Course detail: Coaching as a Leadership Skill for Today's Workplace

Course Description:

Leadership involves accomplishing today's work, but it also means building the capacity of people to handle tomorrow's challenges.

Most leaders have developed a range of ways to help others succeed-from providing clear direction and sharing expertise to teaching, mentoring, and solving problems alongside them. Coaching adds another tool: knowing when to step back from providing the answer and instead help someone strengthen their own thinking, judgment, and ability to solve problems.

In this highly practical, interactive two-day workshop, participants will explore coaching as one tool within a broader leadership toolkit. Rather than suggesting there is one "right" way to lead, the workshop focuses on increasing leadership range-recognizing when different approaches are useful and becoming more intentional about choosing among them.

Participants will practice straightforward skills they can apply in everyday leadership conversations: listening more effectively, asking questions that generate better thinking, resisting the impulse to immediately provide the solution, supporting accountability, and helping others learn from experience.

Participants bring the expertise about their work and the realities of their environment. This workshop brings a people-development lens and a set of practical skills for building greater capability and confidence in others.

The goal is simple: give leaders more ways to develop capable people who can think, make decisions, solve problems, and continue growing. When people have a greater role in their own thinking and development, they are more likely to take ownership of their work, buy into decisions and solutions, and bring greater motivation and commitment to what they do.

Core Competencies:
  • Leading People - Participants will lead and engage people to maximize organizational performance.
Objectives:
  • Recognize when to coach and when to use other leadership approaches.
  • Apply core coaching skills - including listening, curiosity, and effective questioning - to everyday leadership conversations.
  • Apply coaching techniques that strengthen others' judgment,problem-solving abilities, and confidence rather than automatically providinganswers or solutions.
  • Demonstrate coaching techniques that foster accountability,professional growth, ownership, motivation, and commitment.
Instructional Methods:
  • Facilitated discussion
  • Small group discussions and activities
  • Practical exercises and skills practice
  • Real-world coaching practice
Who Should Attend:
  • Whether you lead a team, mentor colleagues, or support employee development, this workshop provides practical coaching skills to help others grow, take ownership, and reach their potential.
  • This class is open to anyone who fits this description.
Course Requirements:
  • 100% participation and attendance
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 Session Information: SL27026W

Schedule: Every day, starting on 02/02/27 and ending on 02/03/27
Times: 08:00am-05:00pm CST
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Registration Fee : $375.00

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Participants are responsible for their own snacks, drinks, meals, lodging and travel. Please dress in layers, as the temperature in the room may be difficult to adjust. You will receive an email about 7 days prior to each training event providing you with additional information specific to that training event and location.

Instructors

Name Additional Resources
Teresa Schwab

Facility Detail

Edwards Campus
Regents Center 225
12600 Quivira Road
Overland Park, KS 66213
(913) 897-8420

Cancellation Policy

A refund less a $25.00 cancellation fee will be assessed for all cancellations made in writing prior to 10 days before the start of the event. After that time, no refunds will be made.