Leadership and Management

Leader as Coach


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.

You will explore coaching as a practical leadership approach that can be used in performance, goal setting, career development and work-related conversations.

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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 for managers, supervisors, team leaders and professionals who want to make coaching a more natural and effective part of how they lead. It is suited to people who need to support others through performance, development, career and work-related conversations.

This course is suited to individuals who want to:

  • support and develop others more effectively

  • apply a coaching approach in everyday leadership conversations

  • implement coaching practices or programs within their organisation

  • improve individual and team performance through coaching

What you will explore

During this training course, you will develop the knowledge and practical skills to coach and mentor others effectively in a workplace context. The course focuses on understanding coaching and mentoring frameworks, building core coaching capabilities, and applying structured techniques to support individual and team performance through purposeful, high-quality coaching conversations.

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
  • How to build a coaching mindset that supports ownership, development and accountability
  • Techniques for deep listening and asking powerful questions
  • Practical ways to identify where people need support to build capability
  • A structured approach for guiding coaching conversations from goals through to action
  • Coaching approaches for performance, goal setting, career and work-related conversations
  • Deliberate coaching practice with feedback to strengthen your skills back at work
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