This course gives participants a clear experience of how coaching skills can positively impact relationships through better listening and communication, both at home and work.

With an experiential learning focus, participants learn a concept, see it modelled with others, then have the opportunity to practice coaching and receive co-worker feedback.

Foundations 1 is the first of 6 part series that provides an introduction to the techniques of coaching. Participants learn how coaching mindsets are different than managing mindsets, how to ask powerful questions and how listen on multiple levels.

Coaches often use imagery and metaphor, they inquire intuitively and have agile, conversational skills. In this section participants learn skills for bringing clarity. Through reframing and summarizing participants learn how to inspire self responsibility and accountability.

Dreaming is about envisioning possibility. It is the state of imagining what could be and enlisting yourself and others in a process of creation. In this coaching course, participants will develop skills to help themselves and their relationships take steps in discovering and living their unique values, identifying self-limiting beliefs, and creating their personalized vision for a resonate future. By the end of this course, managers will be able to create compelling visions for themselves and their teams in new ways.

Dreaming, in the end, is about the human art of imagination and execution. If we can imagine it, we can build it.

We are always in a perspective. And just because we’re in one doesn’t mean that is the truth. It is a truth.

This workshop will train participants to notice how their own perspectives shape their worlds, and how some perspectives are more powerful than others. Like anything, having the ability to notice and shift one’s point of view requires skill and a lot of creativity.  

We spend a lot of time in this workshop training people to think outside the box!

The 17th century French philosopher Descartes once said, “I think, therefore I am.” We believe that this is only half of it. Emotions make up the other half.

In this training, participants will expand their emotional range, vocabulary, and ability to simply “be with” strong emotions. To be a good coach relies far less on problem solving but far more on establishing relationships of trust and open communication. At the heart of this is the ability to empathize in a way that makes team members feel heard and seen.

In the end, isn’t this what we all want?

Being a coach-like manager requires incredible presence, self-awareness, and self-management. It also requires holding team members as naturally creative, resourceful, and whole.  This can be a delicate balance for coaches (who are also managers), who must often balance competing agendas at the same time.

This training will engage participants in the careful dance of coach and manager, and the dance of interchanging the skills learned in the 4 previous trainings: Foundations, Dreaming, Mindsets & Habits, and Emotional Literacy — sometimes done all at once.