Coaching Training for Managers

Do you want to unlock employee empowerment and create a safe environment to drive enhanced creativity, innovation, and engagement in your teams?

Do you want to improve organisational communication, group work, team collaboration and drive improved business performance?

Do you want to invest in your managers and team leaders and provide them with the training and coaching skills to lead and empower their teams to future success?

Whether you’re a manager or a leader, this programme will enhance your ability to motivate, inspire, and empower your team through effective coaching. With LMI’s unique C.O.A.C.H. process, you’ll uncover strategies to boost your leadership effectiveness and cultivate a more motivated, higher-performing, engaged workforce.

It involves acquiring critical coaching skills, such as active listening, questioning, and feedback, to improve communication and performance. “Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximise their performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.”

The Effective Coaching and Empowerment Programme

Very often, manager and leadership skills are used interchangeably. One assumes a great manager is also a great leader. A great manager excels at organising, planning, and executing tasks to meet specific goals. In contrast, a great leader inspires and motivates others, fostering a vision and guiding employees towards achieving long-term, often transformative, objectives. When managers enrol on an effective coaching and empowerment coaching programme, they emerge as empowering leaders. They can tap into the intrinsic attitude motivation of employees. Tombs of research over the decades have proven that this is the most effective form of motivation, and it also brings about long-term attitude and behavioural change

Key Coaching Techniques

Boost your listening skills: giving full attention to the team member and understanding their perspective. You'll appreciate the power and simplicity of active, empathetic listening. heard, and worthwhile source of innovation and seen effects. Open-ended questioning: encouraging team members to think critically. Feedback: Provide constructive feedback that is specific, timely, and actionable. COACH model framework: You'll also become proficient in applying a coaching model. Self-directed learning: encouraging team members to take ownership of their learning.

Higher Performance

Participants can attend open courses or courses where the training is delivered in person onsite at your business premises for larger groups. As participants progress and begin to use and practice the COACH model training, there will be a noticeable positive change in the depth of connections between the coach and employee. As a coaching mindset embeds into a manager's day-to-day practice throughout the business, communication, collaboration, and higher levels of creativity will become more prevalent.

increasing manager productivity

As you begin to have hands-on practice throughout the course and execute various coaching methods, you'll start to see strong team development. You'll focus on coaching each team member one-to-one and appreciate that every employee is unique and possesses unlimited potential. As you unlock more of this potential by helping employees learn, they'll take on more responsibilities and perform at a higher level than before, freeing more time up for you to focus on tasks and activities that drive the highest payoff in personal productivity.

Develop Future Talent

Adopting a coaching mindset and culture means developing your existing employees to acquire new skills. By raising their self-awareness and helping them learn and take on more responsibilities, you begin to build a future pipeline of potential leaders, supervisors and managers. As your team members become more personably responsible, you'll free up more time for you to focus on your own goals and the high-priority business goals of your organisation.

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Coaching Skills Training Course

Our coaching skills training course will meet the needs of busy managers and team leaders. The course is made up of a series of modules that cover crucial coaching skills and techniques. Each module includes a combination of theory, practice, knowledge checks, action plan exercises on the job execution, and feedback to ensure participants can apply their new skills and progress weekly. This programme at Transformational Leadership Consulting, will ensure that participants can meet every one or two weeks, depending on their work schedule. They progress through the six modules, which focus on 1. establishing a coaching and empowerment culture, 2. introduction to the COACH model and the first stage, Connection. 3. Identifying and shaping objectives. 4 Action planning 5. Establishing a compelling commitment to the plan. 6 Help – how to provide optimum support to keep employees on track.

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Comprehensive Practical Exercises and Support Resources

The course content is supported by lifetime access to online training materials, meaning that anyone who enrols in the programme has access to the learning resources as a paid employee of the company where they work. The group sessions will be highly interactive, allowing participants to learn from peer feedback.

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We'll focus on 6 core areas to effectively manage your life.

With so many Coaching Training Courses Available, How do I Choose the Right One?

The main thing to consider is to look for a course that is CPD accredited. Our coaching training for managers is CPD accredited, and has been developed by professionals with over 20+ years of experience. Due to this, your return on investment (R.O.I.) is measured through increased productivity, improved performance, and reduced staff turnover. Not only this, but coaching is evaluated regularly to ensure that it is meeting its intended objectives. 

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Marcus's leadership development programme was a game-changer for Healthxchange and equally for many of its clients. His expertise and dedication were evident from the very first branding workshop. The meticulously designed programme significantly improved staff leadership and development skills, with a direct impact on productivity and team dynamics. We immediately saw tangible results in a more positive work environment and improved overall motivation and performance. Marcus's approach goes beyond theory; he equips teams with the skills they need to excel. I would highly recommend Marcus if looking to invest in leadership development, increased staff productivity or stronger team building.
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Measuring Success and ROI

Coaching success can be measured through various metrics, including employee engagement, performance, and retention of top talent. You can use data and feedback to improve the coaching approach as it becomes embedded in your managers' daily mindset. In addition, you could also roll out an anonymous employee questionnaire before the coaching programme and identify key strategic areas within the business that developing a coaching culture could address. It will come as no surprise that a critical challenge for most companies is developing world-class communication skills. To make sure you're measuring success and ROI effectively, make sure to keep this channel of communication open with your employees to keep the feedback loop open. This will allow you to benchmark performance before the training, and then compare it to after.

Implementing Coaching in the Workplace

Coaching is integrated into the organisation’s culture and values. Managers and team leaders can be encouraged to use coaching skills in daily interactions with team members. Coaching can support performance management, employee development, and conflict resolution before they get out of hand.

Overcoming Common Coaching Challenges

One of the biggest challenges of coaching team members is finding the time. While scheduling it in a busy diary will mean making more time initially, the benefits to you and your employees are multiplied significantly in the medium and long term. When you focus on helping employees learn rather than advising or telling them what to do, you empower them to increase their responsibilities, take on more challenges, and solve their problems, freeing you up to focus on high-payoff activities. This gives back more time. Another challenge is developing the skills and confidence to coach effectively. Coaching can be challenging in a fast-paced or high-pressure work environment. To remain competitively agile, senior business leaders can provide support and resources to help middle managers and team leaders overcome these challenges. By investing in managers’ development, they are increasing the company’s overall productivity and easing the likelihood of improving business performance.

Achieve More Than You Ever Thought Possible

Useful tracking tools support LMI's Effective Coaching and Empowerment Course, ensuring you can see your team, managers, and supervisors' progress at every stage.

Frequently Asked Questions

We’ve answered some of the most frequently asked questions about Coaching Training for Managers below:

The Effective Coaching and Empowerment programme will equip managers, supervisors, internal coaches who need refresher training, and team leaders with the skills to empower others, from improving job performance to increasing job satisfaction, self-confidence, and personal goal setting. The manager as a coach principle can help to improve satisfaction company wide. If you’re interested in learning more, check out coaching training for managers: the top 10 tips. 

Coaching training supports managers to develop the ability to guide and empower their employees, improve team performance, enhance job satisfaction, and build stronger, more cohesive teams. It also aids in developing future leaders and addressing performance issues proactively.

Coaching training benefits all levels of management, from first-line supervisors and talented employees seeking their next move to senior leaders. It helps manage and develop teams or individuals. Check our blog on the styles of coaching and mentoring vs coaching more information. 

Key skills typically include active listening, asking powerful questions, providing constructive feedback, setting SMART goals, connecting with individual team members to build trust and rapport, using the COACH comprehensive framework, developing employee commitment, and positioning the manager as a central focal point of coaching, not advisory support.

Coaching training is delivered through various multi-sensory formats, including in-person workshops, online live workshops, one-on-one coaching, online written assessments, and audio podcasts for every module. The content is concise, and the programme is designed with the busy worker in mind. The programme lasts from 6 to 12 weeks, depending on the needs of the business and the optimum frequency of meetings.

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