The Manager as Coach Programme
Key details: This programme will run as 2 full day sessions. Participants will be emailed the dates set for attending.
Audience
- Academic staff
- Professional staff
- Research staff
- Research supervisors
Programme information
Introducing "The Manager as Coach" programme, designed to cultivate a coaching approach that elevates team and individual performance and fosters an inclusive and empowering environment.
This programme equips managers with essential coaching skills to nurture talent, encourage ownership, and inspire excellence across departments. By embracing a coaching mindset, you'll get the best from your team members, empowering them to reach their full potential and contribute to our university's success.
As a participant, you will gain practical tools to enhance communication, build confidence, and motivate colleagues to solve problems and tackle today's challenges positively.
Learning will be practical and immersive, giving you the confidence to positively impact our culture and create teams where everyone feels valued and motivated.
Target Audience
All staff who have existing people management responsibilities
Objectives
- Define coaching within the management context
- Review current approaches and develop non-directive approaches to managing our people
- Enhance the communication toolkit for managers
- Use coaching frameworks to facilitate productive conversations
- Share success and overcome barriers for the manager as coach
- Define boundaries and demonstrate ethics as manager/coach
- Develop use of other coaching tools (meta-language, incisive questions, scaled questions etc)
- Practice coaching with peers and receive feedback
Core
2 courses - you have to complete all of the following instances:
- The Manager as Coach Programme: Day 1
- The Manager as Coach Programme: Day 2