Performance Coach Training
Performance Coach Training for Leadership
A joint venture with Sir John Whitmore's Performance Consultants International
Accredited Executive Coach Training
Image: Sir John Whitmore, Carol Wilson and James Wright with IKEA managers on the Performance Coach Training programme in association with PCI
We provide programmes based on Sir John Whitmore's best-selling, time honoured, “Coaching for Performance” and Carol Wilson’s "Best Practice in Performance Coaching: A Handbook for Leaders, Coaches, HR Professionals and Organizations" which can create a coaching culture in your organisation or enhance an existing coaching culture.
The challenges
Most managers now receive leadership training to some extent; the two challenges most consistently raised in this area are
- The training creates a picture of what makes a good leader but does not give executives the ‘how to do it’ part.
- Once executives leave the training room they leave the training behind and old habits take over
How to be an effective leader
At Performance Coach Training, we deal with the first challenge by ensuring that every module on our programme gives the words, phrases, attitudes and actions that will ensure a leadership concept is put into practice; our guiding principle is that if a module does not leave managers with a specific new skill that they can immediately take and use in their workplaces, that module does not get into the programme.
Our courses are practical, specific and related to real situations in the workplace based on Carol Wilson’s experience of 25 years as a corporate Board Director and MD, her 10 years of working closely with coaching style leader Sir Richard Branson, and the examples which are elicited from the participants during the training.
How to embed the training
There are two main reasons why training courses, however excellent, fail to take effect:
- Habits are powerful things and want everything to stay the same
- It is scientifically proven that only way human beings can learn is by making mistakes
Learning a new skill, whether how to lead or ride a bike, takes practice. Executives are unlikely to risk an awkward exchange with their teams by trying something new, however well it worked in the training room. We overcome this challenge by running all of our programmes in two or more segments, at least one month apart, with weekly practice between participants in between.
This practice can be done by phone for participants in different locations, and the final part can be delivered by conference call if it is impractical to fly participants into face to face training.
We constantly receive feedback that the most valuable part of the training was the practice in between. The benefits are:
- Participants grow their fluency and confidence in the safety of stretching themselves, taking risks and making their mistakes with another executive from the course
- Participants receive feedback from their practise partners
- Participants gain new awareness and insight through practice coaching sessions
- The practice costs the organisation nothing
One of the managers we trained, a senior corporate sales manager who had received a great deal of training over the years, said “all training should be run like this!”
The types of programmes
We always spend some time working out with the organisation what it is you want to achieve from the programme and work back from there. Benefits can be:
- To enhance your executives’ self awareness and enable them to tap into their innate resources and full potential as leaders
- To increase managers’ efficiency and time organisation by improving delegation skills
- To improve feedback skills
- To improve team cohesion through team coaching
- To provide managers with executive coaching skills and tools
- To train and accredit your internal coaches
- To train your internal trainers to become accredited in house coaches, coach trainers, assessors and mentors/supervisors
Style of our training programmes
The accreditation criteria, standards and ethics of the training reflect those of the UK's independent coaching body, The Association for Coaching, of which Sir John Whitmore is Honorary Vice President and Carol Wilson is Head of Accreditation.
The style of the training is learning by doing. This is a very practical approach in which participants will have the opportunity to practise both coaching and training and to get feedback from our trainers and each other during the programme.
Materials
We provide course materials at various levels from slides with notes attached, fully comprehensive manuals and workbooks, in-house handbooks written especially for your organisation and reduced price copies of Sir John Whitmore’s ‘Coaching for Performance’ and Carol Wilson’s ‘Best Practice in Performance Coaching’.
Monitoring and Evaluation
We are committed to ensuring that the impact of our interventions with your organisation is captured in a way that is meaningful to your business. We will work with you to develop a method that meets your specific requirements and gives you the information that you need throughout the programme.
Who will benefit from the course
- CEOs
- Directors
- Managers and Executives
- Team Leaders
- Internal Executive Coaches
- Learning & Development Trainers
Integrating your current management models
All modules will be specifically tailored to examples relevant to your organisation
We are skilled at integrating your existing leadership and coaching models and methods into our programmes so that investment in prior learning is not lost.
Course designer: Carol Wilson
All our trainers are highly experienced executive performance coaches and are chosen for their rapport skills and ability to create a safe but stimulating learning environment.
Professional speaker, writer and broadcaster Carol Wilson is Head of Accreditation at the Association for Coaching. After a career at board level in the entertainment industry, Carol has coached CEOs , trained over 500 executive coaches and was nominated for the AC Awards ‘Influence in Coaching’ and ‘Impact in Coaching’. Her book "Best Practice in Performance Coaching: A Handbook for Leaders, Coaches, HR Professionals and Organizations" is recommended by leading coaching authorities Anthony Grant, David Clutterbuck, Eric Parsloe, Professor David Grey, and a wide number of coaching and training magazines. It contains Forewords by Sir John Whitmore and Sir Richard Branson.
Performance Coaching for Leadership Certificate
Accredited Performance Coach Training Diploma
Accredited Performance Coach Train the Trainer Master Diploma
Accredited Open Performance Coaching Diploma
Advanced Executive Coaching Skills
Creating a coaching culture
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