourself and your team. Create a coaching culture. Help others set and achieve compelling goals. Build trust and rapport. Use powerful questions that release solutions. Listen more deeply and accurately. Respond to the body and the words. Identify the language patterns that prevent change. Reframe limiting beliefs or negative attitudes. Help others to discover the source of their motivations. Skilfully apply a variety of coaching models. Understand the role of the senses in gathering, storing and giving information.

The programme will be stimulating, demanding and fun. You will experience coaching others and being coached in a friendly and supportive environment.

The R&A consultants and master coaches work throughout the UK and Europe, helping businesses and individuals improve their performance. They have held senior management positions in industry and are aware of the need for training to make a measurable contribution to the success of a business.

This programme can be run within your company or individuals or groups of people can join us on one of our open programmes.

“The programme is truly inspiring and the trainer’s ability to nurture and develop the group over the few days was tremendous. I have learnt techniques which I can use not only as a coach, but in all aspects of life. Thoroughly recommended.”    “Real world examples, practical ideas and inspired advice, this programme is a guide to mastering the most important elements of leading, managing and achieving high performance”