Coaching Skills Workshop: “Coaching Conversations for Impact”

Duration: Half-day (3.5 hours) or Full-day (6.5 hours) Audience: Leaders, managers, or professionals seeking to build foundational coaching skills to empower others and foster accountability.

Management Strategies can contextualize a workshop specifically for your organization.

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Workshop Objectives

Participants will:

Understand the core principles of coaching and how it differs from mentoring or managing
Learn and practice a simple coaching framework (e.g., GROW or CLEAR)
Develop active listening, powerful questioning, and feedback skills
Build confidence to apply coaching in real workplace conversations.

Program Outline

1. Welcome & Workshop Overview (30 mins)

Introductions and expectations
What is coaching? Definitions and distinctions
The mindset of a coach: curiosity, trust, and non-directiveness

2. Core Coaching Skills (60–90 mins)

Active Listening: Levels of listening and presence
Powerful Questions: Open-ended, forward-focused, and reflective
Feedback & Challenge: Balancing support with stretch

Activity: Paired listening and questioning practice with feedback

3. Coaching Framework in Action (60–90 mins)

Introduction to the GROW or CLEAR model
Demonstration of a coaching conversation
Practice in triads (coach, coachee, observer) with real scenarios

Debrief: What worked, what felt challenging, what to refine

4. Embedding Coaching in Leadership (30–60 mins)

When to coach vs. when to direct
Coaching as a leadership habit
Building a coaching culture in teams

Reflection: Personal action plan – “How will I apply this next week?”

Optional Add-ons for Full-Day Format

Case studies or role-plays tailored to your organisation
Group coaching demonstration
Peer coaching circles or ongoing accountability pods