Leadership and Management

Leader as Coach


Strengthen the way you lead, support and develop people through coaching.

This course builds practical coaching capability for leaders who want to improve everyday conversations, encourage ownership and help others grow in their roles.

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What to expect

Coaching is an important leadership capability in today's workplaces. It supports performance, development, engagement and accountability by helping people think through challenges, clarify goals and identify practical next steps.

During this course, you will explore coaching as a practical leadership approach that can be used in performance, goal setting, career development and work-related conversations. You will practise deep listening, powerful questioning and structured coaching models, then apply them to real workplace situations.

You will also develop coaching plans for people you want to support back at work.

Is this course for you


This course is ideal for managers, supervisors, team leaders, and professionals who want to make coaching a more natural and effective part of how they lead.

This course is suited to individuals who:

  • support others through performance, development, career, or work-related conversations
  • build confidence in applying coaching approaches to everyday leadership
  • improve the quality and impact of conversations with direct reports
  • develop a more consistent coaching style across their team

What you will explore

During this training course, you will develop the capability to use coaching as a core part of your leadership approach. The course focuses on coaching models, powerful questions, active listening and development conversations, helping participants improve the quality of their interactions with team members.

By the end of this training course, you should be able to:

  • Define coaching and explain its role in leadership
  • Apply a coaching approach to goal setting, career and work-related conversations
  • Use powerful questions and active listening to support insight and action
  • Apply appropriate coaching models to different workplace contexts
  • Adapt your coaching approach to suit team members at different stages of development

Where this course can take you


During this training course, you will explore coaching as a practical leadership approach and when it is most useful. You will build a coaching mindset that supports ownership, development and accountability, and develop techniques for deep listening, asking powerful questions and identifying where people need support to build capability.

The course also covers a structured approach for guiding coaching conversations from goals through to action, with coaching approaches suited to performance, goal setting, career and work-related discussions. You will take part in deliberate coaching practice with feedback, strengthening skills you can apply directly back at work.

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